Well when you say I spent time with Bashar al-Assad, you might have added that I spent time with him in Buckingham Palace when he was a guest of Her Majesty the Queen, [al-Assad] literally living in the spare room at Buckingham Palace, the night before going down the Mall in an open-topped coach with Her Majesty on a royal trot round central London. George Gallaway v Piers Morgan, Youtube 2024
My grief is for Syria, for the Syrian people. ibid.
That is not a justification for making matters worse. ibid.
He’s a dictator like all the Arab leaders are dictators. ibid.
Guantanamo Bay is still open. ibid.
Al-Assad’s jails were used as black prisons by us during the War on Terror. ibid.
The double-standard is what I can’t except. ibid.
You cannot play with the terrorist monster. You cannot expect it to stay in the area of operations that you have licensed it to. Armed it to. Funded it to. Proselytised for it to. Propagandised it to. George Galloway, So Sad, Too Bad, MOATS podcast 409, New Year’s Day 2025
We have just put ISIS and al-Qaeda in control of the Mediterranean country of Syria. ibid.