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[[Image:George_Galloway.jpg|right|thumb|200px|George Galloway]]

[[Image:George_Galloway.jpg|right|thumb|200px|George Galloway]]

'''George Galloway''' (August 16, 1954, [[Dundee]]) is an extreme [[left-wing]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] politician and the [[Respect]] Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow, in [[London]] (although he is commonly referred to in the media as the "member for Baghdad North"). He was expelled from the [[Britain|British]] [[Labour party]] in October 2003 for bringing the party into disrepute. The party charged that Galloway incited [[Arab]]s to fight British troops and also incited British troops to defy the orders of their officers. The party's National Constitutional Committee was unanimous in its guilty verdict.<ref>"Labour statement on Galloway" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3208755.stm ''BBC News''] October 23, 2003</ref>

'''George Galloway''' (August 16, 1954, [[Dundee]]) is an extreme [[left-wing]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] politician and the [[Respect]] Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow, in [[London]] (although he is commonly referred to in the media as the "member for Baghdad North"). He was expelled from the [[Britain|British]] [[Labour party]] in October 2003 for bringing the party into disrepute. The party charged that Galloway incited [[Arab]]s to fight British troops and also incited British troops to defy the orders of their officers. The party's National Constitutional Committee was unanimous in its guilty verdict.<ref>"Labour statement on Galloway" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3208755.stm ''BBC News''] October 23, 2003</ref>

[[Image:Galloway traitor.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Allegations of [[Treason]] have been levelled at Galloway]]

[[Image:Galloway traitor.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Allegations of [[Treason]] have been leveled at Galloway]]

Galloway first entered politics aged 26 in his home town, where he ordered the [[PLO]] flag to be flown over the town hall and withdraw the city's civic hospitality to visiting [[NATO]] warships. The political editor of one major [[British]] newspaper has gone on record as saying: "''Galloway is a silver-tongued bully who has always been surrounded by a cloud of suspicion over his shifty activities, his manipulation of other people’s cash and his readiness to punch anyone he could not sue...A congenital liar, his favourite defence trick was total denial. If that failed, he would claim he had been misquoted.''"<ref>'''Kavanagh, Trevor''' "Paid to be a traitor" ''The Sun'' (2006)</ref>

Galloway first entered politics aged 26 in his home town, where he ordered the [[PLO]] flag to be flown over the town hall and withdraw the city's civic hospitality to visiting [[NATO]] warships. The political editor of one major [[British]] newspaper has gone on record as saying: "''Galloway is a silver-tongued bully who has always been surrounded by a cloud of suspicion over his shifty activities, his manipulation of other people’s cash and his readiness to punch anyone he could not sue...A congenital liar, his favourite defence trick was total denial. If that failed, he would claim he had been misquoted.''"<ref>'''Kavanagh, Trevor''' "Paid to be a traitor" ''The Sun'' (2006)</ref>

On June 10, 2007 Galloway was the victim of an attack by 6 men at [[Glasgow]] Airport. He said afterwards: "''It was a terrifying experience and quite disgraceful for these people to behave like this. There was one guy I would describe as a ringleader who said, 'I don't like your radio talk, I don't like your newspaper talk, I have a religious duty to knock you down'.''"<ref>"Galloway tells of mob attack" [http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=911832007 ''The Scotsman''] June 11, 2007</ref>

On June 10, 2007 Galloway was the victim of an attack by 6 men at [[Glasgow]] Airport. He said afterwards: "''It was a terrifying experience and quite disgraceful for these people to behave like this. There was one guy I would describe as a ringleader who said, 'I don't like your radio talk, I don't like your newspaper talk, I have a religious duty to knock you down'.''"<ref>"Galloway tells of mob attack" [http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=911832007 ''The Scotsman''] June 11, 2007</ref>

On July 18, 2007, the [[Daily Mail]] reported that Galloway could face a fresh police inquiry into his financial links to Saddam Hussein's regime.  His response was ''"They should be striking a medal for me. But these are the people who just a couple of weeks ago were giving a tear- stained standing ovation to a man - Tony Blair - who most of the world believes to be a war criminal."'' <ref> [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=468624&in_page_id=1770 Galloway faces new police enquiry into Saddam cash] </ref>

On July 18, 2007, the [[Daily Mail]] reported that Galloway could face a fresh police inquiry into his financial links to Saddam Hussein's regime.  His response was ''"They should be striking a medal for me. But these are the people who just a couple of weeks ago were giving a tear- stained standing ovation to a man - Tony Blair - who most of the world believes to be a war criminal."'' <ref> [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=468624&in_page_id=1770 Galloway faces new police inquiry into Saddam cash] </ref>

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