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A U.S. Senate committee says British Member of Parliament George Galloway may have lied under oath last May when he told the Senate that he didn’t take money from Saddam Hussein. In a new report, the panel says that despite Galloway’s denials, he personally solicited and received eight oil allocations—totaling 23 million barrels—under the corrupt oil-for-food program, and that his wife, Armineh Abu-Zayyad, received $150,000. Galloway dared senators to charge him with perjury, saying, “I am ready to fly to the U.S. today, if necessary, to face such a charge because it is simply false.” Galloway, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, has called Iraqi insurgents “freedom fighters” and British and U.S. troops “Crusader soldiers.”
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