the telegraph has been on a role the past few days huh...

Well, shoot, I'm sure surprised.

Well, yeah.

Looks around...

Aren't you??

1)

no, a biscuit

My jaw literally dropped reading this.
Deep down we hoped that these pro-Sattan liberals were doing it for the moral principle involved.
We could say, "Yes, they support Palestinian jihadists, Iraqi Ba'athists and hezb'allah - but they do it out of deep concern for the pain these people suffer"
Now we see he did it for 30 talents of silver - wow.

The money to bribe Galloway was diverted from the oil for food program.

yeah, think of all those hundreds of thousands of Iraqi kids who died from malnutrition "caused" by sanctions.

(Thanks for the hat tip Charles.)

No fucking shit.

I remember the days when British politicians would not only be ARRESTED for this, but would dance the Dangly Deever.

(sigh) Hopefully Tony Blair can sign a special death warrant, in this case...

Well, I was wondering when Senator Viqi SHesh would turn up.

BTW, Law Student, it's 30 pieces of silver.

Gosh, and he's not even French...

Whoops! Busted!

No "Sir" for Galloway, no way.

He will be lucky to stay alive after this revelation. His term in hell won't be quite so short.

The most awful thing about it is I'm sure he would have felt as he did even if he wasn't getting paid.

That said, unbelievable. Let's see how much attention the Beeb pays to this.

Gee, can't wait to hear how the BBC spins this one!

I say, send this guy over to Iraq to search for landmines. (Without any equipment.)

No remorse, no regard for your country, no honor, wishing for the death of your people and getting paid for it...
sounds like the left, sounds like saddam.

Tip of the iceberg, I shouldn't wonder.

#14
I think Fisk is stupid enough to do it for free. Maybe he thinks they'll keep alive when the great revolution comes.

We heard many times from the left that the motivation to remove Saddam was inspired by sinister financial conspiracies. I can't wait to hear their spin on this. It will be an explanation as fictional as a Michael Moore "documentary".

"OH HELL", was heard outside Scott Ritters house. Where inside he and little Mandy had been discussing how Minem is sooooo over.

Where's the Iraqi information minister when you need him? "There have been no bribes. The only mercanaries are the Americans. Whoops, the Americans and British. Damn, I forgot about the Australian mercanaries."

Heck, I'm finding it hard to believe. I doubt anti-war activists will believe it.

One has to ask the question: if a Leftist PM was taking money from Saddam in exchange for help, why shouldn't we suspect some of the higher-profile Saddamites in Congress (I am specificly refering to the Bagdhad boys, Jim McDermott (D-Wash), Mike Thompson (D-Cal), and David Bonior (D-Mich)) were likewise bribed?

Curious and curiouser, said Alice...

How will this play out in the UK? It looks like an open and shut case...but how do those of you who are familiar with British press and politics think this will turn out? I don't think anything at all will happen, and that this may be the last we hear of it.

Adjam, there's a link to scans of the original documents.

Apparently British elected officials do not have to meet the same financial transparency requirements as US legislators. How on earth else did this guy's take go unnoticed for 10 years?

makes you wonder who else on the moral high ground is on the take.
as for galloway, hanging is too good for him. i think the ol' st. lawrence treatment is in order.

#22, Just a guess, but I don't think their parliamentary ombudsmen processes are as stringent as ours.

I read some interesting articles in the British press when the Enron probe started about how such investigations could never happen in the UK.

Wow, who the hell needs WMD caches! Mark my words. We're going to find out more damaging information about the peace protestors and their nefarious motives. I can't wait to see the Scott Ritter blackmail video!

#27, The ultimate prize: the receipts for Blix's payoff!

They're idiots, they're misguided idealists who give aid and comfort to our enemies. And yet, why am I shocked (no sarcasm) to learn, for the umpteenth time, that they're utter crooks?

I can't wait to see the Scott Ritter blackmail video!

Uh, I think we'd be arrested for just looking at it.

The more I read about scandals like this, the more I am beginning to think this whole fight over the war IS about oil. The lefties want us to keep our nose out of it because it is THEIR oil/lucrative contracts.

