Crystal ball?
Tarot cards?

I know you do not want any comment that might lower the anti-Zionist stance on this.

But the overwhelmign proof is that this is a pig plot for the McPigs! If the McPigs did not buy that shit paper this bullshit problem is finished.

If Galloway leaves the pigsty this thing is finished.
He could calmly get down the ailse and spit on Tony's face and leave in style. It will the *world* a lot of good.

So the only conclusive proof so far is that this is all pig swill.

any sources for this?

Galloway ought to have resigned the Labour whip a long time ago
Perhaps he's proud to follow in the path of Scargill, Hatton, Stalker
People fucked over in terms of their positions of power and moral rectitude,with just a little suggestion of financial improprietry.
How obvious.
Quite obvious that this Blair guy was at least steered towards his 'find'

It wouldn't be the first time the editor of a corporate newspaper was a security officer.

The 'Telegraph' group, including 'The Daily Telegraph' and 'The Sunday Telegraph', has been party to what can at best be described as poor journalism regarding Sudan. The group is owned by newspaper magnate Conrad Black, who is the third biggest owner of newspapers in the world.
In addition to owning the Telegraph group, his company, Hollinger International Inc. also owns major newspapers in the United States, Canada, Israel and Australia, including 'The Chicago Sun Times', 'The Jerusalem Post', 'The National Post', and 'The Sydney Morning Herald'.
It must be said that the 'Telegraph Group' also seems to have been remarkably accident-prone with regard to disinformation, especially regarding Sudan. (2) In 1994, for example, the foreign editor of 'The Sunday Telegraph', Con Coughlin, repeated disinformation claims about
thousands of Iranian Revolutionary guards being present in Sudan. (3) In his account of his time in Sudan, for example, former United States ambassador to Sudan, Donald Petterson, revealed such claims to be disinformation:


"Reports appeared in the media that hundreds, even thousands of Iranians, many of them Revolutionary Guard military and security police advisers, had come to Sudan. Reports also persisted that the Iranians were training Palestinian, Egyptian, Algerian, and other radical
Islamist terrorists at sites in Sudan, some of them quite large. The reports were based in part on information provided by Egyptian intelligence sources, which were conducting an assiduous disinformation campaign against Sudan. The truth was something far less alarming. There were Iranian advisers and technicians in Sudan, and Shiite propagandists and clerics as well, yet their numbers were relatively small, certainly nothing like the numbers being reported by the Western press." (4)


A year later, in 1995, 'The Daily Telegraph' was repeating Christian Solidarity International claims about "slavery" in Sudan. (5) Reputable human rights activist, and Sudan specialist, Alex de Waal, when director of African Rights, was particularly sceptical of the sorts of claims made by CSI:


"(O)vereager or misinformed human rights advocates in Europe and the US have played upon lazy assumptions to raise public outrage. Christian Solidarity International, for instance, claims that 'Government troops and Government-backed Arab militias regularly raid black African
communities for slaves and other forms of booty'. The organization repeatedly uses the term 'slave raids', implying that taking captives is the aim of government policy. This despite the fact that there is no
evidence for centrally-organized, government-directed slave raiding or slave trade." (6)


In August 1998, 'The Daily Telegraph' claimed that the Iraqi air force had somehow been flown to Sudan to avoid its destruction in the Gulf War. (7) The newspaper did not explain quite how several hundred Iraqi bombers were able to fly over Saudi Arabian or Israeli airspace without being challenged or destroyed at that somewhat sensitive time. In an equally inventive 1999 article, 'The Daily Telegraph' claimed that Osama bin-Laden was buying child slaves from Ugandan rebels and using them as forced labour on marijuana farms in Sudan in order to fund international terrorism. (8) When asked about this claim, the British government stated they had seen no evidence for such allegations. (9) And, 'The Daily Telegraph' was one of the first newspapers to repeat discredited United States government claims of Iraqi links to the al-Shifa medicine factory following the disastrously inept attack on that facility in
1998. (10)

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Aficionados of disinformation may be amused to learn that in July 2000,
in an article written by its diplomatic correspondent Christina Lamb,
'The Sunday Telegraph' published claims that the Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein had sent specially-trained belly-dancing assassins, including
one by the stage name of Maleen, to London to kill Iraqi dissidents.
(11) When asked in Parliament about these serious claims, the British
government stated that there was no evidence to support this allegation.
(12) 'The Sunday Telegraph' subsequently retracted the article and
publicly apologised to Ms Maleen for the claim, admitting that "she is
not linked in any way to the regime, has never been employed by the
Iraqi intelligence service, and has never been trained as a terrorist or
assassin". (13)


