Advisory from George Galloway MP Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Viva Palestina
29 December 2009

Advisory from George Galloway MP
Re: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

I have had several calls from the media about a meeting at which I am alleged to have spoken, organised by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, apparently a former president of the Islamic Society at UCL London.

There is no truth in this. It seems to be based on a YouTube video trailing a series of meetings entitled War on Terror at UCL in which excerpts from my Sky interview with Anna Botting were cut in. This canard was first raised yesterday by an alleged stringer from the New York Times who at first claimed this meeting occurred on January 29, 2007 and then, after a series of emails, said that he had made a ‘typo’ and that the real date was 2008.

To the best of my knowledge I have never met Abdulmutallab. I certainly did not agree to speak at any meeting organised by him and my House of Commons electronic diary confirms that I have not spoken at the UCL Islamic Society in the last three years. Several other of those alleged to have been invited also have no knowledge of any meeting,

This is an attempted smear by someone who has been repeatedly told that there was no truth in the allegation and who cannot provide even a scintilla of ‘evidence’, other than the Youtube video. I could easily produce a YouTube trailer of a meeting at Glasgow Concert Hall where Barack Obama was billed to host a seance where John Lennon would be brought back to life. This would have about the same credibility.

There is no truth in any of this.

George Galloway MP