George Galloway accuses UK of involvement in Moscow terror attack

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Newly elected MP George Galloway accused the UK of being involved in last week's Moscow terror attack in comments captured by a Kremlin-linked newspaper .

The Rochdale MP accused the US and UK of lying about IS involvement in the attack, which killed at least 139 people and injured around 360, during his YouTube talk show.

In the month following his return. In Parliament, described as a "dark day" for Britain's Jewish community, Mr Galloway espoused conspiracy theories about the death of the Princess of Wales and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

MPs criticized his latest intervention as irresponsible, reckless and playing into the hands of the Kremlin. Foreign Secretary David Cameron also described claims that the West and Ukraine were involved in the Crocus City Hall attack as "completely absurd" in a post on Twitter/X.

In a recent episode of his YouTube channel. Speaking on a chat show, Mr Galloway said: "When the US, UK and others quickly tried to assure me that only Isis (banned in the Russian Federation) had carried out this massacre in Moscow , I automatically realized they were lying.

Galloway's claims were condemned as 'reckless' and 'irresponsible '

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