Man do I love this story. It just keeps getting better and better. From the Telegraph:

A letter from Izzat Ibrahim, Saddam’s deputy on the Ba’ath Party’s Revolutionary Command Council, dated May 6, 2000 stated that: “It is better not to engage the Mukhabarat in the relationship with George Galloway, as he has been a well known politician since 1990, and discovery of his relationship with the Mukhabarat would damage him very much.”