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The King of Cuba (GALLOWAY!)
News of the World ^ | April 27, 2003

Posted on 04/26/2003 4:52:10 PM PDT by MadIvan


MISTRESS: Cuban beauty Judy

WIFE NUMBER ONE: With Elaine

WIFE NUMBER TWO: With Amineh
Is this where the Iraqi money disappeared?


GEORGE Galloway loves the high life and lays out huge sums of money on luxuries.

He has denied his spending power is funded by secret kickbacks from Iraq and said this week: "I have never solicited, nor would I have accepted had I been offered, any financial assistance of any kind from the Iraqi regime."

But all his mistress Judy knew was she was seeing more money than she could ever have imagined.

"George told me he would give me US dollars which everyone needs to survive here," she said. "One night at a restaurant he bought two bottles of wine that cost together almost 200 dollars." The average wage in Cuba is around 10 dollars a month.

Judy also recalled how Galloway paid for a lovenest and groomed her for a new life in Britain and said he dealt with a landlord called Orestes Aguirre.

He told us: "Senor Galloway came here with his Cuban girlfriend Judy. They said they wanted a place where they could be alone together.

Senor Galloway, he told me, ‘She is the most beautiful girl in all Cuba'. At first I only wanted to rent him a room for maybe 600 dollars a year but he insisted he wanted the house. Senor Galloway gave me 5,000 dollars in 100-dollar bills."

This week, Galloway was said to have received £375,000 a year kickbacks from the UN's "oil for food" programme. The programme dates back to 1995. But the papers do not say from what year Galloway is alleged to have received payments.

The papers hint that these payments could have begun after the MP appointed businessman Fawaz Abdullah Zureikat to the MP's Miriam campaign, which began in 1998.

Any high finance was lost on Judy.

"I remember George went to a cigar factory and spent 2,000 dollars on cigars to take back to Britain," she said. "

And he knew how to treat a woman. Our favourite place for dinner was the El Floridita. The waiters liked George, Nothing was ever too much."
THE secret sex and money-soaked lifestyle of traitor MP George Galloway can be revealed today.

The high-living MP, accused of taking £375,000 a year from Saddam Hussein to promote Iraq's murderous regime, travelled to Cuba and strutted the dirt-poor streets of Havana with a wallet full of cash in his Hugo Boss suits.

Believing he was safe from the eyes of his constituents, he took a secret mistress and splashed out money like water.

That lover, Judy Lonchan Lopez, said last night: "George was very important in Cuba. I'm not surprised he was friends with Saddam, because he was close to Fidel Castro."

Back home in Britain he was still married to first wife Elaine and already seeing the woman who would become wife No.2—striking Palestinian Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyadwe.

This week Galloway's political career will be officially terminated when he has the Labour Party whip withdrawn in the Commons for calling Tony Blair and George Bush ‘wolves' over the attack on Iraq.

The move will mean he can no longer use Labour Party offices and speak from the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

Secret

It's not a moment too soon. For a News of the World investigation reveals the full depth of Galloway's disgrace.

Our dossier on the MP contains evidence from ex-lover Judy who last night revealed that Galloway:

Judy, 26, said: "He met Fidel three times for dinner that I was aware of. I know one was in a restaurant and the others at official buildings."

Judy added that the dinners were business rather than pleasure, though she did not know the exact nature of that business.

"Fidel even gave him a painting by a Latin American artist as a present," she added.

"It was very important to George and he had it sent back to England, he was delighted with his present and told me it was very special."

Galloway's association with both the Iraqi and Cuban regimes goes back to the early 90s.

In 1994, a year before he met Judy, the MP was photographed in Baghdad presenting Saddam with a pennant.

According to documents said have been found bombed-out Iraq, by Boxing Day 1999 Galloway was getting a cut of "10 to 15 cents per barrel" on three million barrels of oil every six months.

This week Galloway threatened to sue for libel over kickback allegations. But no matter where the cash came from, Judy loved every minute.

"George also had a load of clothes brought over from England and when we went out he wanted me to wear them rather than Cuban clothes," she said. "He would insist I wore evening dresses when we were out in Havana for dinner.

"He would get a secretary in England to send clothes to me. He wanted me to get into the English way of dressing.

" He'd wear Hugo Boss suits and was very smart and I would wear dresses from Mango and other labels. He would also spend his money buying me perfumes by Givenchy."

Bizarrely, she added that she originally thought Galloway must be in the paper business because he would often bring in large donations of paper, including fax rolls "to help the people of Cuba."

