Posted on 10/27/2005 4:07:14 PM PDT by 1066AD
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The Times October 28, 2005
UN team links more oil cash to Galloway wife's bank account From James Bone in New York
Amina Naji Abu Zayyad, George Galloway's estranged wife (DWAYNE SENIOR)
::nobreak::GEORGE GALLOWAY faced new questions last night after a UN inquiry tracked additional payments of Iraqi oil money into his wife’s bank account.
Days after a US Senate committee tracked a $150,000 (£84,000) payment to the MP’s now estranged Palestinian wife, the UN inquiry reported that Amina Naji Abu Zayyad had earlier received a series of transfers totalling $120,000.
The revelation increases the pressure on the vocal anti-war politician, whom the report says was nicknamed “Abu Mariam” by the Iraqis, a reference to his anti-sanctions campaign, the Mariam Appeal.
The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow already faces a parliamentary ethics inquiry and possible criminal charges for making “false or misleading” statements during his celebrated confrontation with US Senators in May.
The new details of Mr Galloway’s alleged involvement in the oil-for-food scandal were contained in a 620-page report issued at the end of an 18-month UN inquiry by a panel led by Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
The report also contained details of an unexplained payment of 20,000 Swiss francs (£8,800) to the son of Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary- General. And Jean-Bernard Merimée, France’s former UN Ambassador, admitted receiving $165,725 in commissions on an Iraqi oil sale in January 2002 while serving as a special adviser to Mr Annan.
M Merrimée told investigators that Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former Deputy Prime Minister, had offered him the commissions because he was a “fair negotiator” as Paris’s UN envoy in setting up the oil-for-food system in the mid-1990s.
The report found that Marc Rich & Co financed oil purchases from Iraq and the associated kickbacks for the son of a French MP shortly after the company’s founder received a controversial pardon from President Clinton.
In all, about half the 4,500 companies that bought oil or supplied humanitarian goods under the UN scheme are suspected of having paid illegal kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein government. But only one oil company and 26 humanitarian suppliers actually admitted doing so.
The Volcker report cited Iraqi Oil Ministry records showing that Mr Galloway received allocations of million of barrels of oil to support the Mariam Appeal. Allocations of more than 18 million barrels went to Mr Galloway directly or indirectly through his Jordanian friend Fawaz Zureikat, the report says. Mr Zureikat paid $434,000 to the Mariam Appeal.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations alleged this week that Mr Zureikat had also transferred $150,000 to Mr Galloway’s wife on August 3, 2000.
The Volcker inquiry tracks additional payments to Ms Abu Zayyad from a British-Iraqi businessman and prominent supporter of the Conservative Party named Burhan Chalabi. The report says that Mr Chalabi received an allocation of four million barrels of oil from Iraq on December 17, 1999, for “Galloway’s campaign”.
Delta Services, Mr Chalabi’s company, received $472,228 in commission payments on the allocation from the Fortum oil company. “Soon after each deposit, a series of payments totalling over $120,000 were transferred from the Delta Services bank account to the bank account of . . . Mr Galloway’s wife,” the report concludes.
Mr Chalabi also allegedly made two payments totalling over $150,000 to accounts apparently belonging to Mudhafar Amin, then Iraq’s chargé d’affaires in London, Mr Chalabi could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Mr Galloway told the UN panel that his wife denied that she had ever received $120,000 from Mr Chalabi or anyone else. Ms Abu Zayyad told the Senate committee she had never received “any proceeds of any oil deals”.
Yesterday Mr Galloway angrily rejected Mr Volcker's charges that he personally had benefited from Iraqi oil sales and said that he had never heard of Delta Services, which allegedly made payments to his wife. “This is all a tissue of lies and a lie doesn't become a truth through repetition,” he said.
But Senator Norm Coleman, Republican chairman of the Senate committee, noted that the Volcker report “completely supports” the findings of the Senate investigation.
“The [UN] Independent Inquiry Committee relied on parallel information and documents and arrived at the same conclusions we did: Galloway solicited financial assistance from the Hussein regime, his wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars in connection with oil-for-food deals, and his political arm also received hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Senator Coleman said.
The UN panel also tracks a new payment of 20,000 Swiss francs to Kojo Annan, the son of the UN secretary-general, from Cotecna, the Swiss company he helped to obtain a UN contract in Iraq.
The report says $135,000 went from Cotecna to a company called Kynaston Worldwide Ltd, owned by Michael Wilson, Kojo Annan’s childhood friend and fellow Cotecna executive. Two years later, Kynaston transferred 20,000 francs to an account in the name of Vevey Sport, a football club in which Kojo Annan had invested, “for the benefit of Mr Annan”.
NO GALLOWAY FOR ENGLAND!
How about "No Blood money for oily turnip-heads!" ?
A.A.C.
Scooter's client...
I wish I hadn't been busy and had been paying more attention, but this %$#& appears to be right out of the Dems playbook.
It's the UNron scandal! (You heard it here first)
NO BLOOD MONEY FOR OIL!
THE GALLOWS FOR GALLOWAY!
http://www.georgegalloway.com/
There's a link on this site to a video of Galloway's testimony before the US Senate sub-committee.
He testified before a US Senate committee of his own free will and took an oath before that committee to tell the truth. That is perjury regardless of his nationality.
Maybe because all traitors are basically greedy, immoral, unethical cowards.
This man is used to bullying his way by using exaggerated rhetoric in a loud and falsely angry way.
He is a genuine traitor, a Saddam sympathizer, a money grubber willing to help deny the Iraqi people food by being a part of an oil scam and in general, a cowardly traitor.
He is a poster boy for the terrorists.
And every BIT as cowardly as the islamo-facists are.
"What would you wager they are all friends of the Clintons?"
We already know that Marc Rich is.
Someone posted in one of the threads here at FR that Joe Wilson
and Valerie Plame were also very close friends of the Clinton's.
I guess it's true what they say " There's always more than one rat in a nest".
Seems lately everytime the dots have been connected and a trail
followed it's ended up each time on the Clinton's doorstep.
Their crimes lead in so many different directions and so many people involved,
yet no-one comes forward and spills their guts, so their silence must
have something to do with the 1600 FBI files the Clinton's 'acquired'.
God forbid, if Clinton had become the US Ambassador to the
UN this may never have been discovered.
Sorry, the bridge is now in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Yet their tools, the MSM, have many people seriously believing that Republicans have more of a "climate of corruption" than they do. As Michael Moore loves to say, Americans are "stupid". The problem is that he his co-conspirators take advantage of that because they know all they have to do is spoon feed them sound-bites and out-of-context deliberate distortions and lies and people will adopt that view and believe they're "informed".
Like "the government blew up the levy in New Orleans to get rid of the black people".
As far as the Secretary General's job he was said to be interested in, if his "Bill Clinton: Savior Of The World Foundation" flops, don't be surprised if he exploits his pathological charm to pursue that job. I can't imagine that that evil pair have not joked about her being president and him the Secretary General at the same time and all the "progress" they could effect.
How many hundreds of times did the Clintons and their partners in crime arrogantly answer "I don't recall" under questioning. They couldn't remember dozens of conversations and events yet were supposed to smart and competent at running the country.
If Libby had answered the same way there would have been nothing to indict him on. But he would have been crucified, whereas the Clinton Gang got a wink and a nod as to how clever they were to act above the law, since the liberals are always justified in any behavior by virtue of their general superiority.
"I can't imagine that that evil pair have not joked about her being president and him the Secretary General at the same time and all the "progress" they could effect".
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May the Good Lord help us all if that should ever happen.
Michael Moore, that's right, he's also lining his pockets from the FFO scandal, forgot about him today when having some heated discussions about the Libby indictment.
When I sit and think of how many crimes the evil duo have committed between them and got away with most it makes me want to reach for the bottle and drink myself stupid. I just cannot see how they've managed to fool so many, and when you go down and list their crimes one by one their faithful followers (idiots) still can't see what they've done wrong and have some glib answer that's supposed to make it all right and everything legal.
I hope and pray that Peter Paul can nail her so she serves a long sentence of hard labour for the campaign finance fraud she committed and maybe next time he decides to rape someone he'll meet up with someone like Lorena Bobbitt before they throw him in the poky for his crimes.
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