Law Student: 1 talent of silver=$1,920.00
1 piece of silver=$0.64
30 pieces of silver was the price of a slave (Exodus 21:32), although you were probably referring to Judas in your post.

Sadly we abolished hanging for treason about 3 years ago. It's still life imprisonment though...or maybe we could just let the iraqi mothers whose kids died because corrupt hypocritical pieces of shit like him were stealing the money provided by the UK and US under the oil for food program tear the traitorous bastard to pieces.

At least Saddam was an openly despotic vile murderer...this piece of crap just defies belief...if he is allowed to take his seat in the house after this it is a disgrace.

Hang him high.

Life in prison? Aren't these the kinds who do their best work from prison, writing books about their struggle and so forth?

Uh, I think we'd be arrested for just looking at it.

I'm NOT into that. I just want to see the look on his face. Call it the "Oh" face. Or more to the point "Oh I'm so fucked" face. It would be priceless!

In days past. pinko Brits who spied for Mother Russia were allowed to retire to their estates in luxury and to write their memoirs, where they woud allege to be sorry for the deaths of those who they betrayed,while blaming their treason on the influence of some leftish college professor. Let's wish and hope for for the opportunity to see Galloway in the dock, having to answer for his disgraceful crimes.

And to think...all of these revelations about Galloway, France, Germany and Russia in less than two weeks. Friends, this is just the tip of the iceberg. As the great Al Jolson would say, "Folks, you ain't seen nothin' yet!"

Galloway is SO busted! Wonder what Sean Penn's take was? Wouldn't surprise me a bit to find certain American politicians on a "take" list somewhere in Iraq.

Actually on reflection..I would quite like to see him handed over to the ICC that he was sooooo keen on Tony Blair and Geore Bush being tried by...lets see £350,000 divided by lets be ludicrously generous and say it costs £100 to keep an Iraqi baby fully fed and clothed for a year....genocide of 3,500 children Georgie boy...mmmm..that would hang the peacenic movement out to dry for decades if we could make that happen.

Galloway is also the guy who uses money donated to cancer girl's fund to pay for his trip to Iraq. Yep. Nothing warms the heart of a hypocrit than to steal money from a dying girl's fund to pay for your political adventure. This payoff from 'Palace for Oil' surprise me not one bit.

wow. Wow. WOW.

I agree, #31, Galloway is worse than Saddam. Didn't Dante reserve the lowest circle for traitors?

New poll suggestion - who else will turn out to have been on the take?

(I vote it's Michael Moore.)

:Blink:

WHAT?

Yeah, like they really forged papers to implicate a guy on their side, and strategically left them for the coalition. Dream on.

HE IS IN SO MUCH TROUBLE. I hope.

Will be eager to see what happens to the dirtbag.

On a football theme,Mr Galloway was striding along The Great Western Road in his Kelvin constituancy,a coach full of Glasgow Rangers fans was stopped at a set of lights.
Spotting him the fans started chanting"where's your Saddam gone where's your Saddam gone?.Far far away,far far away".
The outraged M.P.called the police demanding that action should be taken against these hooligans.

A bemused desk Sargent is reported as saying"what do we charge them with,unlawful singing?".

Priceless.

He makes me ashamed to be Scot and a Glaswegian.

I cant wait to see him crushed. (and thats not like me.) No doubt idiotarian leader Tony Benn who is so revered here (UK) will be next. nothing about this on the bbc yet.

Meanwhile the rest of the UK press are strangely (or not) silent on this story. Here is the Beeb's "bio" of George.

He has fought a long campaign against sanctions on Iraq, and was an adamant opponent of the Gulf War and the military action in Afghanistan.

And why didn't Malkovitch follow through on his promise?

This is pretty funny:

Galloway hails fall of dictator

Mr Galloway said he was glad to see the end of Saddam, but that did not mean the war was justified. "The difference between me and Mr Bush and Mr Blair is that I am against all dictatorships all of the time not just some dictators some of the time," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

They found the "Iron Maiden" at the former Olympic compound of Uday's. I think it needs to be sharpened up.

He makes me ashamed to be Scot and a Glaswegian.

Don't feel too bad. Berkley is still, technically part of the US. But, as Arwen said, there is still hope.

