Does the senate hearing mark the end of the affair?
Mr Galloway is regarded as a minor player in the senate sub-committee’s investig-ation. The main purpose of the investigation is to demonstrate the weakness of the United Nations. Mr Coleman has already called for the resignation of the organisation’s secretary-general, Kofi Annan. But, with so many US Congressional inquiries into Iraq’s finances under Saddam under way and with so many British journalists sore that they have failed to nail Mr Galloway after two decades of controversy, the issue is not going to go away. The relationship between Mr Galloway and Mr Zureikat will continue to be explored, especially if, as Mr Galloway hinted yesterday, his friend is prosecuted. Mr Coleman, at a press conference after yesterday’s hearing, said there would be “consequences” if Mr Galloway was found to have lied to the hearing. But the bottom line, as Mr Galloway pointed out, is that neither the senator nor anyone else was able to provide any evidence in the form of bank accounts or any other
