Reply #69: The original announced Galloway financial transaction records were forged [View All]

[papau]

Perhaps that is why the report that I have not read says Galloway may have recieved vouchers - rather than asserting that records show that he did.

The British Courts reviewed those records and found for Galloway.

It will be interesting if we let an American Court have a go at reviewing those records in say a Galloway Slander suit.

At this point Coleman has not spoke outside of the wording of the report - so no Slander yet - and the only Coleman addition was the Tariq assertions - which are now proven to be a lie per Tariq himself.

I suspect Coleman will now drop this except on the floor of the Senate where he is immune from slander suits for what he says.

If the GOP have the balls to continue to lie about this, a slander suit will be fun to watch!

:toast:

:-)


FYI from Winipedia

One of the earliest allegations of wrongdoing in the program surfaced on 25 January 2004, when al Mada, a daily newspaper in Iraq, published a list of individuals and organizations alleged to have received oil sales contracts via the UN's Oil-for-Food Programme. The list came from over 15,000 documents which were reportedly found in the state-owned Iraqi oil corporation which had close links to the Iraqi Oil Ministry. The oil ministry was headed by allies of Ahmed Chalabi, controversial member of the Iraqi governing council who had been widely criticized for supplying the US with bogus information during the lead up to the war. Chalabi's alleged involvement and the initial lack of corroborating evidence placed doubt on the accuracy of the al Mada list.

Named in the list of beneficiaries were the British MP, George Galloway and his charity, the Mariam Fund, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, and Shaker al-Kaffaji, an Iraqi-American businessman, who contributed US$400,000 to produce a film by ex-UN inspector Scott Ritter discrediting the weapons searches. Many prominent Russian firms and individuals were also included in the al-Mada allegations. Even the Russian Orthodox Church was supposedly involved in illegal oil trading. George Galloway subsequently won two libel actions against the Christian Science Monitor and Daily Telegraph which reported the allegations.<7>