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Beacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-05 07:10 PM
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Galloway was awarded damages for OFF article
from wikipedia:

"On April 22, 2003, the Daily Telegraph published an article describing documents which the paper claimed had been found by its reporter David Blair in the ruins of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. The documents purport to be records of meetings between Galloway and Iraqi intelligence agents, and state that he had received £375,000 per year from the proceeds of the Oil for Food programme <4> ( Galloway completely denied the story, insisting that the documents were forgeries, and pointing to the questionable nature of the discovery within an unguarded bombed-out building. He instigated legal action against the newspaper, which was heard in the High Court from November 14, 2004 (HQ03X0206, George Galloway MP vs. Telegraph Group Ltd.) On December 2, Justice David Eady ruled that the story had been "seriously defamatory", and that the Telegraph was "obliged to compensate Mr Galloway... and to make an award for the purposes of restoring his reputation". Galloway was awarded £150,000 damages plus costs estimated to total £1.2 million. In UK libel cases, the winning party is also normally awarded costs, with the loser paying the bill. The court did not grant leave to appeal; in order to appeal in the absence of leave, the defendants would have to petition the House of Lords."



wasn't this the same document that Normie was trying to use to smear Galloway?
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-05 07:19 PM
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1. It would make sense that the buffoons in charge...
would not do the homework that could have saved them from the tongue-lashing they so richly deserved, and received today.
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Beacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-17-05 07:21 PM
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2. This just adds a scoop of ice cream
to that slice of crow pie on the way to Normies table right about now.

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