How they attempted to frame Galloway.

[understandinglife]

"Look closely at the entry, which is reproduced above.

The typeface (font) used for “Mr George Galloway” is different to the rest of the line. Indeed the only time this font is used in the entire document is where George Galloway’s name appears.

“Mr George Galloway” does not line up with the rest of the words in the entry. It is at an angle to the other words.

The spacings between “Mr George Galloway” and the rest of the words are inconsistent.

The dash after the words “Mr George Galloway” touches the following word.

The words “Mr George Galloway” are at a different type density (lighter) than the rest of the line.

The most likely explanation is that the words “Mr George Galloway” have been added after the list was prepared, perhaps stuck on and then photocopied to produce the list in the Duelfer Report."

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6511

Sweet.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[ewagner]

1. Damn!!!!

That's more evidence than they had for "Rathergate".....

Galloway did make reference to the "proven forged" documents in his testimony today.....that forgery is amateurish....just like the Niger letter? Maybe the same people? (Curveball, Chalabi)

[dogday]

2. Applauding this-nominated

[Dhalgren]

3. I am so fucking sick of these criminals, thugs, and thieves

who are in control of this country! We have to bring this to an end!

[newfaceinhell]

4. It'd almost be laughable if they weren't taking it so seriously

[Justin54B20L]

5. Well, if his name was stuck on there, who's name is his covering up?

edit: well, i shouldn't say "if," because it is blatently apparent it was stuck on there.

[understandinglife]

7. ""The actual first document, we don't know where it is, they don't know ..

... where it is and all they have is a photocopy handed over by an unnamed source."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4556113.stm

And, as noted in the same article:

"In December, Mr Galloway won £150,000 in libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over its separate claims he had received money from Saddam's regime.

The MP had denied ever seeking or receiving money from Saddam's government, which he said he had long opposed."

I suspect Mr Galloway is going to be a persistent force for the removal, early, of Mr Blair from PM.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[zbdent]

13. Not sure, but I think his initials are

Dick Cheney . . .

[Jose Diablo]

16. who's name is his covering up?

Uh, Richard Cheney?

Edit: Hmmm, beat me by just a few moments.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Great find, UL.

Thanks.

[cyberpj]

8. Excellent.

Recommended.

[kerrygoddess]

9. Text from Galloway interview and testimony today

British Lawmaker Issues Scathing Words for Neocons
17 May 2005



British lawmaker George Galloway, implicated in the Iraq oil-for-food program, said today he word reject the charges against him a U.S. Senate hearing and issued some scathing words for the “Republican lynch mob.” Galloway was a witness today before the committee examining the United Nations oil-for-food program.

“This group of neocons (neoconservatives) is involved in the mother of all smokescreens,” he said of the committee. “I want to turn the tables on this neocon, pro-Israel, pro-war, Republican lynch mob.”

He earlier told Reuters that he had "no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neocon (President) George Bush who is pro-war.”

“I come not as the accused but as the accuser,” he added.

MORE - http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=904

[understandinglife]

10. WP: "Report Says Treasury Missed Iraq Oil Abuses" --- buried on A14

Report Says Treasury Missed Iraq Oil Abuses
U.S. Firm Accused of $37 Million in Kickbacks

By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 17, 2005; Page A14

The U.S. Treasury Department failed to adequately monitor U.S. companies that violated U.N. sanctions against Iraq, permitting a Houston-based oil company to avoid scrutiny as it paid Saddam Hussein's government more than $37 million in illegal kickbacks, according to a report released yesterday by Democrats investigating abuses in the U.N. oil-for-food program.

Bayoil, a Texas firm indicted by a federal grand jury last month for paying millions of dollars in illegal fees to Iraq, received "minimal attention" from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as it managed the import of more than 200 million barrels of Iraqi crude into the United States between 2000 and 2002, according to the report released by Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

more at link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/16/AR2005051601369.html

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[savannahana]

28. Bayoil indictment - link (thanks, UL - nominated)

23-page .pdf from findlaw.com:

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/uschlmrs41405ind.pdf

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
----------------------------------

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

- v. -

DAVID B. CHALMERS, JR.,
JOHN IRVING,
LUDMIL DIONISSIEV,
BAYOIL, USA, (INC.), and
BAYOIL SUPPLY AND TRADING LIMITED

Defendants.
----------------------------------------------------------------
(p1 .pdf) COUNT ONE:
Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and to Engage
in Prohibited Financial Transactions with Iraq

(p14) COUNT TWO:
(Wire Fraud)

(p15) COUNT THREE:
(Prohibited Financial Transactions with Iraq)

(p16) COUNT FOUR:
(Violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

indictment
signed by: DAVID N. KELLEY, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

additional background:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4445073.stm

http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2005/04/15/texas-oil-and-the-cia-part-of-saddams-network/

http://nation.com.pk/daily/apr-2005/15/international7.php

[anitar1]

33. Lies. How many of our gallant officials profited from

that farce of a program. Many, IMO.