:-)

malkovitch is awesome...

This is when I think it's appropriate to mention that when the UK abolished the death penalty, they left it on the statute books for treason in wartime (and for arson in a naval dockyard, but obviously that's not quite as relevant here). Unfortunately, I suspect the English courts will say the European Convention on Human Rights forbids capital punishment; given the leftwing law professors who drafted the ECHR, they'd probably be right.

"I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one."

Sort of like "I don't need oil, I take the bus."

Casualties of War

Anti-climax

But there was a feeling in the air. Both pro and anti-war sides in the Commons appeared united in their relief that this conflict seemed to be entering its final phase.

The release of tension was evident in the response to Iain Duncan Smith when he asked who he would accept the Iraqi surrender from.

"George Galloway" came the shout from the Labour backbenches.

The universal delight at this remark spoke volumes about the atmosphere in the chamber.

And the prime minister was wearing his finest cloak of humility.

Tony Blair

The British are so good at this sort of thing. Does he deny with a proper Oxford accent that identifies the college he attended? Will the charities he supports write him a letter of good character? At least he wont retire to Bagdad on the Pension of an Iraqi Major General.

Hehehe...easy on the British insults guys...Rachel Corrie, Berkeley et al ;-) ..... traitors are traitors..lets not let reflect one scumbags actions on the 45,000 British servicemen and women out there with US, Australian and Polish troops shall we?

#14,bigel. Fisk is on retainer to the Arab News and the House of Saud. Anyones guess on how he gets paid for whoring for Saddam, but I'll bet he never gets his last check.

Did the Telegraph have one of their reporters standing on a streetcorner when a cache of Iraqi Intelligence papers happened by? Or has something more covert take place?

Either way, I am sorely vexed. Why should the limabeans have all the fun in expunging their Fifth Columnists?

I was moving most of last week and was incommunibloggo so stop me if you guys have already talked this one to death, but--speaking of perfidy--did anybody read Mark Steyn's column in the Sun-Times of 4/13? Money grafs:

On the other hand, they're [France, Russia, Germany, Belgium and Canada] cheerfully on the side of TotalFinaElf, the Western corporation closest to Saddam Hussein. Total had secured development rights to 25 percent of Iraqi oil reserves, a deal that depended on Saddam remaining in power. TotalFinaElf's largest shareholder is a subsidiary of Montreal's Power Corp. Power Corp's co-chief executives are Paul Desmarais Jr., who sits on the Total board, and his brother Andre Desmarais. Andre Desmarais' father-in-law is the prime minister of Canada, Jean Chretien. Canada refused to join the war to liberate Iraq on ''principle.''

Got that? For months, the anti-war crowd has insisted that ''it's all about oil,'' that the only reason the Iraqi people were being ''liberated'' was so that the second biggest oil reserves in the world could be annexed in perpetuity by Dick Cheney and Halliburton and the rest of Bush's Texas oil patch gang. Instead, it turns out that, if it is all about oil, then the principal North American beneficiary of the continued enslavement of the Iraqi people is the family of the Canadian prime minister--that's to say, his daughter and his grandchildren.

Waddayaknow. The Stalinistas at ANSWER were right. It was all about the oil. How can you be on the left and not walk around with a paper bag over your head?

More lectures from French Canadians on morality and principle, please.

Holy Shiite!!!

#52,OverWatch. The Brits can trash Corrie, Berkeley, McDermot, ect all they want as long as its done in their own inimitable way. In fact I would suggest a competition, properly sanctioned of course. I will leave the rules to someone better qualified than i. Perhaps the International Assn. of Trash Chuckers can weigh in on this?

#54

This is how they were found

and one more fucking limey dig or slagging off of the British and I'm going to start worrying that all the shit talked by peacenic shithead about American being twofaced was true ;-) ...not really..bur lgf has a fair readership here in the UK..no need to make it look like you have nothing but distain for us ok?

How I found the papers in a looted foreign ministry office

#57 posted mine before I saw yours....not aimed at you :-)...sounds good to me

A grand whos got the most reds/islamoids/nazis under the bed-a-thon...all the proceeds going to pay for the cruise missiles needed for the next little joint Alice in Islamland jaunt...sounds good to me :-)

Galloway is drawing too much attention of late: Paid to be a traitor

THE world has produced some evil, twisted men throughout history. Saddam Hussein is one of them.

