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Article: Oil-for-Food Galloway: Biting Back at Senators.(British politician George Galloway answers questions regarding 'oil-for-food' arrangements with Iraq)(Middle East ASI)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
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- May 30, 2005
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Byline: Mark Hosenball
In a defiant Senate appearance, left-wing British pol George Galloway condemned the Iraq war last week and denied accusations he benefited from dubious prewar Iraq oil-for-food deals. A Senate report quotes former Iraqi officials saying Saddam Hussein's regime had granted Galloway lucrative oil-for-food "allocations" because he publicly favored lifting prewar sanctions on Iraq. Galloway told senators he never saw a penny in oil proceeds and dared them to prove he pocketed any money.
But Galloway became evasive when senators questioned him about a company called Middle East ASI, run by a close friend of his in Jordan; investigators ...