On 26 August 2000, 'The Sunday Telegraph' newspaper published an
article, also written by Ms Lamb, alleging that China was deploying
700,000 soldiers to Sudan to protect Chinese interests in the Sudanese
oil project. (14) When asked in Parliament asked about this allegation,
the British government stated that "We have no evidence of the presence
of any Chinese soldiers in Sudan, let alone the figure of 700,000
alleged in one press report". (15) Even the Clinton Administration, as
hostile as it was to the Sudanese authorities, dismissed the claims,
stating that even "the figure of tens of thousands of troops is just not
credible based on information available to us". (16)


In September 2000, 'The Sunday Telegraph' published an article alleging
that Abdel Mahmoud al-Koronky, a senior Sudanese diplomat who had served
as Sudan's Charge d'Affaires in London between September 1998 and April
2000, had kept a "slave girl" in his house. (17) This article was also
written by Christina Lamb. Legal action against the newspaper
established that the Sudanese woman said to have been the "slave" had
come to London as an au pair for the diplomat's family. Ms Lamb did not
even speak to the au pair before writing the article, relying instead
upon Sudanese opposition members and Baroness Cox's Christian Solidarity
Worldwide for the "story". 'The Sunday Telegraph' subsequently admitted
the article was untrue, and acknowledged that they had "greatly wronged"
the diplomat in question, "unreservedly" withdrew the allegations, and
"sincerely and unequivocally" apologised for the "distress and gross
hurt" the article had caused. The newspaper also paid "very substantial"
damages to Mr al-Koronky. (18)


The al-Koronky "slave girl" story was a variant on similarly untrue
claims made in 'The Observer' newspaper in London that the Sudanese
president had four slaves in his home. (19)


A Entrenched Disregard for Facts?


'The Daily Telegraph' in particular provides observers with a clear
example of how a newspaper of record, Britain's largest circulation
title, has repeatedly, and perhaps even knowingly, seriously
misrepresented the issue of Christianity in Sudan and southern Sudan
especially. The newspaper has referred to the "Christian" south in Sudan
for a number of years, since, for example, 1995. (20)


Christians make up perhaps between 10-15 percent of the southern
population. Christians therefore account for less than one-fifth of the
southern population, and there appear to be marginally more Christians
than Muslims. Christians comprise 4 percent of the national population.
(21) Speaking in 1970, Joseph Garang, perhaps the most prominent
southern politician in the 1960s, a former Minister of Southern Affairs,
stated that "less than one per centum of the Southern population is
Christian." (22) Muslims make up well over 75 percent of the Sudanese
population. (23)


By far the majority of southerners are neither Christian nor Muslim, and
are adherents of native animist religions. Claims of a "Christian
south", forced to live under Islamic law, with all the implications for
religious conflict, merely perpetuate an inaccurate stereotype of Sudan,
and an equally inaccurate and superficial context for the Sudanese
conflict. This is somewhat similar to claiming that Northern Ireland is
Catholic. Such elementary mistakes would not be allowed in reporting of
First World affairs, but apparently appallingly inaccurate journalism is
perfectly permissible in "coverage" of the developing world.


The newspaper has also repeatedly referred to the SPLA as a "Christian"
organisation, ignoring the fact that if that were the case it would be
representative of a small minority within southern Sudan itself. (24) It
has made these claims, at least since 1998, having been made perfectly
aware that its assertions were widely inaccurate and distorted
perceptions of the Sudanese conflict. (25) It cannot be said that it is
inexperienced, cub, reporters who are making such elementary mistakes. A
'Daily Telegraph' article, "The Church in Rags", written by the veteran
reporter Lord Deedes, demonstrated a continuing disregard to facts in
speaking of "the Christian south". (26)


'The Daily Telegraph' is also the same newspaper that claimed Islamic
sharia law was applied to southern Sudan, whereas the South has been
exempt from sharia law since 1991. The Sudanese civil war is about the
political status of southern Sudan. It is not a religious war. The
conflict predates the present Islamic government by 34 years, and the
most recent phase of the war started six years before the present
government came to power. The most recent phase of the war also predates
the imposition of Islamic sharia law in 1983.


