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Aziz denies naming British MP in oil probe

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 1 November 2005
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Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has denied telling investigators that a maverick British lawmaker personally profited from the United Nations’ oil-for-food program for Iraq.

By Reuters

US congressional investigators said this week they had evidence that George Galloway had profited from the defunct UN program created to protect Iraqis from the harsh effects of sanctions against their Government.

The report said Mr Aziz, under questioning by the subcommittee, said he had discussed oil allocations with Mr Galloway and confirmed a letter in which the British Member of Parliament requested a bigger oil allocation.

"These are lies ... he [Mr Aziz] denied this," Mr Aziz’s lawyer, Badia Aref, said.

"It is part of a media campaign aimed at smearing Galloway’s reputation."

Mr Aref says Mr Aziz confirms that Iraq has given $A60,00 to the Mariam Appeal cancer charity set up by Mr Galloway, but only to help sick Iraqi children.

He says Mr Aziz, now in jail in Iraq, had made the comments in a questioning session some three months ago during which Mr Aziz was asked 110 questions about Mr Galloway.

The report said Mr Galloway personally solicited and was granted oil allocations from the Iraqi Government for 23 million barrels from 1999 to 2003.

It said Mr Galloway’s wife received about $A200,000 in connection with the allocations and the Mariam fund received at least $A595,000.

Mr Galloway himself told the committee that he was not an oil trader and had never spoken to Mr Aziz about Iraq providing financial support for the Mariam Appeal.

He has also rejected the latest US accusations that he profited from the oil-for-food program.

Mr Aref says Mr Aziz refuses to "testify against anyone, including former president Saddam Hussein", whose trial started this month but has been adjourned until November.

Mr Aziz, a Christian who was the public face of Saddam’s regime abroad, was arrested after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

No formal charges have been brought against him yet.

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  • They hate anyone who tells the truth, especially when it is about them. Lies are the only currency they know, so they have to spread them out as thickly as they can, hoping some will stick. They have not forgiven him for what he did to them earlier this year; exposing their lies. And this without consulting notes and while looking directly into a camera.

  • Anyone who wants to know how bad he is (aside from licking Assad’s ass and Saddam’s before him) just needs to read this and connect the dots for themselves:

    http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/PSIREPORTGallowayOct05FINAL.pdf

    I’ve read this document front to back three times and have followed all of this closely - Galloway is a crooked schmuck and I certainly wouldn’t want him in my camp.

    • you reference a report from the U.S. Senate?

      dont you have a reliable source?

    • Ha Ha ha -Quality.

    • Take off your tin-foil hat for an hour and actually read the report. Bank statements don’t lie. If you question the validity of Aziz’s interviews, because they were somehow a product of the evil americans, discard them. Now go ahead and tell me how Fawaz Zureikat, Galloway’s personal representative in Iraq, just happened to have close to 800 thousand dropped in to his bank acount, and tell me why 150K went straight to Galloway’s wife. Then tell me how roughly 400K went to Miriam Appeal. Now explain to me why Galloway didn’t declair this to the British government, which he is mandated to do. any money his wife earns needs to be recorded. It was not. Why? Because Galloway is a crook, and sadly, the left seems to have embraced this crook.

      This money, remember, was meant to be used for the sick and starving in Iraq. So Galloway was licking Assad’s ass while he was bilking the starving children of Iraq.

      Isn’t that precious?

  • I don’t understand this at all. As I know of the OFF program it was administred by the United States under the auspices of the UN. How is it that Galloway turned to the Iraqi government for this alleged oil? Where were the US auditors when this was supposedly happenning?

  • Michael Moore Owns Halliburton Stock

    World Net Daily| November 2 2005

    "I don’t own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed.

    He’s right. He doesn’t own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

    If you want to see Moore’s own signed Schedule D declaring his capital gains and losses where his stock ownership is listed, it’s emblazoned on the cover of Peter Schweizer’s new book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy."

    And it’s just one of the startling revelations by Schweizer, famous for his previous works, "Reagan’s War" and "The Bushes."

    Other examples:

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who proclaims her support for unions, yet the luxury resort, the vineyard and the restaurants she partly owns are strictly non-union. While she advocates tough new laws enforcing environmental regulations on the private sector, the exclusive country club she partly owns failed to comply with existing environmental regulations for the past eight years – including a failure to protect endangered species.

    Noam Chomsky has made a reputation for calling America a police state and branding the Pentagon "the most hideous institution on earth," yet his entire academic career, writes Schweizer, has been subsidized by the U.S. military.

    Barbra Streisand is another proponent of environmentalism, yet she drives an SUV, lives in a mansion and has a $22,000 annual water bill. In the past, she has driven to appointments in Beverly Hills in a motor home because of her aversion to using public bathrooms.

    Ralph Nader plays the role of the citizen avenger – the populist uninterested in wealth and materialism, pretending to live in a modest apartment. In fact, he lives in fancy homes registered in the names of his siblings.
    This is not just a book of "gotcha" journalism, explains Schweizer. He says the dozens and dozens of examples of "liberal hypocrisy" he cites in his book "are of central importance in evaluating the validity and usefulness of liberal ideas."

    "Using IRS records, court depositions, news reports, financial disclosures and their own statements, I sought to answer a particular question: Do these liberal leaders and activists practice what they preach?" he writes. "What I found was a stunning record of open and shameless hypocrisy. Those who champion the cause of organized labor had developed various methods to avoid paying union wages or shunned unions altogether.

    "Those who believe that the rich need to pay more in taxes proved especially adept at avoiding taxes themselves. Critics of capitalism and corporate enterprise frequently invested in the very companies they denounced. Those who espouse strict environmental regulations worked vigorously to sidestep them when it came to their own businesses and properties. Those who advocate steep inheritance taxes to promote fairer income distribution hid their investments in trusts or exotic overseas locales to reduce their own tax liability. Those who are strong proponents of affirmative action rarely practiced it themselves, and some had abysmal records when it came to hiring minorities. Those who proclaim themselves champions of civil liberties when it comes to criminal or terrorist cases went to extraordinary lengths to curtail the civil liberties of others when they felt threatened or just inconvenienced. Advocates of gun control had no problem making sure that an arsenal of weapons was available to protect them from dangerous criminals."

    • Most rich people are self serving hypocritical cunts. I think there should be some kind of wealth distribution which involves killing these people. This would enable the 2/3rds of the world to have clean drinking water that at present don’t.

      Controversial , I know, but what a manifesto for government-would get my vote.

    • die an insignificant little turd and nobody will notice. Awesome. Have fun being a giant zero until you finally croak in a gutter somewhere.

    • Its that kind of US foreign policy that has won you so many friends (ie nobody except puppet leaders) around the world.

      Yeah ’awesome’. Prick.

    • Right on..... but I think ’prick’ is a little kind.