I'm going to give Senate both barrels, says defiant Galloway

[emad]

May 13, 2005


From James Bone in New York and Elaine Monaghan in Washington



GEORGE GALLOWAY will confront a US Senate committee in Washington next week over its charge that he received an allocation of 20 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

The MP, who won the Bethnal Green & Bow seat as an antiwar candidate in the general election, accepted an invitation to testify next Tuesday before the Senate permanent sub-committee on investigations to answer its allegations.

“I’ll be there to give them both barrels — verbal guns, of course, not oil — assuming we get the visas. I welcome the opportunity to clear my name,” Mr Galloway said. “My first words will be, ‘Senator, it’s a pity that we are having this interview after you have found me guilty. Even in Kafka there was the semblance of a trial.’”

Mr Galloway dismissed what the Senate committee described as “substantial evidence” that he had oil dealings with Iraq. “The hearing will begin promptly at 9.30am and there will be a witness chair and microphone available for Mr Galloway’s use,” a committee spokesman said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1610109,00.html

GALLOWAY won over £150,000 damages from The Telegraph newspaper for repeating a libel started by the CHRISTIAN MONITOR about his Oil-for-Fraud involvement.

Wonder how that evidence will go down with the Senate next week? Maybe he's sue them too...

[realFedUp]

1. You go brother!

We need more Galloways....

[emad]

2. US senators will get 'good hiding' pledges Galloway

US senators will get 'good hiding' pledges Galloway
By Ben Russell and Andrew Buncombe in Washington
13 May 2005
The Independent

George Galloway pledged that he would give a "bloody good hiding" to a US Senate committee over accusations that he was granted allocations for millions of barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein's regime.

Mr Galloway said he would fly to Washington next week to defend himself in person against allegations about the UN's oil-for-food programme published by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The anti-war Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow denied claims in the committee's report that Iraqi documents and interviews with senior figures in Saddam's regime showed he was granted allocations of oil under the programme.

He denounced the committee for publishing the claims without giving him the opportunity to answer the allegations. He said: "Even in Kafka there was a trial of sorts."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=637997

[pennylane100]

3. does anyone know what day next week.

I must tivo it.

[biscotti]

4. The article in

the Independent says Tuesday.

[emad]

5. Yep. Tuesday 17th. Hope he brings his lawyer with him and sweeps

the hotel room first incase Junior has bugged it....

[ClassWarrior]

6. Kick ass, Mr. MP!!

NGU.