Today, pro-terrorist antisemitic MP George Galloway will confront the “Christian fundamentalists and Zionist activists” of the United States Senate: Showdown looms on Capitol Hill as Galloway talks tough.

A BRITISH MP will make an unprecedented appearance on Capitol Hill this morning to confront a panel of US senators who have accused him of being in the pay of Saddam Hussein.

George Galloway and the 13 senators are expected to trade angry charges when they come face to face in a televised clash that pits a man accused of being an apologist for Saddam with some of the former Iraqi dictator’s fiercest critics.

Last week the seven Republicans and six Democrats on the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations claimed to have uncovered “significant evidence” that Mr Galloway was allocated millions of barrels of oil by Saddam’s regime as it systematically abused the UN’s Oil-for-Food programme.

But Mr Galloway, the former Labour MP who won an upset victory as an antiwar Respect Party candidate in the general election, was in fighting form yesterday as he prepared to board an aircraft at Heathrow.

“I am going to accuse them of being involved in a huge diversion from the real issues in Iraq, which are the theft of billions of dollars worth of Iraq’s wealth by the United States of America and its corporations, and the deaths of more than 100,000 people in Iraq, the destruction of the country, the opening of the doors to Islamic extremism of the al-Qaeda variety, tremendous crimes they have committed in Iraq,” he said.

When he arrived in Washington, he added: “I have no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neocon George Bush who is pro-war. I come not as the accused but as the accuser.”

UPDATE at 5/17/05 8:00:32 am:

A live video feed is here: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Hat tip: Damian Penny.)