MAY 21, 2010 : (NY : SADDAM HUSSEIN OIL VOUCHER RECIPIENT, U.K. MP GEORGE GALLOWAY, ATTENDS FUNDRAISER IN BROOKLYN ---- see IHH, VIVA PALESTINA, BROOKLYNCELL) IHH and Erdogan receive continuous support from Galloway and Viva Palestina, particularly after VP partnered with IHH during its last convoy to Gaza in January [2010].
"The IHH organization was founded by the Turkish leader and hero of the Islamic world, Tayyip Erdogan," Galloway said during a fundraiser in Brooklyn May 21[, 2010]. Turkish writers indicate this is not true, but Galloway seems intent on heaping praise on the Turkish leader:
"How I wished, as we entered the Arab world, that the Arab countries had a leader like Erdogan. What a difference the Muslim world would be in if they were all led by Erdogans! I have never forgotten the performance at Davos, where in the face of the killer Peres, Erdogan called him a child killer, told him how good he was at killing children, and stood up, unhooked his microphone, and began to walk off the stage."
--------- "IHH's Deep, Longstanding Terror Ties," IPT News June 9, 2010, INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News ^ | June 8, 2010 http://www.investigativeproject.org/1998/ihhs-deep-longstanding-terror-ties
JANUARY 2004 : ("AL MADA LIST" IS PUBLISHED) The beneficiary list (found in the archives of the Iraqi Oil Ministry and translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute) should be deeply embarrassing to many prominent people. In the United States, those listed include Iraqi American businessman Shaker Al-Khaffaji, who put up $400,000 to produce a film by ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, which aimed to discredit weapons inspections in Iraq. Also, British Labor MP George Galloway, a strident foe of taking action against Saddam, is listed as a recipient or co-recipient of 19.5 million barrels. Other recipients include: former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua (12 million barrels); Patrick Maugein, CEO of the oil company Soco International and financial backer of French President Jacques Chirac (25 million); former French Ambassador to the United Nations Jean-Bernard Merimee (11 million); Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri (10 million); and Syrian businessman Farras Mustafa Tlass, the son of longtime Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass (6 million). Leith Shbeilat, chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Jordanian Parliament, received 15.5 million. 7 posted on 04/21/2004 2:35:40 AM PDT by kcvl
Galloway is apparently married to or living with Aminah Abu-Zayyhad, a neice of the filthy rich late PLO chief Yassir Arafat.