Galloway Slipping - The Christian

Galloway Slipping - The Christian Science Monitor follows the London Telegraph with documentary evidence that British Labour party MP and anti-war activist George Galloway was on the Iraqi payroll.

Big-time:

Evidence of Mr. Galloway's dealings with the regime were first revealed earlier this week by David Blair, a reporter for the Daily Telegraph in London, who discovered documents in Iraq's Foreign Ministry.

The Labour Party MP, who lambasted his party's prime minister, Tony Blair, in parliamentary debates on the war earlier this year, has denied the allegations. He is now the focus of a preliminary investigation by British law-enforcement officials and is under intense scrutiny in the British press, where the story has been splashed across the front pages.

The most recent - and possibly most revealing - documents were obtained earlier this week by the Monitor. The papers include direct orders from the Hussein regime to issue Mr. Galloway six individual payments, starting in July 1992 and ending in January 2003.

The payments point to a concerted effort by the regime to use its oil wealth to win friends in the Western world who could promote Iraqi interests first by lifting sanctions against Iraq and later in blocking war plans.

The leadership of Hussein's special security section and accountants of the President's secretive Republican Guard signed the papers and authorized payments totaling more than $10 million.

Ten million dollars.

Galloway accounts for about $600 large.

Where's the rest?

If the leader of the opposition of the second-largest power lined up against Iraq got $600K, who could the Iraqis have been paying in the largest power in the coalition?

Your speculation is welcomed.

Posted by Mitch at April 25, 2003 08:02 AM