[G_j]

11. heard Galloway in a BBC interview

last week, saying something like, 'of course it is a forgery, the whole Iraq invasion is seeded with forgeries'

[norml]

12. British MP: Charges 'a pack of lies'

British MP: Charges 'a pack of lies'
Galloway denies profiting from oil-for-food program




Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Posted: 12:41 PM EDT (1641 GMT)



British Parliament member George Galloway appears Tuesday before a Senate panel.


(CNN) -- British Parliament member George Galloway on Tuesday angrily denied profiting from Saddam Hussein's regime and criticized the Senate panel probing alleged corruption the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.

Galloway appeared before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which stated in a report last week that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein granted him vouchers for 20 million barrels of oil between 2000 and 2003.

He called the accusations against him "a pack of lies" and told the panel that he never took "one thin dime" from Iraq.

"If you had any evidence of that I had ever engaged in any actual oil transaction, if you had any evidence that anybody ever gave me any money, it would be before the public and before this" committee today, Galloway said.



snip



http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/17/oil.food/index.html

[understandinglife]

18. Sure seems to be making his point in this photo!

"...a pack of lies..."


Psst, psst, oh Mr Blair, you should just resign from PM and spend time with family and friends given that you are on your way to The Hague with your buddy BU$H.

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[leftchick]

14. "The MOTHER of All Smokescreens"

said George. He has the neocons' number.

[Quixote1818]

15. Self Delete

I was wrong, it's not the longest line.

[Minstrel Boy]

17. And his name is angled, unlike the other lines, why? n/t

[EFerrari]

34. Forger didn't align the paper in the Selectric carefully enough. n/t

[norml]

19. British Lawmaker Denies Oil-For-Food Claim

10:34 AM PDT, May 17, 2005 latimes.com : Nation E-mail story Print Most E-Mailed

British Lawmaker Denies Oil-For-Food Claim
By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON -- British lawmaker George Galloway vehemently rejected a Senate subcommittee's claim that Saddam Hussein awarded him lucrative allocations under the U.N. oil-for-food program and accused its chairman of maligning his good name.

The subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman, claimed that Galloway allegedly funneled allocations through a fund he established in 1998 to help a 4-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukemia and received allocations worth 20 million barrels from 2000 to 2003.

"I am not now nor have I ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf," Galloway testified Tuesday. "I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas."

Coleman later questioned Galloway's testimony. "If in fact he lied to this committee, there will have to be consequences," Coleman said at a news conference after the hearing.



snip



http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-oil-for-food,1,356882.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[understandinglife]

20. "I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington

.... but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice." -- Galloway's assessment of Coleman!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4556113.stm

Peace.



www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Be it MNA Day 3 or 8 or 15 or .... the day will come when 10s of millions of Americans and others stop their typical activities for 24 hours and urge 10 times that many to join should another MNA Day be required. On that glorious day America will have begun truly to be "America," again.

[bleever]

24. I loved this line too!

:thumbsup:

[understandinglife]

21. "The people who have been guilty of massive profiteering in Iraq is the US

.... themselves and I intend to put them on trial. I don’t have to answer to them, they don’t rule the world."

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,200225,00.jpg

Galloway attacks Senate for 'mother of all smokescreens'
By Philippe Naughton, Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616104,00.html


Question: Is his middle name "Paul Revere"?

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[understandinglife]

22. "the real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance ..

....of your own government."


New York Times homepage

British Lawmaker Denies That He Diverted Oil-for-Food Money



By BRIAN KNOWLTON
International Herald Tribune
Published: May 17, 2005

WASHINGTON, May 17 - In an unusual appearance today before a Senate subcommittee, a British lawmaker vehemently denied any role in diverting money from the United Nations oil-for-food program and bitterly condemned the Iraq war, saying that the Bush administration built it around "a pack of lies" and now sought to divert attention with "the mother of all smokescreens."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/international/europe/17cnd-food.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1116364663-fm7MFMJ2tumOlfBug99wjg

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[nashville_brook]

23. reminds me of a certain other memo with typographical inconsistencies

you rock!

