05/18/05

George Galloway confronted the American senators who have accused him of accepting oil allocations from Saddam Hussein yesterday in one of the most extraordinary and ill-tempered exchanges seen on Capitol Hill. At one point the newly elected MP for Bethnal Green and Bow was accused of 'evasion' and of choosing to ignore the questions that were being put to him. Mr Galloway vehemently repeated his denials of having done anything wrong. He launched into a fierce attack on a series of individuals and institutions, including Sen Norm Coleman, the chairman of the sub-committee that is investigating him, the Republican party, the Senate, the US and British governments and unnamed forgers in Baghdad. ... In a bass voice rising with indignation to fill the august chamber, Mr Galloway insisted that he had been 'an opponent of Saddam when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.' 'Who paid me hundreds of thousand of dollars?' he asked. 'The answer is nobody...

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from Telegraph [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp