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2003-04-23 Britain

Intelligence experts claim Daily Telegraph find likely to be authentic

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Posted by Steve White 2003-04-23 12:33 am|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ah yassss the truth will not be known for many , many years... not until everyone has forgotten all about Iraq, and the Left's job as Saddam's Little Helper in the West.

Not until everybody is safely back to hating america and blaming Bush for the 'atrocity' of Iraq, can we come clean about the fact that Sammy was paying our hero Galloway.

Posted by anon1 2003-04-23 01:12:42|| 2003-04-23 01:12:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Galloway is a complete asshole and these documents are going to fry his ass. He's beloved by the Guardian, but he's not going to get away with this.

Galloway has been in trouble before over money and lavishness...maybe he was getting a little short.

Wonder how many Swiss bank accounts he has?

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-04-23 01:46:33|| 2003-04-23 01:46:33|| Front Page Top

#3 There will be lots of collateral damage from all those files that authoritarian regimes so love.

I am happy the Galloway is one of the first - he is a contemptable slimeball who has got away with his money-grabbing crap for far too long.

Also on the collateral damage list is the UN's oil-for-palaces program, then France, Russia, Arafat! I love it!

Posted by Phil B 2003-04-23 02:50:18|| 2003-04-23 02:50:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Raking the Galloway muck, the Telegraph's Opinions staff expound on Galloway's Gall this morning. It's worth a read.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-04-23 04:01:06|| 2003-04-23 04:01:06|| Front Page Top

#5 great link, Bulldog, excellent article. The British media is without peer, I love it. They are like a pack of pitbulls. nothing gets beyond them. Sounds plausible, I guess it's true after all!

Posted by anon1 2003-04-23 05:15:58|| 2003-04-23 05:15:58|| Front Page Top

#6 "CIA/MI6/KGB/Mossad/UNCLE/SMERSH/SPECTRE "
Don't forget U.N.C.L.E & T.H.R.U.S.H.

Posted by raptor 2003-04-23 06:11:17|| 2003-04-23 06:11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Once in a great while, the big wheel turns...

Sweeeeeet.

Posted by PD 2003-04-23 06:33:14|| 2003-04-23 06:33:14|| Front Page Top

#8 anon1, Don't know it you read this too, but more Telegraph Galloway-bashing can be found here.

"...Under the tutelage of Galloway, Dundee - that austere and generally depressed city on the north shore of the Tay - twinned itself with Nablus on the West Bank of the Jordan. It was an unlikely union that saw the PLO flag flying over the Gothic splendour of Dundee's municipal buildings, but it quickly took on a farcical air when, as part of the twinning ceremony, the Mayor of Nablus was presented with a crate of whisky and a kilt by the Scottish delegation. What use a strictly teetotal Muslim, both of whose legs had been blown away in a terrorist explosion, would have had for whisky and kilts was never made clear..."

Posted by Bulldog 2003-04-23 07:20:55|| 2003-04-23 07:20:55|| Front Page Top

#9 telegraph also uncovered links from Iraq to Ugandan terrorists. DT doing a better job than the CIA??

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-23 08:45:58|| 2003-04-23 08:45:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Gorgeous George does seem to have his ass in a wringer, right enough.

English treason law doesn't require an "overt act" like the American version. See ya Georgie...

Oh, and increase the S.M.E.R.S.H budget next year, Smithers...

Posted by mojo 2003-04-23 10:04:31|| 2003-04-23 10:04:31|| Front Page Top

#11 CIA doesn't publish what it finds. Somewhere in Langley there are a number of fellows snickering and chortling and rubbing their hands this very moment...

Posted by Fred 2003-04-23 10:04:48|| 2003-04-23 10:04:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Sorry, Georgie Porgie, you've been found out. Send a postcard from Antenora.

Posted by KP 2003-04-23 10:14:55|| 2003-04-23 10:14:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe Georgie has already taken the Chunnel train and is setting up his flat on the Left Bank? I can NEVER forgive or forget his vitiriolic anti-American column of Sept. 12, 2001. The man is beyond contempt and his actions - if found to be true - are grounds for the enforcement of England's treason laws.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-04-23 11:39:33|| 2003-04-23 11:39:33|| Front Page Top

#14 ColoradoConservative: What was that column? An "I'm glad they're dead?" A "Reward the terrorists?"

Posted by KP 2003-04-23 11:48:11|| 2003-04-23 11:48:11|| Front Page Top

#15 However, eyebrows were raised at the fact that they were unearthed with relative ease by a reporter for a British broadsheet which would naturally be critical of George Galloway.

The Telegraph's correspondent, David Blair, says he found the papers as he and his translator searched the first floor of the Iraqi foreign ministry on Saturday. Mr Blair says the translator "happened upon an orange box file" labelled "Britain" in Arabic.

Well duh. To think that a box labeled "Britain" in Arabic wouldn't naturally attract the attention of a Pom and his translator is......?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-23 12:04:12|| 2003-04-23 12:04:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Let's make double sure that Britain's vaunted "taxman" becomes fully aware of all those financial arrangements and compensation involving Mr. Gallway.

That should do the trick - talk about "pit bulls!"

Posted by Larry 2003-04-23 12:13:00|| 2003-04-23 12:13:00|| Front Page Top

#17
Galloway's column was called "Reaping the Whirlwind" and was published in The Guardian 9big surprise, huh?). Go to today's "Best of the Web" column by James Taranto. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

Also, update on Georgie's whereabouts. Per the Sun tabloid, he's holed up in his bungalow in Portugal.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-04-23 12:13:21|| 2003-04-23 12:13:21|| Front Page Top

#18 So, he blamed our desire to free the enslavÃ¨d lands and bring tyrants to justice for 9/11. Jerk.

Well, now this creep has had his true colors unearthed. Bet Blix couln't have unearthed that, now could he.

Posted by KP 2003-04-23 14:18:58|| 2003-04-23 14:18:58|| Front Page Top

#19 I wonder if anybody is sitting next to him in the benches these days. Did they all get up and move away, Georgie? Awwwww....

Posted by mojo 2003-04-23 15:52:56|| 2003-04-23 15:52:56|| Front Page Top

#20 Indeed, it is certainly true that the Soviets funded the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and that many of the leading lefties in the UK, then and now, were affiliated with the CND. Now, some of them were just useful idiots, but surely some of the CND people were essentially Soviet agents.

Posted by John Thacker 2003-04-23 16:26:54|| 2003-04-23 16:26:54|| Front Page Top

#21 "CIA/MI6/KGB/Mossad/UNCLE/SMERSH/SPECTRE"--
You left out K.A.O.S. and K.O.N.T.R.O.L. Get Smart!

Posted by J. G. Jackson 2003-04-23 16:47:13|| 2003-04-23 16:47:13|| Front Page Top

#22 Meanwhile, in India..."He is a great friend of Pakistan. He has received the top award Hilal-e-Qaid-e-Azam. But the Pakistani government did not pay him," they said, shrugging off claims that Galloway was seen handing out signed receipts for cheques of 60,000 pounds on behalf of the National Lobby on Kashmir.

Posted by Pink & Fluffy 2003-04-23 23:49:55|| 2003-04-23 23:49:55|| Front Page Top

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