'The Daily Telegraph' has provided other examples of questionable
claims. The previously mentioned article, "The Church in Rags",
demonstrated clearly biased reporting. The article referred to the
Sudanese Catholic Archbishop Gabriel Zubeir Wako being released from a
police cell in Khartoum, "having been arrested on a trumped-up charge
involving an unpaid grocery bill." There are several facts with regard
to this which Lord Deedes appeared to have ignored or missed. The
"grocery bill" in question was more than US$ 660,000. This bill was
incurred by Sudanaid, the Sudanese Catholic Church's own relief agency,
in 1988-90, and was owed to the private Sudanese trading firm Abu
Huzaifah. The firm has gone to court on numerous occasions over the past
decade to recover the US$ 660,000, and in 1998 secured a court order
freezing Sudanaid's accounts as well as seizing several Sudanaid
vehicles to be held against the outstanding bill. The civil court on
learning that Sudanaid personnel had resisted the seizure of vehicles
ordered the arrest of the head of Sudanaid, Archbishop Zubeir, on 1 May
1998. In considerably more accurate coverage of the issue Agence France
Presse on 1 May 1998 reported that:


"Sudanaid...was unable to get the Omdurman civil court ruling overturned
when it first went to the appeal court and then to a tribunal of five
judges set up by the chief justice. Under the initial ruling, the
Omdurman court ordered the freezing of Sudanaid's accounts with Citibank
and the seizure of the relief agency's vehicles. The court ordered
Wako's arrest after being informed by police that Sudanaid personnel had
'resisted' the taking away of the vehicles."


That this was a civil rather than a political decision was evident in
the Sudanese government's embarrassment given that Archbishop Zubeir was
to be present during peace negotiations that month in Kenya. The
Sudanese President intervened to request the suspension of the arrest,
but the local courts went ahead. The Archbishop was subsequently bailed.


One can only hope that the Telegraph group may start to take stock of
its many mistakes in reporting on Sudan. Balanced coverage of Sudanese
affairs can only but enhance attempts to ensure a peaceful solution in
that country.