Treacherous Labour MP George Galloway is another.

The so-called Honourable Member for Glasgow Kelvin emerged last night as the paid mouthpiece for one of the most despicable regimes of torture and mass murder in modern times.

Papers found in the Iraqi capital — but never expected to see the light of day — prove Galloway was an employee of Saddam’s sadistic state machine.

In return for a gigantic £375,000-a-year, stolen from the impoverished Iraqi people, this traitor toured the world’s media proclaiming the Butcher of Baghdad a kind and decent human being.

As an honoured guest, he visited Saddam last year in his bomb-proof shelter far below the surface of the Iraqi desert.

[...]

Galloway shares a Glasgow flat with wife Aminah Abu-Zayyhad, a niece of PLO chief Yasser Arafat.

But it was his links with Saddam Hussein that really made him hated.

The tyrant always rolled out the red carpet whenever Galloway — dubbed the Honourable Member for Baghdad Central — dropped in.

Wow, wow, WOW!

Heck, I'm finding it hard to believe. I doubt anti-war activists will believe it.

Unless there is a trial ... Jail for treason tends to wake people up, especially the borderline "useful idiots". If he and some others see jail time, the next anti-war rally may number in the 100's rather than the thousands of feel good marchers out to get laid.

why shouldn't we suspect some of the higher-profile Saddamites in Congress (I am specificly refering to the Bagdhad boys, Jim McDermott (D-Wash), Mike Thompson (D-Cal), and David Bonior (D-Mich)) were likewise bribed?

3 Democrats? If any evidence pops up, their toast. The US hasn't had a trial for treason at that level in years ...

The more I read about scandals like this, the more I am beginning to think this whole fight over the war IS about oil. The lefties want us to keep our nose out of it because it is THEIR oil/lucrative contracts.

After 9/11, all bets are off. The US has made its own security job one. Any sweetheart deals that these guys may have struck are sacrificed. Thus the howling.

Call it the "Oh" face

More like the "Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" face. The 'Oh' face implies some mutual pleasure

#58: OverWatch

Here I go and change that nasty term, "limey," to something more innocuous like "limabean," and you go and get all huffy.

BTW, when are you going to send us those wog terrorists we've been trying to get our hands on these past four years? You know the ones I'm talking about? They're in London. Do you know how to spell e-x-t-r-a-d-i-t-i-o-n?

#58 OverWatch

If you don't think that us Yanks don't love ya, you bloomin limeys, then you just don't understand where you stand.

We will always stand by your side as long as we are friends. While it is true that occasionally we may toss a shovelful of dirt through the open window, you needn't worry.

You'll get to toss that dirt right back at us in due order.

#63 gary..

you're preaching to the choir as far as that goes...such are the rules in place..we don't historically extradite unless the death penalty is off the cards. This needs changing..or ideally we go back to the way we dealt with the fenian terrorists...don't arrest them - just order the SAS to shoot the bastards neatly through the throat and save you and us the costs of trials and extradition hearings.

As to the ones we have in custody..I think we are going to try a getaround witha couple of them and send them to a third party where they are wanted..then they arrest them off the plane and send them to you guys.

Anyway..we got you the the intel on James Ujama...and you gave him a pissy little sentance to get intel on our target so I guess something must have been worked out between your people and ours on Hamza

#53 gary bruce

I too have been wondering how it is that the newspapers are finding these papers, and how the intelligence services are involved.

#45

It (the article) would have been funnier if it were not for the fact that the writer sounded so serious. But enough about that blowhard, Galloway is a total discrase as a man, a British citizen, and a politcal leader in a democratic nation. If he can't be jailed, someone should at least pressure him to resign his seat in the House of Commons.

#58 OverWatch

Thanks for that article. If that is how this is happening, the coalition operation is totally fucking lame, worthy of a four-star cussing rant.

Well at least some of the information is getting out. I guess we gotta worry about the old pots and stuff.

#58 I for one love the Brits except the ones at the Mirror and most at the Guardian. Tony Benn and Galloway be DAMNED.

