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Report: Arafat funnels $100,000 PA aid monthly to wife [who is living in Paris]
Haaretz ^ | 07/11/2003 01:49 | Nathan Guttman

Posted on 11/06/2003 5:49:45 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arafat; israel; roadmap; terrorleader; terrorregime; waronterrorism; whatelseisnew
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1 posted on 11/06/2003 5:49:47 PM PST by yonif
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Ping.
2 posted on 11/06/2003 5:50:02 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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That's what you call a "high maintenance" wife. I just hope no US dollars are involved. Parley
3 posted on 11/06/2003 5:51:28 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: yonif
"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.
4 posted on 11/06/2003 5:53:59 PM PST by Beck_isright (Socialists are like cockroaches. No matter how many die, 300 more are born under every cowpile.)
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To: yonif
Only sending wifey $800 million? He must have a mistress on the side.
5 posted on 11/06/2003 5:54:35 PM PST by Starrgaizr
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To: yonif
Frog banks, no doubt
6 posted on 11/06/2003 5:55:33 PM PST by pointsal
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To: yonif
If it's ok with the UN it's ok with the 9 blind mice!

Pray for GW and The Truth

7 posted on 11/06/2003 5:55:34 PM PST by bray ( Old Glory Stands for Freedom)
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To: yonif
'Nuff SAID!!!

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

Doc

8 posted on 11/06/2003 5:58:04 PM PST by Doc On The Bay
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To: bray
Some of our US money makes up part or even all of that $100,000
9 posted on 11/06/2003 5:59:54 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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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.
10 posted on 11/06/2003 6:02:53 PM PST by Akira (Blessed are the cheesemakers.)
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To: Beck_isright
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.
11 posted on 11/06/2003 6:03:35 PM PST by meenie
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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.
12 posted on 11/06/2003 6:05:31 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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" 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.
13 posted on 11/06/2003 6:06:33 PM PST by Beck_isright (Socialists are like cockroaches. No matter how many die, 300 more are born under every cowpile.)
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To: yonif
If you ask me, she deserves every penny. Just imagine.
14 posted on 11/06/2003 6:12:20 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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"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!

15 posted on 11/06/2003 6:14:36 PM PST by roadcat
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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."

16 posted on 11/06/2003 6:14:47 PM PST by SJackson ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill)
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To: yonif
Well, if you were a ho', how much money would you take to get into bed with this:


17 posted on 11/06/2003 6:19:17 PM PST by Alouette (Neocon Zionist Media Operative)
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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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18 posted on 11/06/2003 6:38:34 PM PST by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Beck_isright
Perhaps much of that EU donation is "protection money."
19 posted on 11/06/2003 6:46:36 PM PST by Shermy
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Ferdinand Marcos
20 posted on 11/06/2003 6:50:04 PM PST by 5veingrafts
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