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(Live Thread) British Parliament member George Galloway to face oil-for-food accusers (Live Thread)
CNN.com ^ | 5/17/05 | Phil Hirschkorn

Posted on 05/17/2005 4:37:17 AM PDT by Libloather

British Parliament member to face oil-for-food accusers
From Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Posted: 0746 GMT (1546 HKT)


Galloway speaks to the media after arriving Monday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.

(CNN) -- British Parliament member George Galloway will face his accusers when he testifies Tuesday before a U.S. Senate panel probing the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.

Galloway is due to appear before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which stated in a report last week that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein granted him vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil between 2000 and 2003.

**SNIP**

Galloway is scheduled to appear late Tuesday morning in Washington as the final witness in a hearing that begins at 9:30 a.m. ET.

**SNIP**

Galloway, 51, who met with Saddam several times in the 1990s, has been a leading critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his alliance with U.S. President George Bush in the war with Iraq. He was re-elected on an anti-war platform earlier this month.

**SNIP**

A new report from Democrats on the Senate subcommittee concludes the United States ended up with a majority of the oil lifted from Iraq after vendors paid illicit surcharges of 10 cents to 30 cents a barrel to Saddam.

**SNIP**

The Democratic report found Bayoil shipped a lot of oil allocated to a company called Italtech run by Augusto Giangrandi, a sometime Florida resident with dual Chilean-Italian citizenship.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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This guy isn't a U.S. citizen so he can lie up a storm before the Senate. Video replays of Galloway getting off the plane showed that his mouth never really stops running.
1 posted on 05/17/2005 4:37:19 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Liz; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog; Mudboy Slim; MurryMom

Oil-for-food bump...


2 posted on 05/17/2005 4:38:05 AM PDT by Libloather (If it wernt for spellcheck, I'd have no check at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me...)
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To: Libloather
The committee hearing will give him a platform for bashing the USA and President Bush. It will be a test as to whether Norm Colman can maintain control and extract useful information. I'm sure that the demorates will use every opportunity during Galloway's "testimony" to Bush bash!
3 posted on 05/17/2005 4:43:45 AM PDT by RAY (They that do right are all heroes!)
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To: Libloather; Howlin; OXENinFLA; Mo1
The hearings will be webcast here.

www.hsgac.senate.gov

Look for Hearings ALL HEARINGS

Scroll down and look for the May 17th hearing....click on it.

Pass this info on to other freepers.

4 posted on 05/17/2005 4:44:49 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Libloather
Looks like G.Mason is wrong once again. I did say this POS was not going to appear.

Tuesday is popcorn day at the Mason household. ;)

5 posted on 05/17/2005 4:45:40 AM PDT by G.Mason ( Save the Republic from the shallow, demagogic sectarians.)
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To: Libloather

We need to import socialist liars? We don't have enough of our own?


6 posted on 05/17/2005 4:46:40 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Dog; Howlin

Is this going to be the Live thread?


7 posted on 05/17/2005 4:49:53 AM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: OXENinFLA
Is this going to be the Live thread?

Sure!

8 posted on 05/17/2005 4:50:52 AM PDT by Libloather (If it wernt for spellcheck, I'd have no check at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me...)
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To: Libloather; OXENinFLA; Dog

This looks like a good one to start it on!


9 posted on 05/17/2005 4:53:54 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: 1stMarylandRegiment; 1Mike; 3catsanadog; ~Vor~; ~Kim4VRWC's~; A CA Guy; A Citizen Reporter; ...

Live Thread!!!!


10 posted on 05/17/2005 4:54:56 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Libloather

Lib, since it's your thread, will you ask the Mods to make this the LIVE THREAD for us!


11 posted on 05/17/2005 4:55:29 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin; Mo1; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...

LIVE Thread..........starts @ 9:30 (ext)


12 posted on 05/17/2005 4:57:18 AM PDT by OXENinFLA ("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
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To: Dog

Is C-Span going to cover it, if you know?


13 posted on 05/17/2005 4:58:11 AM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: Howlin
I have to go pick up my granddaughter. I will be back in about 2 hours, and then can watch and participate.

Keep track of any good stuff that happens before I get back.

Oh, one more thing:

GO, NORM!!!

14 posted on 05/17/2005 4:58:19 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Howlin


Live thread! This is the middle of the night and I don't know what the hell I'm doing up!


15 posted on 05/17/2005 4:59:28 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: Libloather
*bump*
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16 posted on 05/17/2005 5:00:44 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry ("Harry Reid in stripes, I kinda like that image." -Tagline courtesy of DFU. Thanks!)
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To: Howlin

Tony Snow is also going to have him on his show (today?)


17 posted on 05/17/2005 5:02:09 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Dem & RINO senators have "eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner."---.Macbeth)
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To: Libloather

No doubt Senator Levin will be asking him some softball questions and suggesting it's all Bush's fault somehow.


18 posted on 05/17/2005 5:02:22 AM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: Carolinamom

Coleman or Galloway?


19 posted on 05/17/2005 5:02:47 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin

Galloway


20 posted on 05/17/2005 5:03:20 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Dem & RINO senators have "eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner."---.Macbeth)
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