#58 I use to have my doubts about the Brit's, as it turned out that was my problem not the British - I thought Blair was a nimrod a few years back - as you can see I am batting .000 on things relating to Britian

Wife and I had planned on touring France next summer - there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that will happen we are coming over to see you all

hope you like gool 'ole American Dollars :)

OT:
Iraqi antiquity seized at U.S. airport

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- At least one piece from a looted Iraqi museum has been seized at a U.S. airport, an FBI official said Monday.

Customs agents discovered the item, officials said. They did not name the airport or provide any other details.

The Bureau of Customs and Immigration Enforcement indicated that no one has been arrested, but declined any comment on what was described as "an ongoing investigation."

The FBI said it has begun working with Interpol and other international law enforcement agencies, as well as museum curators and experts in the United States, to try to locate antiquities stolen from the unnamed museum in Baghdad.

Iraqi antiquity seized at U.S. airport

Isn't his last name a strong indication that he was born for GALLOWS (which he fully desrves) ?
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a native English speaker

I just hope they manage to nail McDermott on something like this. Even if they did find such evidence, given the idiots around here he'd still be more likely to be reelected than face any punishment.

Wowee!! He was getting the equivalent of well over a half million dollars a pop! What a disgusting excuse for a human being. I hope Blair's government goes after this guy hammer and tongs and makes a huge example of his perfidy.

I agree that this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure there are French and German pols who were also on Saddam's take. After all, when a technique works, the tendency is to keep on using it for all it's worth. I devoutly hope that no American Congressmen are found to be a members of this group of traitors, but if they are, we should show them no mercy.

Wouldn't you just love to have access to comparable Saudi documents? I can just imagine what's in them...

OverWatch -

I can well understand why this news would make you very cranky, but the posters on this blog are probably some of the most limey-loving bunches of folks you're ever likely to meet. I think that most of us are pretty distressed that this level of betrayal and cold-blooded hypocrisy has besmirched the honor of our closest ally. We would have much preferred to have had something like this come out about a Chiraqian salaud or a Deutscher schweinhund instead of a Johnny Bull. :-(

Slightly OT, and maybe this has been recently discussed elsewhere, but is the non-British Euro press picking up any of the French/German/Russian perfidy stories that have been coming out? Is there a French equivalent to this Telegraph guy about to break the dirt on Chiraq? (OK, the US Army probably isn't letting any Frenchmen near the relevant archives, but still.) Or is the same old game going on.

Susan (#23 and #24) Crooked U.S. politicians get around the financial reporting requirements just fine. Consider Ex-Rep. Traficant.

I hope this isn't taken as a slap against the Brits, cause I love those fiesty bastards....

BUT...Has anyone been watching British politics lately. The entire nation of Scotland, once the proud home of free market economics and enlightenment liberty, has degenerated into the saddest, most pathetic political entity in the UK (and that's saying something)

The only party up there is Left-Loony and Even-Lefter-and-Loonier, and when they speak in Commons it's invariably to ask when more funds are to be disbursed from the Treasury.

I saw Thatcher some years back saying how lucky we were here in America because we don't have to deal with a socialist party. She said that socialist ideas are an insidious poison that slowly warp and change people,and not for the better.

You couldn't find a better example of this than modern Scotland. Galloway is just par for that course.

Considering the greatness of that nation, this is sad, sad, sad, sad, sad.

#76 don't forget Torchy.

I agree Galloway should be tried by the ICC, for misusing valuable Iraqi funds that could otherwise have gone to the Glorious Struggle against the Amerikkkan Capitalist Imperialist Pigdogs, and their British poodles. In fact, it could be argued that the entire defeat of the mighty Super Special Republican Guard was due to the huge sums squirreled away by Zionist agent Galloway.

=P

/ GulGnu

-Stabil som fan!

Oh PLEEEEEEEZE let there be Bill and Hillary documents, Koffe, Ritter, Blix (hmm, why does he want to go back so bad?), oh jeez there's too many people I'd like to see in the files.

Galloway the ex-MP for Baghdad Central says the claims he was paid £375,000 is "black propaganda" and "intelligence hocus pocus", and plans to sue the Daily Telegraph.
Room for one more at Camp X-ray?

