Shock win for Labour Iraq rebel
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 Respect Party member George Galloway wins re-election to parliament, blasts Tony Blair for going to war in Iraq.
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 All the people you have killed and all the loss of life have come back to haunt you, and the best thing that the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning. 
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LONDON, England -- A fiercely anti-war lawmaker expelled from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party won re-election to parliament as an independent, saying in an angry acceptance speech, "Mr. Blair, this is for Iraq."
George Galloway, a radical ousted from the Labour party for attacking Blair over the Iraq war, snatched victory Friday in a Labour stronghold seat where Muslims make up half the population.
Galloway took Bethnal Green and Bow in east London, which is dominated by Muslims of Bangladeshi origin, for the Respect party after the most heated battle of the UK election.
The win by the flamboyant Scot, nicknamed "Gorgeous George" for his permanent tan and smart suits, over Labour's Oona King, a black candidate of Jewish origin who had a 10,057-vote majority, was a stunning reverse for the ruling party.
Galloway declared his victory as a victory for Iraq.
"All the people you killed, all the lies you told, have come back to haunt you," Galloway said in a message to prime minister Blair.
"The best thing the Labour party could do is sack you tomorrow morning," he said to cheers from the audience.
Galloway, a former Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin, slammed King as a "poodle" for supporting the war while she ridiculed him for travelling to Iraq before the invasion and praising President Saddam Hussein.
The contest was one of the most fascinating of an otherwise fairly dull election campaign and was also the nastiest.
On one evening, King had the tires of her cars slashed and was pelted with eggs. Police also had to be called after Galloway was targeted by radical Muslims opposed to the very idea of voting.
Around 20 young British Islamists broke into a meeting at a London mosque and shouted abuse about both Galloway and Blair. They urged Muslims to boycott the election, saying they would go to Hell if they voted.
But on the evening, both candidates shook hands and remained gracious.
"Oona King is an able person who will be back in politics and in parliament," Galloway said. "The defeat was not her defeat this evening. It was a defeat for Tony Blair and New Labour and all of the betrayals."
Galloway's victory is indicative of the dissatisfaction felt generally among many of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims.
They voted for the center-left Blair en masse in 2001 but are now bitter, both over Iraq and a percestigmatizationation of them since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Although making up more than 2.5 percent of the British population, there are only two Muslim legislators in parliament. Some 52 Muslim candidates were standing this time.
Galloway's win gives the outspoken lawmaker a platform to continue needling the prime minister, who won a third term in office. Voters sharply reduced Labour's House of Commons majority, partly because of anger over Iraq.
Galloway was infamous for telling Saddam Hussein during a 1994 visit to Iraq: "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."
He later said he had been referring to the Iraqi people, not their leader.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
