Report: Arafat funnels $100,000 PA aid monthly to wife [who is living in Paris]

Haaretz ^ | 07/11/2003 01:49 | Nathan Guttman

[yonif]

Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat transfers $100,000 from funds directed to the Palestinian Authority to his wife Suha who lives in Paris along with the couple's daughter, according to an investigative report conducted by CBS television show 60 Minutes, to be aired Sunday accross the United States.

According to the report, Arafat has accumulated in his private accounts more than $800 million from aid originally appropriated to the Palestinian authority.

PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad aided in the CBS investigation. Fayad is currently trying to track down all the PA-allocated money that never reached its intended destination.

[yonif]

Ping.

[Parley Baer]

That's what you call a "high maintenance" wife. I just hope no US dollars are involved. Parley

[Beck_isright]

"Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat transfers $100,000 from funds directed to the Palestinian Authority to his wife Suha who lives in Paris"

Your tax dollars at work.

[Starrgaizr]

Only sending wifey $800 million? He must have a mistress on the side.

[pointsal]

Frog banks, no doubt

[bray]

If it's ok with the UN it's ok with the 9 blind mice!

Pray for GW and The Truth

[Doc On The Bay]

'Nuff SAID!!!

In a Civilized Nation, Arafat would be HUNG!!!

Doc

[yonif]

Some of our US money makes up part or even all of that $100,000

[Akira]

Forbes magazine estimates his wealth at over $300 million, so it's the least he can do.

$300 million with many of his "people" living in squalor, with the refugee problem the sole fault of the Zionists. What an absolute joke.

[meenie]

It's no wonder the Palis feel so slighted by the United States. Imagine how much he could be sending his bride if the US was ponying up as much to him as they do to Israel. A question: Does the US ever check on where the tax moneys we send in foreign aid goes and how it's being spent? I would think that there would be strings attached and an ability to monitor those funds. A better idea: Forget about the give-a-ways and we won't have to worry about how it is being spent.

[yonif]

Nope. Most of it is direct to the Palestinian Authority terrorist regime. We have given over a half a billion dollars to the PLO Terror Regime in the last one year which seeks to murder Israelis and Americans.

[Beck_isright]

" Does the US ever check on where the tax moneys we send in foreign aid goes and how it's being spent?"

No. For proof look at France 50 years later.

[Arkinsaw]

If you ask me, she deserves every penny. Just imagine.

[roadcat]

"We have given over a half a billion dollars to the PLO Terror Regime in the last one year which seeks to murder Israelis and Americans."

The least we could do is to demand that his wife and daughter move to the U.S.A., and spend those $300 Millions here. Buy American!

[SJackson]

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Let them eat pita?; verbal jousting; pretenders to the throne? [Suha Arafat in Paris]

NEW YORK — Palestinian First Lady Suha Arafat — whose husband regularly duns governments in the Middle East and Europe to help his poverty-stricken people — is living in Paris on $100,000 a month from Palestinian Authority coffers. And Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has amassed a personal fortune estimated at between $1 billion and $3 billion.

CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl offers those and other choice nuggets this Sunday on "60 Minutes." Stahl told me exclusively Wednesday that Suha Arafat's mother, Raymonda Tawil, is also living lavishly — apparently off international largesse and the Palestinian taxpayers.

"I have visited Suha's mother and she lives very well," Stahl said. "On our last trip to Paris, we looked for Suha but we didn't find her. I heard that the French took away her bodyguards and that Palestinian bodyguards now protect her."

Rumors of the 40-year-old Suha Arafat's extravagance — and her 74-year-old husband's use of public funds to pay her expenses — have been circulating for years in the Arab world and beyond.

"The last I heard, she was living in the Bristol Hotel, which is regarded as one of the premier hotels — if not THE premier hotel — in Paris," a highly placed Arab source tells me. "It is not far from the Elysee Palace and the American Embassy and the fashionable shopping district, Rue St. Honore. I understand that she has a whole floor to herself and her entourage, and that she has been living there for over a year. Must be quite expensive, especially given the financial situation of the Palestinians. . . . And that does not include shopping and dining!"

The switchboard operator at the Bristol, where a suite and 19 rooms go for $16,000 a night, told this column yesterday: "There is no one listed under the last name Arafat at the hotel."

A Paris-based letter-writer, Eli Tabori, told the Jerusalem Post last year that Suha was said to be living with Arafat's 8-year-old daughter Zahwa "in the fashionable Neuilly quarter . . . protected from the ill-doings of her husband." Tabori added: "While Europeans find it hard to make ends meet under the yoke of their respective EU tax systems, she shops for jewelry in the Place Vendome and frequents chic boutiques."

Asked by the French magazine Le Parisien why their daughter was born in Paris, Suha Arafat explained: "Our child was conceived in Gaza, but sanitary conditions there are terrible."

[Alouette]

Well, if you were a ho', how much money would you take to get into bed with this:

[Salem]

Bookmark ones like this, for evidence to throw in the face of Israel's attackers after the IDF finally rolls this little bandit. Note well SJackson's addendum at 16.

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[Shermy]

Perhaps much of that EU donation is "protection money."

[5veingrafts]

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