Speaking through an interpreter, Judy went on: "I had not heard from George for a while and tried to contact him without success, but a few days later I got a visit from two men from the Technical Department of Investigations (Cuban secret police).

"They wanted to know what my relationship was to George. They said he was a very important person. I didn't know if George had sent them—he may have done."

Galloway has a £250,000 villa in Portugal with 10 acres of land and a three-storey detached house in Streatham, south London. He paid £220,000 for it in 1996. It is now estimated to be worth around £800,000.

Judy was just 18 when she began a 14-month affair with Galloway. He was 42 at the time. They met when she worked as a promotions girl at the a hotel in Havana.

Their affair began in 1995 and ended in 1997. During their time together, Galloway also introduced Judy to a young man he described as an Arab prince who was visiting Cuba. She said: "One day we were in a market and the Arab man spent 600 dollars on a papier maché elephant. The prince was very friendly with George."

Describing the first time she and George made love, she has said: publicly: "He took me to dinner in a restaurant where only tourists are allowed and after that we went to a friend's house and had sex.

"He desired me and I respected him. He was very passionate. He had learned some Spanish and he would say things like, ‘I adore your body', and, ‘You make me fly like a bird when I touch you'."

The rest of the time they communicated through his hand-held computerised translator. Judy was devastated when Galloway finally broke off all contact.

When he flew off the island he left behind a fax machine and political books in Judy's house. The fax was programmed with Labour Party and House of Commons telephone numbers—and even had a Glasgow sticker on the side.

Judy added: "I was told by the landlord of the house I was living in that as George had not come back I would have to move out," she said this weekend. "I had to go back to live with my mother."

Judy has since married a Cuban and is eight months' pregnant and living with mum.

It is a far cry from the hopes she once had to come to the UK. She said that Galloway had even begun preparing the paperwork. "He told me that when I came to England no one must know about us as it would cause him trouble," she added

Yesterday, Galloway denied having a sexual relationship with Judy, describing the allegation as "completely false."

He refused to make any detailed comment on our dossier of his lavish spending, but said: "I have never been given a painting or any other present from Fidel Castro."

Judy added forlornly: "I was looking forward to a life with George. I would like to see him again to ask him why he left me."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blair; corruption; galloway; georgegalloway; iraq; uk
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To: MadIvan
Truly bizarre!
21 posted on 04/26/2003 5:54:13 PM PDT by Carolina
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To: MadIvan
This week Galloway's political career will be officially terminated when he has the Labour Party whip withdrawn in the Commons for calling Tony Blair and George Bush ‘wolves' over the attack on Iraq.

There's something not quite right about the above sentence. It can't be the case, that Galloway is terminating his own political career. So, who's the "he"?

22 posted on 04/26/2003 5:57:41 PM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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To: codercpc
I can't believe what this guy has gotten away with over the years

By the end of next week, I fully expect to hear this guy hung out with Idi Amin and Pol Pot.

23 posted on 04/26/2003 5:59:14 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: MadIvan
FREEREPUBLIC.com - Discussion Threads - Search Term: "GALLOWAY"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/search?s=Galloway&ok=Search&q=deep&m=all&o=time&SX=3eab2b6dafcddd35c9787662f3060ec47702b27f

MP GEORGE GALLOWAY (Various FR Links)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898108/posts

GOOGLE Search Term: "GEORGE GALLOWAY"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22GEORGE+GALLOWAY%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
26 posted on 04/26/2003 6:24:00 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MadIvan
bump
27 posted on 04/26/2003 6:31:05 PM PDT by RippleFire
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To: MadIvan
All over the world, be careful when you rudely dump a woman you've been sleeping with -- she WILL figure out a way to make your life HELL
28 posted on 04/26/2003 6:38:00 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Heavily armed, easily bored, and off my medication)
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To: MinuteGal
..if Judy is the most beautiful woman..

Your thoughts were like mine. She looks like a man!
29 posted on 04/26/2003 6:57:38 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Beware the Fedayeen Rodham!)
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To: MinuteGal
That's what I was thinking. Cuban beauty?!?
30 posted on 04/26/2003 7:13:15 PM PDT by ImpotentRage
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To: Tribune7
Brilliant point! Has any one else noticed that all these relevations are coming from the UK only?

