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Showing Original Post only (View all)Remember George Galloway? Badly beaten in street assault in London [View all]
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/30/george-galloway-released-hospital-assault
A man has been charged with religiously aggravated assault after allegedly attacking George Galloway on a London street on Friday evening, police have said.
The Bradford West MP was released from hospital on Saturday morning having suffered a suspected broken jaw and rib as well as facial bruising. Neil Masterson, 39, has been accused of shouting about the Holocaust and attacking him.
The attack, it is claimed, was related to comments Galloway recently made about the conflict in Gaza. The MP was posing for pictures in Notting Hill in west London when the attack took place.
The Bradford West MP was released from hospital on Saturday morning having suffered a suspected broken jaw and rib as well as facial bruising. Neil Masterson, 39, has been accused of shouting about the Holocaust and attacking him.
The attack, it is claimed, was related to comments Galloway recently made about the conflict in Gaza. The MP was posing for pictures in Notting Hill in west London when the attack took place.
This guy was a hero around here during the Iraq war.
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Remember George Galloway? Badly beaten in street assault in London [View all]
superpatriotman
Aug 2014
OP
I agree, but may I ask, why do you despise Galloway? Airc, he has been a consistent
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#36
The difference between terrorism and war is basically a legal distinction.
Threedifferentones
Aug 2014
#48
I'm afraid I completely disagree with that - I think it's a very clear and obvious distinction.
Donald Ian Rankin
Aug 2014
#49
Why nof support Assad? Syrian minorities were vastly better off before the Islamists--
eridani
Aug 2014
#21
Apologetics for a regime that's slaughtered hundreds of thousands in order to hold on to power
11cents
Aug 2014
#27
Your post is so full of 'wrong' I don't know where to start. He is not an 'enthusiastic supporter'
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#37
He's under the DU bus along with all the other people DU used to admire. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Aug 2014
#3
Pretty much. I'm not a Galloway fan and never was all that particularly interested in him. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Aug 2014
#14
The high point for me about him was when he took down the smug Senate Republicans on Iraq.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#20
Good one. Nationality can protect one. But he had trouble in the UK for a while.
freshwest
Aug 2014
#23
And what is incorrect about those statements? We WERE in Korea, in Vietnam, in Iraq, in
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#38
“All the papers seem to imply that you get executed in Iran for being gay. That’s not true.”
tritsofme
Aug 2014
#19
Yes, he has always had the courage to speak the truth. I remember what he did to
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#39
I still like him and see no reason to have changed my mind from the Bush years when he
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#40
He's definitely a leftie. No surprise why some right wing nut would attack him.
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#41
Which ones? I recall him slamming most of the Right Wing dictatorships, many of them
sabrina 1
Sep 2014
#55