Now, this should be interesting:

British MP George Galloway has been challenged to appear before US senators to answer allegations that he received oil allocations from Saddam Hussein.

Mr Galloway denies claims by a Senate committee that he and a French minister were given the right to sell Iraqi oil to reward their support for the regime.

The committee said it would be "pleased" for Mr Galloway to appear at a hearing in Washington on 17 May.

The MP intends to accept the invitation, his spokesman said.

POSTSCRIPT: Background on the controversial Mr. Galloway here.

UPDATE: And speaking of the BBC, Jeff Jarvis seems to be quite taken with the potential of their new developer network, Backstage. [Full disclosure: I've been tangentially -- and I mean very, very tangentially -- involved in the planning and/or development of some of the Beeb's web stuff over the last few years.]