Blair says allegations of party member's links to Saddam are "serious" (TRAITOR ALERT!!!)

AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 23 April 2003 | Unknown

[lugsoul]

Mabelkitty, I don't know how anyone can take your posts seriously when you just run away from any solid challenge to the basis for your contentions. You have no credibility.

[SkyPilot]

Thanks for the crosslink--HappyGal has a post as well--here is a picture Kevin Curry posted:

A cigar?

[jiggyboy]

Looks like it was breathless half-assed scandal-mongering to me.

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/884786.asp

[SkyPilot]

Here is a Galloway story by HappyGal---Here/

It mentions the allegation, but the breaking news is that Blair is taking is as a serious charge--not tabloid journalism.

The story either "has legs" or it dies. Right now, it is SPIN SPIN SPIN time for the left to see what happens next. Expect a lot of "shoot the messenger" - see "right wing" reference above to the newspaper.

[backhoe]

A cigar?

Very Clintonian... you have to wonder just where that cigar has been...

[DannyTN]

"Very Clintonian... you have to wonder just where that cigar has been... "

and what it's been used for...

[Gunrunner2]

Just visit this web site: http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/date.html
The spining and twisting and contortions of the looney anti-sanctions crowd as they try and defend this guy is entertaining, to say the least.
Imagine, people that supposedly care about the Iraqi people supporting someone who supported Saddam and was being bribed by him.
These people give new meaning to "the enemey of my enemy is my friend."
Their hatred of America knows no bounds.
(Sarcasm ON)
He didn't do it! You must know that. He is being set up by the evil Bush/Blair conspiracy.
The documents were planted.
Part of an elaborate scheme to go after one of the world's most compassionate people.
(Sarcasm off)

[Calvin Locke]

I caught part of a radio news blurb today saying Galloway's wife is the neice or something of Yassar Arafat.

[mewzilla]

Her name is Amireh Abu-Zayyad. She's Arafat's niece. I can't find out how long they've been married. Galloway told one interviewer last year that they'd been married 8 yrs, but that sounds a little fishy since Galloway wasn't divorced from his first wife until 1999.

[TD911]

Or maybe some compromising photos of Scott after going to the Baghdad Burger King.

[FreeTheHostages]

Yes, I eagerly await MadIvan's turn of phrase here. Please let it include the words "Scott Ritter too."

[CaptRon]

This guy looks like the old actor, Adolph Menjou.

[Peter Libra]

Then there are the most subjective of all. Even as keen as America's income tax authorities - the IRS, are British tax persons. Even in that questionable but popular soap opera cum real life T/V series- Coronation Street, they are shown as shrewd and impersonal. Absolutely relentless.

If Tony cannot get 'im one way he surely can do an Al Capone caper. INCOME TAX EVASION. Oh by the way, if that is what good living does to a 48 year old- whoa, he looks 60.

[Catspaw]

mabelkitty's right and you owe her an apology..  Sami al-Arian's son was ejected from the White House in June, 2001.

Do you need proof of Sami al-Arian's arrest?

Ejected Muslim gets an apology

 

The son of a USF professor had to leave a White House meeting.

©Associated Press

© St. Petersburg Times, published June 30, 2001

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The son of a USF professor had to leave a White House meeting.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush issued an apology Friday over the removal of Abdullah Al-Arian, son of a University of South Florida professor, from a White House meeting of Muslim officials.

"The president is very concerned that an action was taken that was wrong, inappropriate, and the president apologizes for it on behalf of the White House," press secretary Ari Fleischer said.

A uniformed Secret Service officer ordered Al-Arian, a congressional intern and Duke University senior, to leave a briefing Thursday of Muslim officials. Al-Arian's father, USF professor Sami Al-Arian, has been entangled in an investigation of terrorists. His uncle is Mazen Al-Najjar, a Palestinian who was jailed for three years on secret evidence the government said showed he had ties to terrorists. He was freed in December.

When Abdullah Al-Arian left the meeting, more than 20 Muslim leaders decided to walk out with him.

Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin later said his agency erred in ordering Al-Arian out. Once the Secret Service realized its mistake, it offered Al-Arian re-entry. But the group, which was there to hear about the president's plans to contract with religious groups to run soup kitchens, health clinics and other social services, declined.

"In this one instance, the Secret Service made a mistake. The president is concerned about it to the point where he does apologize," Fleischer said.

Abdullah Al-Arian was inundated for requests for interviews Friday and talked to CNN and Fox TV, among others.

The assistant deputy director of the Secret Service, Paul Irving, apologized for the misunderstanding in person, Al-Arian said, visiting him in the Capitol office of U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., where Al-Arian works as an intern.

"I have to be worried somewhat about what it means for my future," Al-Arian said of the incident that made him look like a suspect. "But I feel that it's something that I have to do now. It's given me a platform to speak -- something my uncle never had during three years in jail."

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who participated in Thursday's aborted meeting, welcomed Bush's apology and said, "We hope this will lead to better interaction between the White House and the Muslim community."

The council had sent Bush a letter after the incident asking him to meet personally with Muslim leaders and appoint a special White House liaison to the Muslim-American community to "dispel impressions within the Muslim community that there's some kind of exclusion from his policymaking circles," Hooper said.

[Illbay]

He also said that the photo of Galloway shows that he has "sad eyes."

[Russell Scott]

Galloway is headed to the Gallows.

[TLBSHOW]

Council on American-Islamic Relations

the terrorist front group in America...........

[aristeides]

Galloway told one interviewer last year that they'd been married 8 yrs, but that sounds a little fishy since Galloway wasn't divorced from his first wife until 1999.

Islam allows polygamy. Maybe Galloway secretly converted.

[aristeides]

Amireh Abu-Zayyad is a cell biologist at the University of Glasgow. Anybody know what sorts of research she does?

[Poohbah]

Obviously, he's sad because a moose bit his sister.