According to this official record, Galloway did not give a statement.

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The following is from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security

and

Governmental Affairs According to this official record, Galloway did

not give a statement.

 

 

http://hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail & HearingID=232

 

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Title: Oil For Influence: How Saddam Used Oil to Reward Politicians

Under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program

5/17/05

Time (EST): 9:30 AM

Place: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 106

 

This hearing originally scheduled to be held in room SD-562 will now be

held in room SD-106.

 

The May 17th hearing will be third hearing the Permanent Subcommittee

on

Investigations has held on the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Program

( " OFF Program " ). The Subcommittee's first hearing on the OFF Program

laid the foundation for future hearings by describing how the OFF

Program was exploited by Saddam Hussein. A second hearing examined the

operations of the independent inspection agents retained by the United

Nations in the OFF Program and examined issues related to inadequate

management, audit, and procurement oversight. The hearing also examined

issues related to why the U.S. and U.N. did not interfere with Iraq's

open exports of oil to Jordan and Turkey, in violation of U.N.

sanctions. The May 17th hearing will detail how Saddam Hussein

manipulated the OFF Program to win influence and reward friends in

order

to undermine sanctions. In particular, this hearing will present

evidence detailing how Saddam rewarded foreign officials with lucrative

oil allocations that could be converted to money. The hearing will also

examine the illegal surcharges paid on Iraqi oil sales, using examples

involving the recently indicted U.S. company, Bayoil. In addition, more

detailed information will be provided on the nature and extent of the

2003 Khor al-Amaya incident in which oil tankers loaded a large amount

of Iraqi oil circumventing U.N. sanctions.

 

PANEL THREE WITNESSES DID NOT TESTIFY TODAY BUT WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO

APPEAR AT A LATER DATE.

 

To view the PSI Staff reports click on the OFF Reports link below and

scroll down to the Related Files section.

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Hearing File: OFF Reports

 

Member Statements

Senator Norm Coleman [View PDF] Senator Carl Levin [View

PDF]

 

Witnesses Testimony

 

Panel 1

Mark L. Greenblatt [View PDF] , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent

Subcommittee on Investigations

Steven A. Groves [View PDF] , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent

Subcommittee on Investigations

Dan M. Berkovitz [View PDF] , Counsel to the Minority , U. S.

Senate

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

 

Panel 2

George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow ,

Great Britain

Mr Galloway did not submit a statement

 

Panel 3

Thomas A. Schweich [View PDF] , Chief of Staff, U.S. Mission to the

United Nations , U. S. Department of State

Robert W. Werner [View PDF] , Director, Office of Foreign Assets

Control , U. S. Department of the Treasury

Peter Reddaway [View PDF] , Professor Emeritus of Political Science

and International Affairs , George Washington University

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