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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (5430)	10/26/2005 9:47:15 AM
From: John Sladek	Respond to of 9838

Rebel MP faces US penal charge October 26, 2005 Correspondents in New York ...The report says Fawaz Zureikat, a Jordanian middleman and a close friend of Mr Galloway, funnelled $US150,000 from Iraqi oil sales to Mr Galloway's wife and at least $US446,000 to the Mariam Appeal. The saga dates back to Mr Galloway's Big Ben to Baghdad tour in 1999, when he took a red double-decker bus to Iraq. An anonymous "Oil trader 1" told Senate investigators that Mr Galloway had asked him at the Rashid Hotel during the tour how to translate oil allocations into money. Another anonymous individual, known as "Oil trader 2", told the investigators he learned in 2000 that the Iraqi Government had granted an allocation of oil to someone represented by Mr Zureikat. Oil trader 2 said: "At that time I knew the individual that Zureikat represented was a British official named George Galloway." He added: "Officials of the Iraqi state oil marketing organisation confirmed to me that Mr Zureikat represented Mr Galloway in the sale of Galloway's allocations of Iraqi crude oil." The Times Full Story: theaustralian.news.com.au