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Galloway faces new Iraq charges
The Washington Times ^ | 25 OCT 05 | David R. Sands

Posted on 10/25/2005 2:49:54 AM PDT by fifthvirginia

Maverick British lawmaker George Galloway solicited and received nearly $600,000 in profits for himself and a charity he ran from secret deals under the Iraq oil-for-food program, Senate investigators charged yesterday.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; galloway; georgegalloway; oilforfood; oilforfoodscandal; onsaddamspayroll; proterrorist; saddamite; scandal; socialist; traitor
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1 posted on 10/25/2005 2:49:55 AM PDT by fifthvirginia
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To: fifthvirginia

The big question here is why isn't the Brit government taking the lead in this? He's their elected official and yet the U. S. Senate is the entity that came up with all of the facts? Why didn't investigators in Britain come up with some of this information during his civil case?


2 posted on 10/25/2005 2:57:35 AM PDT by flying Elvis
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To: fifthvirginia
We've covered this "unindited criminal and terrorist-enabler in a $3,000 suit" for years:

-MP George Galloway- voice cries "peace," hand in Saddam's till...--

3 posted on 10/25/2005 3:23:11 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)
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To: flying Elvis
Amineh Abu-Zayyad, Mr. Galloway's wife

Makes one wonder what Mr. Galloway's real name is now.

Something like Abu Mohammed Jihad, perhaps?

MooseLimb women are do not marry infidels and live for very long.

4 posted on 10/25/2005 3:23:28 AM PDT by dinasour (Pajamahadeen)
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To: flying Elvis

In December, Mr Galloway won £150,000 [$280,000 USD] in libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over its separate claims he had received money from Saddam's regime. The paper is currently awaiting the result of its appeal against that ruling.

[Obviously, the case is still to be settled. As for the information, the British press hasn't said too much.]


5 posted on 10/25/2005 3:26:34 AM PDT by fifthvirginia (keeping their memory green)
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To: flying Elvis
The big question here is why isn't the Brit government taking the lead in this?

Because Galloway wasn't the only one.

6 posted on 10/25/2005 3:28:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: dinasour

They won't be married soon:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1592907,00.html

Like most Scots, Mr Galloway is very left wing, bordering on Trotskyite, but has said today that if the Senate require him,he will be on the first plane over to the US to answer charges. I suspect that if the 'evidence' the senate has uncovered is as good as the WMD 'evidence' he has little to fear.


7 posted on 10/25/2005 4:10:54 AM PDT by britemp
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To: flying Elvis

At a guess, because Galloway was a long term Labour MP and as such knows were at least some of the bodies are buried. If you were Blair, would you want him to have his day in court over this?


8 posted on 10/25/2005 4:11:48 AM PDT by English Nationalist
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To: britemp
Like most Scots, Mr Galloway is very left wing, bordering on Trotskyite,

WHAT???

Not to put too fine a point on it, that statement (in bold) is bollocks. Where do you get this from?

9 posted on 10/25/2005 4:28:07 AM PDT by Selous
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To: flying Elvis; fifthvirginia

<< The big question here is why isn't the Brit government taking the lead in this? He's their elected official and yet the U. S. Senate is the entity that came up with all of the facts? Why didn't investigators in Britain come up with some of this information during his civil case? >>

In case you haven't noticed, the brits are among the Western World's most cravenly-cowardly appeasers of terrorists and kow=tow-ers to those, like the execrable Galloway, that succor and profit from terrorists.


10 posted on 10/25/2005 4:42:27 AM PDT by Brian Allen (Patriotic [Immigrant] AMERICAN-American by choice - Christian and Aviator by Grace)
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To: Brian Allen

Actually the Brits have been our best ally in the War on Terror in terms of troops and material. Blair has risked his own political future for the sake of doing the right thing. Yes, the average Brit isn't very enthusiastic about it, yet they allow their government to continue to support us. In the final measure, however, in terms of enthusiasm, the Poles beat everyone, hands down. ;)


11 posted on 10/25/2005 4:53:01 AM PDT by flying Elvis
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To: Selous

Maybe he meant the Scottish National Party, who were so left wing in their nuclear freeze days, they made Neil Kinnock look like Thatcher.


13 posted on 10/25/2005 5:11:43 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: fifthvirginia

Next time he's here visiting Hanoi Jane, he'll get free room and board.


14 posted on 10/25/2005 5:51:42 AM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: fifthvirginia

So who are you going to believe......

Mr Galloway or Mr Aziz?

Where's Baghdad Bob when you need him?


15 posted on 10/25/2005 5:57:09 AM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: Brian Allen

Hey thats right !!!

While thousands of French soldiers put their lives ont the line in Iraq, the British soldiers stay at home and do nothing !!!

Or maybe not, and you are talking out of your ass.


16 posted on 10/25/2005 6:00:06 AM PDT by Axlrose
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To: Senator Goldwater
LOL !!

Yes, the SNP has always been more lefty than nationalist. And Scotland certainly has its share of trots and similar trash. I was just taking issue with the "most Scots" bit.

17 posted on 10/25/2005 6:21:50 AM PDT by Selous
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To: dinasour

Muslim women are not to marry non-muslim men at all (even if they convert). Muslim men are permitted to marry a non-muslim woman, if she converts. So say the Imam at Ask the Imam.


18 posted on 10/25/2005 6:35:51 AM PDT by weegee (To understand the left is to rationalize how abortion can be a birthright.)
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To: Selous

Yes, we wouldn't want to tar all of our Hibernian brothers with the same left wing brush.

After all, Caledonia gave the world Adam Smith.


19 posted on 10/25/2005 6:54:49 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: britemp
I suspect that if the 'evidence' the senate has uncovered is as good as the WMD 'evidence' he has little to fear.

You mean the WMD evidence from Clinton? Or, Britain? Or the UN? Can't you be more specific?

Are you Moby?

20 posted on 10/25/2005 8:08:24 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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