For immediate use.....October 4


Galloway welcomes Justice referral


The Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway is engaging US lawyers in his fight to clear his name of the smears levelled by Senator Norm Coleman and his Senate committee. The senator announced yesterday that he had sent a dossier of allegations against the MP to US and British authorities.

"As I've said for weeks now, I welcome the opportunity to clear my name of the outrageous lies this opportunistic no-mark has levelled against me," Galloway said. "I have never benefitted directly or indirectly from any oil-for-food deal. If this comes to court I will clear my name and humiliate this numpty once again."

Galloway said that he would be demanding that the alleged sources - anonymous or named - quoted in the report be produced in any court case against him. "Tariq Aziz has already said that he has never, despite what Coleman says, incriminated me. And this from a man who has been held in who-knows-what conditions in a dungeon in Iraq for two-and-a-half years. The rest of his 'evidence' is from anonymous people and dodgy documents. This will all be forensically examined in any court of law and exposed for the invention it is."

Coleman has alleged that there is probable cause that the MP misled his committee in his appearance in May and that this could lead to a prosecution for perjury. "I don't believe, despite Abu Ghraib and all those 'black' prison camps in Eastern Europe, that American justice has been totally corrupted," Galloway added.

He said that in the next few days one of his staff would be flying to the United States to meet with lawyers who had offered their services.

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Neil Williams
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