The latest in the Galloway saga. Funnily enough, it hasn't got half the
coverage that the original allegations received...
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Nick Megoran
> Galloway documents false - US paper
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> http://www.express.co.uk/story.html?story=1&r=10560940987538479
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> A US paper has said documents it relied on in reporting that Iraq
> authorised six payments to Labour MP George Galloway totalling more than
> £6.25 million were fraudulent.
>
> The Christian Science Monitor reported this on its website:
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> "When new information cast doubt on the documents, we conducted an
> extensive investigation of their authenticity.
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> "This has culminated in the virtual certainty that they were forged,"
> Monitor editor Paul Van Slambrouck wrote in the Boston-based newspaper's
> account of its internal investigation of the documents.
>
> On April 25, the Monitor said it had been given documents discovered in
> the Baghdad house of Qusai Hussein, one of Saddam Hussein's two sons, that
> showed Saddam's government authorised six payments to Mr Galloway between
> July 1992 and last January.
>
> According to the newspaper report, a document in January authorised a
> check of $3 million in recognition of Mr Galloway's "courageous and
> daring stands against the enemies of Iraq, like (Tony) Blair, the British
> Prime Minister, and for his opposition in the House of Commons and Lords
> against all outrageous lies against our patient people".
>
> Mr Galloway, a vocal opponent of the war to oust Saddam and a frequent
> visitor to Iraq before the conflict, repeatedly denied receiving payments
> from Iraq and called the Monitor report "fantastically untrue".
>
> The Monitor said an initial investigation of the documents it received
> from a man who identified himself as General Salah Abdel Rasool seemed to
> confirm their authenticity.
>
> But subsequent ink tests showed that the two documents carrying the oldest
> dates - 1992 and 1993 - "were actually written within the past few
> months".
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> The Monitor said the "newest document - dated 2003 - appears to have been
> written at approximately the same time."
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> Mr Galloway has threatened a libel suit against the Monitor. He was
> suspended from the Labour Party on May 6 while it conducted an internal
> investigation.
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