Notes

1 See, for example, "Rebels Welcome Sudan Peace Plan", News
Article by BBC News, 5 July 2001. See, also, "Sudan Opposition Welcomes
Deal", News Article by Associated Press, 21 July 2002; "US Says Deal
Between Sudan, Rebels is 'Significant Step' Towards Peace", News Article
by Agence France Presse, 22 July 2002; "Sudanese Joy Over Peace Between
Government and Rebels", News Article by Deutsche Press Agentur, 22 July
2002; "Sudan Truce Monitors Optimistic on Peace Prospects", News Article
by Reuters, 23 July 2002.
2 It should also be noted that it was 'The Daily Telegraph', in an
article on 5 September 1990, which first ran with the claims that
following their invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi soldiers had been removing
babies from incubators in premature baby units in order to take the
incubators back to Iraq, action said to have resulted in the deaths of
many babies. This was subsequently exposed as disinformation - see John
MacArthur, New York Times Op-Ed, 6 January 1992 and ABC's '20/20'
program, 17 January 1992, and "Did PR Firm Invent Gulf War Stories", 'In
These Times', 22 January 1992, p.2.
3 "Sudan Trains Terrorism's New Generation", 'The Sunday
Telegraph' (London), 15 May 1994.
4 Donald Petterson, 'Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict, and
Catastrophe', Westview Press, Boulder, 1999, pp.42-43
5 See, "Villagers in Sudan 'sold as slaves'", 'The Daily
Telegraph' (London), 24 August 1995.
6 Alex de Waal, "Sudan: Social Engineering, Slavery and War",
'Covert Action Quarterly', Spring 1997.
7 "Did Saddam pull the strings of the terrorist bombers?", 'The
Daily Telegraph', 12 August 1998.
8 David Blair, "Bin Laden Buys Child Slaves for his Drug Farms in
Africa", 'The Daily Telegraph', 29 March 1999. This particular story was
also carried in other articles, such as "Bin Laden and his Quest for
Slaves", 'The Chicago Tribune', 23 January 2002, and "Searching for
Slaves in bin Laden's Attic", 'Jewish World Review', 25 January 2001.
9 House of Lords Official Report, Written Parliamentary Answer, 5
March 2001, column WA 10.
10 "Iraqi scientists 'helped Sudan make nerve gas'", 'The Daily
Telegraph' (London), 26 August 1998.
11 "Saddam Sends Female Assassins on London Murder Mission", 'The
Sunday Telegraph' (London), 30 July 2000.
12 House of Lords Official Report, Written Parliamentary Answer, 7
March 2001, column WA 31.
13 See published apology, "Sanna Karim, aka Maleen", 'The Sunday
Telegraph', 5 August 2001.
14 "China Puts '700,000 Troops' on Sudan Alert'", 'The Sunday
Telegraph' (London), 26 August 2000.
15 House of Lords Official Report, Written Parliamentary Answer, 5
March 2001, column WA 10.
16 "U.S.: Reports of China's Role in Sudanese War Are Overstated",
News Article by UPI, 29 August 2000.
17 "Sudan Diplomat 'Kept Slave Girl in London Home'", 'The Sunday
Telegraph' (London), 17 September 2000. The story was also carried
internationally. See, for example, "Sudan Diplomat Kept Servant Girl as
Slave in London Home: Report", News Article by Agence France Presse, 17
September 2000.
18 "Statement in Open Court", Case No. HQ006869, In the High Court
of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, between Abdel Mahmoud al-Koronky and
Dominic Lawson, Christina Lamb and The Sunday Telegraph Limited, 4 July
2002.
19 See, "Sudan Revives the Slave Trade", 'The Observer' (London), 9
April 1995.
20 See, for example, "Ugandans 'helping rebels' in Sudan", 'The
Daily Telegraph' (London), 31 October 1995, which refers to "the
Christian south"; "Rebel victories revive 'forgotten war'", 'The Daily
Telegraph' (London), 11 January 1996, refers to "the predominantly
Christian south"; "Sudan rebels take control of south after key
victory", 'The Daily Telegraph' (London), 9 May 1997, refers to "the
largely Christian African south"; "Talks on Sudan offer scant hope of
averting famine", 'The Daily Telegraph' (London), 5 May 1998, refers to
"largely Christian southern rebels"; "Charities buy freedom for Sudan's
child slaves", 'The Daily Telegraph' (London), 24 May 1998, refers to
"mainly-Christian southern Sudan region"; "The Church in rags", 'The
Daily Telegraph' (London), 30 March 1999, refers to "an African
Christian south"; "Old War claims new victims", 'The Daily Telegraph'
(London), 15 February 2000, refers to a "mostly Christian south".
21 There is a certain amount of divergence in respect of estimates
of the religious breakdown of the southern population. Human Rights
Watch states that 4 percent of the population are Christian and that
about 15 percent of southern Sudanese are Christian (Testimony of Jemera
Rone, Human Rights Watch, Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Subcommittee on Africa, 25 September 1997). The Economist Intelligence
Unit in its report entitled 'Sudan: Country Profile 1994-95' also puts
the Christian population of southern Sudan at 15 percent. The definitive
United States government guide, 'Sudan - A Country Study', published by
the Federal Research division and Library of Congress, states that "In
the early 1990s possibly no more than 10 percent of southern Sudan's
population was Christian." Muslims may make up a similar percentage in
southern Sudan.
22 "An Historical Perspective", in 'Horn of Africa', Vol. 9, Number
1, 1985.
23 See, for example, 'Annual Report on International Religious
Freedom for 1999: Sudan', U.S. Department of State, Washington DC, 9
September 1999.
24 "Little faith in Sudan's Islamic regime", 'The Daily Telegraph'
(London), 15 July 1995, refers to "Christian rebels in the south";
"Sudan regime 'blocking food aid'", 'The Daily Telegraph' (London), 2
August 1995, refers to "Christian rebels"; "Spectre of famine creeps up
on Sudan", 'The Daily Telegraph' (London), 12 April 1998, refers to the
SPLA as "a largely Christian southern rebel group".
25 There were several letters from the British-Sudanese Public
Affairs Council to the foreign editor of 'The Daily Telegraph'
outlining in detail the independently-verifiable facts of the religious
composition of southern Sudan and Sudan itself.
26 "The Church in Rags", 'The Daily Telegraph' (London), 30 March
1999.

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Perhaps, as some of you are already doing, if we were ALL aware of the sordid history of what has already been sponsored by our government agencies, we would be better judges of what is probable/possible. If you are game - start at Ireland and work your way through. Ireland is a testing-ground - know thyself.

Sorry everyone but the Gallaway situation is all of his own making. I expected the usual "Telegraph working for MI6" rubbish and sure enough here it is, but the fact is George let us all down, he took money from the Facists in Iraq, he helped to prop up a regime that was responsible for the torture and death of hundreds of thousands of working people and that is just not right.

We have to accept that he was wrong and should go.

Do you have any proof that Gallaway took money from Saddam? Tory party was the right party for Saddam to use, 97% of the party was and is corrupted, Ms Thatcher was a big example with her son Mark.
My problem is I don't want to rely on Dialy Telegraph as informative newspaper, so do you have other newspapers or links that may suggest Gallaway was his own doing?
To point a finger to somebody you should give some evidence. Something that the journalists of Dialy Telegraph were not able to give as evidence as a proof.
Gallaway may be the kind of man easily to be bribed, if so there'll be some other sources that confirm it, otherwise is only speculation.