Posted on 11/09/2004 5:16:41 PM PST by gopwinsin04
Tuesday, November 11, Suha Arafat's French lawyers and former Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas struck a deal.
The settlement allowed a funeral to be arranged on 'Orphans Friday' of Ramadan, November 12--unless a new crisis pops up. Our sources have seen some of the principal terms of the Palestinian accord with Suha Arafat.
The widow will attend the funeral. Abu Mazen insisted on her following the Palestinian leaders bier for sake of appearances.
Last July, Yassir Arafat sent his wife $11 million to cover her 'living expenses' and those of her daughter for six months-$1.8 million per month. The new accord guarantees her the same allowance from the Palestinian Authority as a regular annual remittance, $22 million per annum for the rest of her life.
Abu Mazen and Abu Ala signed on the dotted line, although they have no notion how the peniless Palestinian Authority faced with people in dire poverty can possibly raise that kind of money. (without Arafat's rumoured 9 Billion in embezzled Swiss bank account numbers, supposedly known only to him)
Debkafile's global security sources offer an exclusive peek at Suha Arafat's lifestyle in the French capital. She owns a tony villa on one of the most elegantly posh streets in the world, Rue Fatborg St. Honore, while also maintaining a lavish private suite at the Hotel De Bristol, which claims to outclass the Paris Ritz, the Four Seasons and even the George V Hotel.
The upkeep of this Bristol suite she maintains for 'business' was included in her widows 'pension' from the PA.
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They will I assure you, her husband was the only reason she wasn't whacked thus far I figure.
Do you suppose the people know? If I was one of them, I'd be so freakin mad, all the money was supposed to be going to help the people, building schools, hospitals, sewer system, etc. just like in Iraq.
And keep quiet on Arafat having AIDS.
However short long it might be.
Interesting theory there, now that would make some sense..
eeeeeewwwwww!
Suha needs a new pair of Jimmy Choos!
Some of them know. Some of them are too terrified to do anything about it. A lot of them are in on it. And the rest don't want to know since being victimized by your own leadership isn't exactly beneficial for already low self-esteem.
Not a bad deal!
Take the money and run..my advise to Suha, probably to Aregntina or Rio!
I can see how that description would apply. Arafat is creepy! Can't believe anyone would or could marry for money but I know some people will do it!
Exactly!! Arafat has always looked scummy and nasty! Barf!!
To heck with his looks, the man's a butcher...
Boy George....
that's what I was thinking - she looks like a drag queen
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