Posted on 11/24/2004 11:28:32 AM PST by El Oviedo
THE late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat controlled a network of companies, investments and bank accounts with a value totalling at least $1.9 billion, according to the Austrian business magazine Format.
Quoting a Central Intelligence Agency report, it said yesterday the CIA had conducted inquiries after receiving information that a holding company of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation had invested $11.6 million in a small pharmaceutical company in the Canadian town of Belleville, Ontario.
Format said investigators had "stepped on an anthill" when they uncovered the stake held by the Palestinian Commercial Service Corporation in Bioniche Life Sciences.
They uncovered a whole network of PLO funds such as Chalcedony, Onyx, Evergreen, SilverHaze and Avmax International, the latter based on the Caribbean island Aruba.
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That is about $.9bn more than McCartney has made. Not bad for a musician who can't play any instruments.
Anti Aids. They failed.
Anti Aids. They failed.
BUMP!
No wonder Suha raced to the hospital to monitor her ailing AIDS-infested terrorist husband.
the same CIA that could not find weapons in Libya, Iran or Iraq has found laundered billions? not likely, but it shows how stupid are the arabs to think the CIA is that good.
Oh, No! Now how will Suha get her $ 22,000,000 a year in queen-of-the-palestinians money??
Very good and encouraging news about the overhaul at the CIA if this is true. I'm unfamiliar with this source. How reliable is it?
Maybe Arafat "invested" in them so they could find a cure for AIDS... but only for him...
ping
"Gee, what did HE get out of the deal? Young, enthusiastic, Palestinian boys."
Exactly!
What are the odds. No wonder DemocRATS are so keen on Americans buying drugs from Canuckistan.
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