George Galloway Watch: “I am Ready to Fly to the US Today”

British legislator George Galloway is sworn in before his testimony at the Senate subcommittee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill in this Tuesday, May 17, 2005 file photo in Washington. Galloway gave false testimony to U.S. lawmakers when he vehemently denied receiving valuable U.N. oil-for-food allocations from deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a Senate investigative subcommittee said Monday Oct 24 2005. Sen. Norm Coleman presented evidence that they say shows British lawmaker George Galloway’s political organization and his wife received nearly $600,000 (502,344) from the oil allocations. Galloway denies the charges.

AFP News has Come and get me, George Galloway challenges US Congress.

George Galloway has challenged the United States to charge him with perjury after he was accused of lying to a Senate committee over the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq.

Galloway, a strident opponent of the Iraq war, said he was “completely bemused” by fresh allegations that he personally solicited and received eight oil vouchers from Saddam Hussein’s regime between 1999 and 2003.

During sworn testimony in May the bombastic left-winger told a US Senate subcommittee investigating the oil-for-food scheme that he never benefitted from the controversial programme.

However, U.S. congressional investigators say they have evidence that Galloway profited from the U.N. programme. They also allege he knowingly made false or misleading statements to Congress in May when he denied the charges.

The Senate governmental affairs subcommittee on investigations will hand over its findings in a report to the U.S. Justice Department and to British authorities, said panel chairman Senator Norm Coleman.

Flap has the story George Galloway Watch: May Face Criminal Charges for Givng False Testimony Under Oath to U.S. Senate.

Speaking to BBC radio on Tuesday, Galloway said: “I did not lie under oath in front of the Senate committee.”

He said he had not seen the latest allegations from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which he accused of being “cavalier with any idea of process and justice”.

Galloway added: “I’m still willing to go to the United States and still willing to face any charge of perjury in front of that Senate committee.

“I’m demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I’m demanding it.

“If a Senate committee can go on the international airwaves without putting this to you, without sending me an advance (copy) and accuse me of lying under oath in front of a Senate committee, then I demand they charge me with perjury — and I’ll be on the next plane to face it.”

Flap is looking forward to George Galloway’s return to the USA and he is sure that Senator Norm Coleman is as well.

Led by Senator Norm Coleman, the investigative arm of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has been studying reports of corruption surrounding the 1996-2003 UN Iraq oil-for-food programme.

Coleman’s group has focused its attention on individuals it believes took illegal benefits from the programme, which was aimed at allowing sanction-hit Iraq to sell a limited amount of oil to buy food and medicine for its people.

Besides Galloway, Coleman’s committee has accused senior officials at the United Nations and top Russian and French politicians, of taking money or oil allocations from the program.

Two former high-ranking French diplomats — including the country’s representative to the United Nations between 1991 and 1995 — have been placed under criminal investigation by a French judge looking into the matter.

Senator Norm Coleman

Will Galloway be prosecuted?

Perhaps.

But, he has already been exposed as the CROOK and LIAR SCUM that he is.

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