Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Georgie Galloway: Leftwing Liar Du Jour
Anyone who knows the record of the Marxist psycho and terrorist enabler Georgie Galloway, former Labour MP and now a member of Parliament who made up his own party (because Labour was too right wing for him and he was expelled), has been claiming that he never took any money or oil vouchers from Saddam Hussein, despite the fact that he was Saddam's greatest supporter in the West after the French.
A new congressional report, which accessed his secret bank accounts, found hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil payments from guess who - Saddam Hussein.
Georgie says it is a lie. Georgie is a liar. Georgie should be shot for treason.
US Senate 'finds Iraq oil cash in Galloway's wife's bank account'
The evidence of this? Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak:
Saddam's henchmen say they rewarded a 'friend'
This slug needs to be arrested and sent back here, first to be tried for crimes against this country. Then he needs to stand trial in Britain for working for the enemy. And this needs to be done now.
Anyone who knows the record of the Marxist psycho and terrorist enabler Georgie Galloway, former Labour MP and now a member of Parliament who made up his own party (because Labour was too right wing for him and he was expelled), has been claiming that he never took any money or oil vouchers from Saddam Hussein, despite the fact that he was Saddam's greatest supporter in the West after the French.
A new congressional report, which accessed his secret bank accounts, found hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil payments from guess who - Saddam Hussein.
Georgie says it is a lie. Georgie is a liar. Georgie should be shot for treason.
US Senate 'finds Iraq oil cash in Galloway's wife's bank account'
George Galloway faces possible criminal charges after a US Senate investigation tracked $150,000 (£85,000) in Iraqi oil money to his wife’s bank account in Jordan.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will refer the Respect Party MP for possible prosecution after concluding that he gave “false and misleading” testimony at his appearance before the panel in May.
The sub-committee claimed that, through intermediaries, Mr Galloway and the Mariam Appeal were granted eight allocations of Iraqi crude oil totalling 23 million barrels from 1999 to 2003.
It will also forward the new information to British authorities, saying it raised questions about Mr Galloway’s financial disclosure and the payment of illegal kickbacks to Iraq. “We have what we would call the smoking gun,” said Senator Norm Coleman, the sub-committee’s Republican chairman.
The sub-committee’s report, released today, was provoked by Mr Galloway’s clash with the senators — which he turned into a book entitled Mr Galloway goes to Washington. In that encounter, the anti-war MP vehemently denied receiving oil allocations from Iraq.
But the report provides bank account details tracking payments from an oil company through a Jordanian middleman to Mr Galloway’s nowestranged wife, Amineh Abu- Zayyad, and his Mariam Appeal fund.
“Galloway was anything but straight with the Congress. He was anything but straight with the American people. There was a lot of bombast. There was a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing,” Senator Coleman said. “We take very seriously the importance of testifying honestly before this committee . . .” he said. “We will forward matters relating to Galloway’s false and misleading statements to the proper authorities here and in Great Britain.”
A Senate aide said that Mr Galloway would be referred to the Justice Department for investigation of possible perjury, false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding — all “Class A” felonies carrying a sentence of up to five years and a $250,000 fine.
The evidence of this? Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak:
Saddam's henchmen say they rewarded a 'friend'
Some of the most senior members of Saddam Hussein’s regime contradicted George Galloway’s denials that he ever sought benefit from Iraqi oil, US investigators said yesterday.
The most damning fresh testimony came from Tariq Aziz, the former Deputy Prime Minister, who told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that Iraq granted Mr Galloway oil allocations to help to fund his Mariam Appeal. The investigators said Mr Aziz also told them that a letter allegedly recording a request by Mr Galloway for an increased “share of oil” is authentic. The letter, found in a government building, purports to be from the Iraqi Intelligence Service, dated January 2000.
Mr Galloway’s challenge to the letter’s authenticity was at the heart of a successful libel action he took against Telegraph Newspapers. The case is under appeal. Mr Galloway said his accusers from Saddam’s regime were all under sentence of death and Mr Aziz had been offered a deal to testify.
Taha Yasin Ramadan, the former Vice-President of Iraq, told the subcommittee that Mr Galloway had been granted oil allocations “because of his opinions about Iraq” and because he “wanted to lift the embargo against Iraq”. He added that Mr Galloway was “a friend of Iraq” and “needed to be compensated for his support”.
Mr Ramadan said: “Galloway needed money to pay for his actions” and “We gave him oil to sell to make the money.”
This slug needs to be arrested and sent back here, first to be tried for crimes against this country. Then he needs to stand trial in Britain for working for the enemy. And this needs to be done now.
