Saddam claims were ‘like a dagger through Galloway’s heart’

BRITISH MP George Galloway yesterday described allegations that he was in the secret pay of dictator Saddam Hussein as a “deeply wounding dagger through my political heart.”

Saddam claims were ‘like a dagger through Galloway’s heart’

Giving evidence during his long-awaited libel action against the Daily Telegraph, he said such allegations were “outrageous” and “incredibly damaging.”

A series of articles published in the newspaper in April 2003 - following discovery of documents in Iraq by one of its reporters - “claimed that I had made very substantial secret profits from Saddam Hussein and his regime.”

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