The left has no shame. They will lie that the documents were forged or taken out of context. Then they will claim that the documents are being used as a "distraction" to hide the greater crimes of neoconservatives, Zionists, Americans etc. Finally, they will argue that since both side were wrong, it did not matter which side you chose to be on. Those Englishmen who sold out their country to the communists are still honored by the establishment. I have no reason to believe that those who sold out to Arab despots will be called to account for their crimes.

Galloway is a labour peon and is the definition of the corruption of the left. He is PART OF THE PROBLEM as to why Scotland is still not INDEPENDENT. George worries about a fake people - The Palestinians - whilst THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND are trying to preserve their culture and gaelic language against English and 3rd world immigration.

[Link: www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com...]

#45 Iron Fist the Merciless...

Is that article for real? I read it. Twice. Here and there I seemed to pick up tones of irony, but I just couldn't tell for sure. Is it a joke, or does the writer really advocate secession? (Please, please, let them secede)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I will bet anyone here, 2 Bolivian pesos that the UK government will do exactly NOTHING about Galloway's crimes of high treason.

Any takers?

I will bet £2000.00 English pounds THEY DO NOTHING OTHER THAN call on him to resign/kick him out of the labour party - even then that is a long shot.

Reminds me of Jürgen Möllemann, another moustachioued Jew-hating weasel (this one in Germany) who mixes anti-Zionist politics with his Arab business connections.

#86 Crusade Now

I will bet £2000.00 English pounds THEY DO NOTHING OTHER THAN call on him to resign/kick him out of the labour party - even then that is a long shot.

I think they'll also have to silence the Telegraph and the Sun.

#88 Caton - The Sun recently had a Stop Asylum Madness Campaign and got 250,000 petitions. The UK govt still has its head up its ass on this issue. So all Galloway will have to do is find an alternative income. I would bet he emigrates to Jordan.

Reuters is reporting that Galloway is suing for libel

The problem with all this blog-surfing is that I never remember where I saw stuff.

Yesterday, I ran across a link to an article that discussed how horribly inept Iraqi intelligence officers were. How they spread secrets in open communications. ("Hey, Uday, know our inform Al-Chuck? Yeah, he just told me...") How they kept paperwork on everything. (Like Galloway's bribe receipts) And how they liked to take home secure laptops to surf the web. ("Did you see the memo on the laptop policy? I can get you a copy...Ummmmk.")

If anyone has that article, please post here or e-mail me. Mmmmmkay?

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND are trying to preserve their culture and gaelic language against English and 3rd world immigration.

Huh? The "indigenous people of Scotland" have been extinct for thousands of years, ever since the Scotii moved in there from Ireland.

And we have no idea if the Picts displaced anyone; I'd bet they did.

Reuters is reporting that Galloway is suing for libel

Producing the documents is an affirmative defense; you can't libel someone with the truth. Unless, of course, British libel laws are completely divorced from reality.

#21 That is "MP", not "PM". The PM is Blair.

#7 Korora the Penguin 4/21/2003 06:04PM PST

Well, I was wondering when Senator Viqi SHesh would turn up.

Heh heh... nice Star Wars reference...

Let the TREASON TRIALS begin.

I wonder how many ohter celebrity activists who went to Baghdad came away with a few dinars in their pockets (people such as Sean Penn and the 3 Democratic idiots from Congress).

re: 84 Stormi
I think the author is serious. I, too, thought I saw some traces of irony, but upon re-reading the article I realized that it was not irony, it was laughable self-pity.

OT:
For reaganite: UK EOD Techs May Have Been Executed

For zulubaby: Mugabe by Cox & Forkum

#92 Robert Crawford - hmmm so Goidelic gaelic is the same in Ireland and Scotland? The Scottish culture is the same as Ireland? As England? The history is the same? The Picts and Scots were united under Kenenth Mc Alpin in the 7th Century. The Picts language was still around in the 10th century - I believe that all the people of Scotland today would have Pictish genes so try again buddy!

