The fall-out continues from Friday’s attack on Moscow concert hall attack in which 139 people were reported dead. Russian officials have directly accused Ukraine and the West of being involved – despite, er, the Islamic State claiming responsibility and releasing video of the atrocity. But in their bid to prove their side of events, the Russian state press is now citing an unlikely ‘expert opinion’.

Step forward George Galloway, the newly-elected MP for Rochdale, who is quoted approvingly at length in Russkaya Gazeta today, giving an ‘expert opinion.’ The quotes appear to be a distilled version of comments which Galloway made on his YouTube channel on Sunday. He suggested to viewers that President Obama could be involved in the Moscow terrorist attack and that the West is ‘lying’ about its involvement. Galloway said:

When the US and the UK and others swiftly tried to re-assure me that it was only ISIS that carried out this mass-murder in Moscow, I knew automatically that they were lying. And now I am working back and here’s what I’m finding. I’m finding, first of all, that no-one, no-one, has explained the unannounced visit of President Barack Obama to meet British political and security officials in 10 Downing Street three days before this terrorist crime was carried out. Working further back, I discover that Victoria Nuland, that harbinger of death, that angel of death, who, if she comes anywhere near you, be sure a civil war is coming in your country. I saw her with my own eyes promise the Russians some nasty surprises in the next few weeks and months. I’m working further back and I discover that the White House spokesman John Kirby announced that American citizens had been warned to stay away from crowded places, including shopping malls and theatres, in the great city of Moscow, the greatest city in Europe, the capital of the largest country on the earth. And I was never that great at mathematics. But I know that one and one makes two. I know that one and two makes three. I know that one and three makes four. And so I have four pieces of evidence in my mind that leads me to believe that the United States, that the Nato allies, and their proxy servant, the state of Ukraine, the remaining state of Ukraine were in fact responsible for this mass murder.

Sadly for Gorgeous George, it appears that news of his triumph in Rochdale is yet to reach Russian stenographers. For he is still listed online and in print as only a ‘former’ member of parliament. Better luck next time George…

Screenshot of the translated English version of the Russkaya Gazeta article