HALF of the 4,500 companies in the UN oil-for-food programme, including Volvo and Daimler Chrysler, paid €1.5 billion in kickbacks and illicit surcharges to Saddam Hussein’s government, a UN report has concluded.

George Galloway has been accused once again of receiving kickbacks from Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food programme.

BRITISH politician George Galloway yesterday challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.

LABOUR rebel George Galloway has regularly been a thorn in the side of both the Prime Minister and some sections of the media.