Galloway is IRISH - he describes himself as having been born in the "Irish quarter" of Dundee - known as "tipperary". In fact Scotland is being clonised today and thanks to the Irish labour voters like Galloway who want home rule for Ireland and believe in IRA resistance but sqwark and squeal at any pro-Scottish actions. Even want ing independence for Scotland is "divisive". If it wasn't for hypocrites of Scottish Labourt there would have been independence 20 years ago. Galloway has been Socttish labour chairman since 1981. HE is the reason why Soctland isn't taking its place among the nations.

This link is for the the UK Parliament Register of Members' Interests 2002-2003
[Link: www.publications.parliament.uk...]

Wonder if George forgot something?

Hmm Robert #92 The scotti came from northern Ireland- Ulster. maybe the Picts dispalced the Scots into Ireland and then the Scotti came back and took their land back? What do u think?

Personally, I'll wait and see if they can actually trace any of the money to Galloway's accounts. Here is a simple explanation that would leave Galloway innocent :

1. Clever Iraqi operative studying English politics notices Galloway and his big mouth.

2. Decides to set up a little scam on Saddam.

3. Arranges a "secret meeting" with himself in England.

4. Appeals for money on behalf of Galloway.

5. To "protect" Galloway, it is necessary to set up a complicated financial scheme to hide the transactions.

6. At some point in the process, the money is diverted to our clever operative's account.

7. Operative continues to produce reports claiming he is directing Galloway and asking for more money.

All the evidence so far suggests that Saddam's regime was prone to wishful thinking. I'd take even genuine Iraqi documents with a grain of salt, a truckload for documents claiming major inteligence operations or other hard to verify (by Saddam) claims. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they find a memo or two by some Iraqi inteligence officer taking credit for 9/11 or for influencing it in some way just to try and score points with Saddam.

These are useful clues, but this kind of paper is little more than hearsay really.

#101

Not a bad scenario. Might be true.

Whatever happens, it demonstrates just how dangerous it is to schill for dictators.

phwest (#101)

Yes, there’s an obvious and logical scenario. Of course since your basing this conjecture on “little more than hearsay” I’m curious as to why you would come up with such a tenuous argument? Trying to protect the ever so gallant Mr. Galloway?

george galloway should be put on trial for treason and if found gulity he should be hanged. when he called for british troops not to fight when he spoke on an arab radio station that was legally treason now with this it can not be ignored any longer. this is the biggest problem i have with the labour party revival that happened people went out and voted for blair not the labour party and idiots like this got elected because of people ignorace about their local MPs

Short of these documents proving to be forgeries, his political career is over anyway. Even if nothing else is found, no documents, no money trail traced, no credible witnesses – it’s over for him politically (unless he moves to Louisiana where that kind of scandal is OK).

He’ll do fine in Public life where he’ll freeload off the choir, make book deals, do the speakers circuit, address rallies – because he’ll be a darling boy poster child of that crowd.

If there is justice to be done and guilt proven - I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent. Our valued British friends should not be reflected in this babbling protein sack.

Andrew Sullivan and Tim Blair are furiously blogging this story, if anyone's interested in further links/updates.

Hey! Less of the 'Brit' please. He's a Scot. As is President Blur and most of the Cabinet.

Well Galloway has just been on Sky News by phone 'totally refuting' the allegations and saying how he's the victim of a stitch up.

One funny moment - they have been showing the videos all day of his '94 (i think) meeting with Saddam where he goes on to say 'Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability and I want you to know we are with you'. The presenter asked him why he had been almost grovelling before the dictator & Galloway replied 'those comments were about the Iraqi people'!!

Right!

Oh please, please, pretty please, God, let Jim McDermott's name show up on that Mukhabarat payroll! If you just give me that, Lord, I'll go to church. I'll stop cussing. I'll stop drinking. I'll even stop asking for Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in a barrel of baby oil for my birthday if you make that happen...

Jeff, I think that last one is going a bit too far. Church, yes. No drink, OK. But no Rebecca in baby oil? Come on: being so compassionate, would God really ask that?

Hey, Amos, note I said "ASKING" for Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in a barrel of baby oil. Some prayers God hasn't seen fit to answer... :(

Jeff,

Keep praying, man. It's a worthy cause. B^)