[bleever]

25. Another thing this reminds me of: the "Camp Krusty" episode

of The Simpsons, where they kids are watching (in lieu of Krusty himself) a video welcoming them to the camp, wherein every mention of "Krusty" has been overdubbed with "Mr. Black" in a different voice.

They are getting comical in their over-reliance on the same damn stupid techniques that worked when we were all dazed over 9/11.

I favor a new paradigm shift: from "9/11 changed everything" to "it's time to get back to normal".


And thanks, UL, for this great catch.

[Nothing Without Hope]

26. Thanks, UL - this is definitely a keeper. Now they will have to come up

with a distraction to the distraction - another small plane wandering in, perhaps? Or something worse this time?

I've heard that the Niger yellowcake documents were such a bad forgery that when they were finally - after MONTHS - seen by objective experts the fakery was proven immediately. Really cheesy. This looks to be the same.

This is a great find. And what fools Galloway showed them to be - criminals and fools. We already knew, but he put it in a floodlight for anyone able to watch.

Which brings me back to the question of what will be the new distraction du jour...:scared:

[understandinglife]

27. "... what will be the new distraction du jour..." I think 'reality' is ...

... about to become a major 'distraction' for all those who've either been in denial or haven't been paying attention.

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Nothing Without Hope]

30. yes, especially if the June Iran invasion goes off on schedule

...whether the US does it or - the more likely route, called "Operation Daniel" and apparently pitched by Ariel Sharon to Bush in mid April - Israel attacks first, stirs up the hornets' nest, and then the US rushes in to save their wonderful peace-loving ally.

And with insufficient manpower, presumably it will be mostly bombs. Nuclear? I wouldn't rule it out. And if there is too much resistance in the US, why, they can stage another 9/11-type attack. Jerome Corsi really waxes eloquent about a nuclear bomb being set off by Iranian terrorists in NYC.

Guess I should get to bed early tongiht. I am so very tired of it all.

Peace.

[understandinglife]

29. In case you want to thank MP Galloway

Gallowayg @ parliament.uk (remove spaces)

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[oasis]

31. Galloway's detractors seek to divert attention away from the Bushista's

record of piracy in Iraq.

[hector459]

32. Kicking and sending to MSM ; also sending to Handbills n/t

[Vladimir]

35. Somebody, somewhere, is really really bad at forging stuff n/t

[evermind]

36. An Iraqi Reveals How He Forged An Oil For Food List (followup article)

The first list of alleged "beneficiaries of Saddam Hussein’s oil vouchers" appeared on January 25, 2004 in the Al-Mada newspaper, published in the U.S.-run 'Green Zone' of Baghdad.

The paper claimed to have obtained a list (in Arabic) of 270 organisations and individuals awarded allocations of oil by Saddam’s regime. Al-Mada published the names, including George Galloway.

There is testimony that this document is also a forgery. On February 10, 2004 the newspaper Al-Watan published the account of Sajad Ahmad Ali.

[...]

"We worked for ten days, and then we steamed the papers a bit, then dried them out so that they would look old. I made a few mistakes in some of the lists."

Full article at: http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6512

My comment:

I'm not sure what the relation is between these documents and the ones offered by Coleman's bunch. The article quoted says there's "a link" between the newspaper lists and documents appearing in the Duelfer report - though the ones the forger is coughing to here were apparently Arabic language, and the Duelfer report's are in English.

The point to me is, with such proliferation of forged documents implicating Galloway - a fact the the Committee's report shows they were at least dimly aware of, though they garbled the information, there is a looming question as to whether they exercised due diligence in relying on documents for which they did not have the originals, and without any apparent attempt to investigate internal irregularities in those documents they did have.

As I recall from the presentation of the evidence, the bona fides of the documents were inferred from correlations between them and other documents - I remember Zhirinovsky-related letters serving this purpose. But this is expected: it's long been known that the best technique in disinformation is to mix fact with your invention. The inclusion of true (and therefore correlatable) facts in the documents in no way guarantees their complete authenticity, and it is specious to argue the authenticity from the inclusion of facts.

(edited to tidy it up a bit)

[markus]

37. Um, well, yes, Sen. Levin, the things are damn forgeries

Do you have to give all your money back to AIPAC now that you've failed?