How much have the CIA and Military Intel. on US politicians?
31 posted on 04/26/2003 7:24:50 PM PDT by IJCR2
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To: IJCR2
There's another thread floating around out there in which an ex-KGB guy describes how the Soviets spread their money to western journalist and pols to spread the communist message. I thought that explained Peters Jennings and Arnett nicely.
32 posted on 04/26/2003 7:42:47 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: IJCR2; MadIvan
Yes, I noticed that the MI posts were VERY informative, and that the same news was NOT available to me via the USA media ....... so I requested to be on MI's Ping List.
I also very much enjoy reading MI's reactions from across the pond ... that also grants insight.
33 posted on 04/26/2003 8:20:25 PM PDT by patricia
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To: MadIvan
Bizarrely, she added that she originally thought Galloway must be in the paper business because he would often bring in large donations of paper, including fax rolls "to help the people of Cuba."

Sure would like to have gone through those "donations". No way is this rich guy going to be toting blank paper across the Atlantic.

34 posted on 04/26/2003 8:45:32 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: MadIvan; Cincinatus' Wife
Bizarrely, she added that she originally thought Galloway must be in the paper business because he would often bring in large donations of paper, including fax rolls "to help the people of Cuba."

???!!!!!????

35 posted on 04/26/2003 10:15:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: MadIvan; nickcarraway; piasa
The rest of the time they communicated through his hand-held computerised translator. Judy was devastated when Galloway finally broke off all contact.

How touching.

Yankee Doodle Castro***Once we had Fidel the heroic champion of Third World peoples against the capitalist exploiters. Now it's Fidel the capitalist exploiters' King Pimp ... "Psssst, Meester Canadian? Pssst, Herr German? Psssst, Signorino Italiano? … You wan' my seester? ... first time for you, meester ... here's photo ... only 12 years old ... Nice, hunh?"

Havana recently topped Bangkok as "child-sex capital of the world." Consider the human tragedy, the desperation of poor people driven to such things in such numbers, and after 43 years of "liberation" and "national dignity."

18,000 riddled by firing squads. Half a million incarcerated. 50,000 drowned or ripped apart by sharks in the Florida Straits. Thousands more slaughtered in Africa for Moscow. Two million exiled. And we wind up with a nation that in 1959 had a higher living standard than Belgium or Italy, had a lower infant mortality rate than France, had net immigration, as child prostitution capital of the world.

Friends, are you beginning to understand why we get a trifle "emotional" or "unreasonable" when we hear some imbecile professor or boneheaded politician yapping about "the good things" Castro has done for Cuba?

Imagine chumming it up with people like Daniel Pearl's murderers. U.S. citizens are doing it daily nowadays – on every "fact finding" junket and "trade delegation" to Havana. Thousands more will stand in line for the privilege at the U.S. Food & Agribusiness Exhibition at Havana's Palacio de las Convenciones Sept. 26-30. "As many as 20,000 visitors are expected," reports the Miami Herald. Quite a hoedown.

These folks, especially those who coo and gurgle at Cuba's "literacy rate," will likely hobnob with some charming people. As a special treat, they might meet Cuba's current "minister of education," Fernando Vecino Alegret. This gentleman has an interesting background. Most probably the Communist tour guides, smiling and eager to make your stay as pleasant as possible, will neglect to mention it.

But the book "Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia 1961-1973" does – and in some pretty explicit detail, I'm afraid. So I'll pass it along.

The authors describe Hanoi's "Cuba Project" at the Cu Loc POW camp known as "The Zoo" on the southwestern edge of Hanoi. In brief, this "Cuba Project " was a Joseph Mengelese experiment by Hanoi's Castroite allies to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human can endure before cracking. ***

36 posted on 04/26/2003 11:35:49 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: MadIvan
I thought mistresses and second wives were normally supposed to be more attractive than the old lady.
37 posted on 04/26/2003 11:48:15 PM PDT by RichInOC (Love might be blind, but lust usually puts its glasses on.)
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To: Rockpile
During the Revolutionary War, we would pass secret communtications written in invisible ink by sticking them not-so-randomly in reams of paper.
38 posted on 04/27/2003 12:16:17 AM PDT by stands2reason ("...und keine Eier.")
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To: Tribune7
"There's another thread floating around out there in which an ex-KGB guy describes..."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900981/posts
Galloway reminds me of something (SAYS FORMER KGB AGENT)
The Sunday Telegraph ^ | April 27, 2003 | Oleg Gordievsky
"agents of influence"
39 posted on 04/27/2003 4:10:37 AM PDT by backhoe (Has that Clinton "legacy" made you feel safer- yet?)
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To: backhoe
MASTER LIST Useless Nation's Oil for Food scam + galloway
40 posted on 04/27/2003 6:20:08 AM PDT by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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