George Galloway, the British MP, was last night accused of lying by a US Congressional committee when he testified earlier this year that he had not received any United Nation food-for-oil allocations from the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
In a report issued here, Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman and his colleagues on the Senate Subcommittee for Investigations claim to have evidence showing that Mr Galloway’s political organisation and his wife received vouchers worth almost $600,000 (£338,000) from the then Iraqi government.
"We have what we call the smoking gun," said Mr Coleman, who will send the report to the US Department of Justice and the British authorities. The MP could face charges of perjury, making false statements and obstructing a Congressional investigation. Each charge carries a possible jail term of five years and a fine of $250,000.
Galloway goes on the offensive, again, by stating:
"I have not made a penny out of oil deals with Iraq, or indeed any other kind of deal,"
Yeah George, but your wife did.
Galloway also had this to say in another article:
George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.
I hope you get your wish.
And how does lying George explain all this?
"Knowing what we do about what happens to people in American dungeons in Iraq, you don’t have to be a genius to work out why, after May, they would get somebody to say what they want them to say."
Gotta prove that in court George. Before too long all that bombastic rhetoric’s gonna bite Galloway. And when it does, I’ll be leading the cheering section.
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