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Blair's traitors in Labour on Saddam's payroll.
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George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad.
A confidential memorandum sent to Saddam by his spy chief said that Mr Galloway asked an agent of the Mukhabarat secret service for a greater cut of Iraq's exports under the oil for food programme.
George Galloway: 'I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one'
He also said that Mr Galloway was profiting from food contracts and sought "exceptional" business deals. Mr Galloway has always denied receiving any financial assistance from Baghdad.
Asked to explain the document, he said yesterday: "Maybe it is the product of the same forgers who forged so many other things in this whole Iraq picture. Maybe The Daily Telegraph forged it. Who knows?"
When the letter from the head of the Iraqi intelligence service was read to him, he said: "The truth is I have never met, to the best of my knowledge, any member of Iraqi intelligence. I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one."
In the papers, which were found in the looted foreign ministry, Iraqi intelligence continually stresses the need for secrecy about Mr Galloway's alleged business links with the regime. One memo says that payments to him must be made under "commercial cover".
- Telegraph.co.uk
A confidential memorandum sent to Saddam by his spy chief said that Mr Galloway asked an agent of the Mukhabarat secret service for a greater cut of Iraq's exports under the oil for food programme.
George Galloway: 'I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one'
He also said that Mr Galloway was profiting from food contracts and sought "exceptional" business deals. Mr Galloway has always denied receiving any financial assistance from Baghdad.
Asked to explain the document, he said yesterday: "Maybe it is the product of the same forgers who forged so many other things in this whole Iraq picture. Maybe The Daily Telegraph forged it. Who knows?"
When the letter from the head of the Iraqi intelligence service was read to him, he said: "The truth is I have never met, to the best of my knowledge, any member of Iraqi intelligence. I have never in my life seen a barrel of oil, let alone owned, bought or sold one."
In the papers, which were found in the looted foreign ministry, Iraqi intelligence continually stresses the need for secrecy about Mr Galloway's alleged business links with the regime. One memo says that payments to him must be made under "commercial cover".
- Telegraph.co.uk
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No it was the taking the money from Saddam that made him a traitor.
Interesting that we dont see American firms or individuals being cited as well. You can bet any pre-invasion collusions will be covered up in typical Republican style. Iraqgate anyone? :rolleyes:
Depends when the money was paid, and under what circumstances - assuming that he did take the money of course. That is still to be proven.
Worth noting that he is claiming that he is suing for libel damages. Hope for his sake that he isn't using the same "Sword of Truth" that Jonathan Aitken used...
Mr Galloway denies taking money, He has not been formally charged, He has not been tried. This trial by media is wrong. He is an innocent man and you are slandering his name all over the place John. What happened to: You didn't believe the Iraqi's then so why now?
As for "Blair's Traitors" Blair is the biggest traitor in Britain! He's slowly but surely bringing this country to it's knees and he's trying to be President Blair. I.e. 4 weeks without going to see the Queen like he should everyweek. The Queen is said to have privatly expressed annoyance.
All criminals deny what they do RS. We had someone on the take with Iraq too. They kicked him out of office. It was before we went to war...so technically he wasn't a traitor.
Shot? The UK does not have the death penalty. Do you honestly believe that he should be shot? Well if we're shooting traitors - we'll need a fair few bullets.
Surely being sent to the liberated Iraq would be a privilege? Was that not what this war was for? To make it a safe place?
Who exactly was he betraying though? It seems some are all too happy to converse and deal with leaders such as Saddam Hussein when it suits them. Enough of the double standards and hypocrisy.
Well that's always been wildly apparent.
Oh and John he wouldn't be guilty of treason anyway!
However though it wouldnt surprise me if he had, as most politicans are opportunist and are in politics for they own gain.
My worry is this has undermined the anti-war movement and that the media will use it to discredit other people involved with the movement
But those facts wont be found you can bet or will be quickly destroyed. This is the great judge of the world passing its imperial sentence on foreign politicians but it wont touch Washington.
When are you gonna wake up and engage your brain...just because its on the telly doesnt mean its true.
The trouble is that the Telegraph is an incredibly right-wing newspaper heavily in favour of the war, and of basically killing anyone who isnt a fucking farmer, so Id believe them only marginally more than the Mail. Can they stand this letter up to internation scrutiny- can they hell. And, whoa, isnt it just convenient that anyone who could disprove this slander is dead? Or even if it can be disproved, the mud sticks- no smoke without fire is what the right-wing retards will think.
Grow up boy, Fox isnt the fountain of all knowledge FFS.
Ill tell you what else it wont touch- the fact that much of saddams weaponry was paid for by the British taxpayer. In the UK the Government bails out weapons manufacturers if a foreign nation defaults on payment, and, would you believe it, Saddam never paid up so we did instead. The British making the bullets and paying for the weapons that kills British soldiers. Its the same with Syria, and even more so with the brutal dictatorships in Myanmar, Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
As for galloway, he was always too left-wing for a lot of people, but its only ever the left-wingers who uncover the truth. Unfortunately the truth is inconvenient- Im waiting for Mark Thomas to be indicted in some sort of fraud, its gonna happen soon cos hes too dangerous to the elite to have loose.
Er, yes we do.
For traitors.
High treason (specifically treason against the crown) and espionage during wartime both technically still carry the death penalty, I believe, though it's been a while since we applied it. Peacetime espionage usually just causes a diplomatic incident (expulsion of the offender back to their country of origin).
Stupid law if you ask me though.
The legal system in this country is Innocent until proven guilty. Wait for the trial.
It was by hanging, I thought theyd got rid of it though
I'm sure it would breach the EU's Human Rights Legislation, perhaps that is what you are thinking of. I know that we cannot extradite someone if they will face the death penalty...
Lord "Haw Haw" - mouthpiece for a foriegn dictator.
Do you see the irony?
Is it? I thought it was well known what happened there and then? It was all out in the open wasnt it? Or is there something else you know that the rest of us dont?
Or was he acting in accordance with the wishes of his commander in chief and government as a whole in which case charges of treason would be ludicrus?
And I was saying that had US soldiers died from a chemical agent attack, agents which were provided by Rumsfield and co., the families of the deceased could be forgiven for branding their government 'traitor' for providing doomsday weapons to a mad dictator likely to turn on its master, just so it does the US' dirty war abroad.