Apparently Galloway is only the very small tip of a very large iceberg. I wonder just how much of Saddam's undercover propaganda machine will be revealed? Could be verrrry embarrassing to the 4th estate, among others.
I am excerpting only a tiny bit of this long and revealing article, the whole thing is definitely worth a read.
Saddam's Cash
From the May 5, 2003 issue: And the journalists and politicians he bought with it.
by Stephen F. Hayes
05/05/2003, Volume 008, Issue 33
weeklystandard.com 
SALAMA NIMAT, the Jordanian journalist, says it's not just Arab journalists who took money. "The Western media has been playing the game, too, including Americans."
In Dearborn, Michigan, one radio station has for years broadcast a weekly, two-hour pro-Saddam program. According to Iraqi Americans who monitored the broadcasts, each program began with the Baath party anthem.
Ismail Mansour, a Pentagon-trained Iraqi American working with coalition forces in Iraq, says the regime's money reached well inside the United States, going to journalists and others. "In America, Saddam friends give money and they make protest," he says. "In the Arab world, it's the same thing. They pay money to do that."
One of those "Saddam friends" is Shakir al-Khafaji, an Iraqi-American businessman from Detroit. Since 1992, al-Khafaji has served as president of the regime-backed Expatriate Conferences, held in Baghdad every other year. The government provided subsidized travel for Iraqis living outside of the country. |
