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Unspinning the US’s web of lies against Galloway
Posted By: wtnf In Response To: Tariq Aziz pulls plug on Senate’s Galloway smears (wtnf)
Date: 6, November 05, at 8:12 a.m.
by Charlie Kimber, Simon Assaf and Kevin Ovenden
Two reports last week announced with great sound and fury that they had the “smoking gun” linking Respect MP George Galloway to the payroll of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime.
In fact both signified nothing more than another desperate attempt to distract from the real criminals in Iraq — and to smear those who have campaigned against Bush and Blair’s war.
Neither the US Senate committee nor the United Nations (UN) backed Volcker committee report has found one piece of paper to link George Galloway to money received from Iraq.
Instead both simply proclaim his guilt. They allege that Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, his estranged wife, received money, or that Fawaz Zureikat, a man who contributed to a campaigning fund set up by George Galloway, did deals with Saddam Hussein and so tainted money found its way to the MP.
This web of lies was originally buttressed by the supposed testimony of Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi deputy prime minister. But as we show on page one this has sensationally collapsed.
Now the claims are largely based on a repetition of “evidence” which was discredited when it was presented in May — and shot down in flames by George Galloway in his appearance before the Senate committee.
Repetition of falsehood does not make it true. It simply shows that some US politicians will stop at nothing in their effort to take attention away from the great lies about the Iraq war.
The central document used last week is a forgery — as Socialist Worker revealed five months ago (How they forged the case against Galloway, 1959, 21 May).
The most recent reports echo an earlier claim about contract M/09/23. This alleges that 1,014,000 barrels of oil were allocated from the Iraqi oil ministry to “Mr Fawwaz Zurayqat — Mr George Galloway — Aredio Petroleum (French)”.
But the most cursory examination shows that the document had been altered to add George Galloway’s name.
Hours after Socialist Worker went to press with this revelation, our story was confirmed by the US Senate itself.
In exhibit #9 presented to George Galloway moments before he spoke to the Senate, the same contract, M/09/23 is discussed in papers which purport to be a translation of a document from the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organisation from January 2001.
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