Groundhog Day!

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Norm Coleman has had another pop at George Galloway. Is he angling for another kicking?



Story (http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,1600787,00.html)

“False and misleading testimony before the Subcommittee undermines the integrity of the Subcommittee. The additional evidence gathered by the Subcommittee clearly demonstrates that the testimony Mr. Galloway provided to the Subcommittee was false and misleading.”~Norm Coleman - Norm's press release (http://coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=775)

"It's Groundhog Day. I've already comprehensively dealt with these allegations – under oath in the High Court and the US Senate – to the Charity Commission and in innumerable media inquiries. It seems that Senator Coleman, raising them yet again, is suffering from acute attention deficit disorder. Hell clearly hath no fury than a US senator humiliated. It's a sneak revenge attack of the most contemptible kind."

"He has not had the decency to let me know the conclusions he and his cohorts have reached, nor even that he was holding a press conference to smear me. For a lawyer he has a strange concept of justice."~George Galloway - Galloway's response. (http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=905)

Origtinal Senate Committee hearing with vid. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4556113.stm)

I do love watching a good barney. :D

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Watch out for the fireworks. Gorgeous is looking to book a Hall in Minnesota to take Normie on.

Latest:

Galloway once more rejects oil allegations
27/10/2005

The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway, angrily rejected claims in the Volcker Report into the Iraq oil for food programme, that he had personally benefited from oil allocations. "How many times must I repeat this: I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have. I have never asked anyone to act for me - as Fawaz Zureikat, who is alleged to be my intermediary, has said repeatedly. Not least to this new inquiry. This is all a tissue of lies and a lie doesn't become a truth through repetition" he said.

"I have never heard of any of these companies names in the report - like Fortum - neither have I ever met an oil trader called Augusto Giangrandi, who was previously an anonymous source in the latest Senate report. This is all based on lies exorted from largely anonymous Iraqi officials," he added.

On the allegation that his former wife had received $120,000 from a company called Delta Services, allegedly owned by Burhan al-Chelabi, he said: "Again, I've never heard of this company. My wife has denied ever having received any money from Dr al-Chelabi."

Galloway reiterated what he said in innumerably interviews in the wake of the Senate report that his ex-wife Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, a research scientist, has spent five years researching childhood cancers in Iraq and their link to depleted uranium weapons and had raised funds to carry out that research.


Galloway was on his way to France tonight to meet with lawyers representing former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz. This follows a rebuttal from Aziz that he had implicated Galloway in the oil for food affair.

The message from Aziz - which may fatally undermine the Senate report into Galloway - was conveyed to the MP through the former Father of the House of Commons Tam Dalyell. Dalyell was given Aziz's denial in a telephone conversation from the lawyer representing the jailed Iraqi leader.


"I then talked to the French lawyers," said Galloway "who were first given the rebuttal by Mr Aziz's lawyers in Iraq. His alleged testimony is central to the recent Senate and Independent Inquiry reports. Without his statements there's only the usual 'anonymous sources' - who couldn't possibly have been there - to make the claim that I had conversations about oil allocations. I've always denied this and now the only man who could possibly support such a grotesque allegation has apparently shot it down in flames."

http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=908

So stitch that Normie. :D

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Never mind Cheney, Libby, Brown or Meirs, Galloway could bring bring your corrupt, incompetent government down. Especially if Coleman continues with his filthy slurs.