Kuwaiti Daily: Arafat Deposited $5.1 Million from U.S. Aid Funds into a Personal Bank Account

MEMRI ^ | June 14 2002

[knighthawk]

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[thegreatbeast]

Will it make a difference that Arafat is proven a thief? He has to be running out of lives, no? We can only pray...for a good marksman.

[habs4ever]

Ah, his real occupation.Full time thief, and part time terrorist.

[McGavin999]

We've all know this for a very long time. It's interesting that the proof is starting to surface. Wonder how the "Arab Street" is going to feel knowing that their hard earned money is not going to help the Palestinian people but instead is going to Suha to purchase her new wardrobe in Paris?

[Mo1]

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[MeekOneGOP]

"The sources added that the funds that reached the Palestinian Authority from Kuwait and the other Gulf states [meant] for the Committee for the Reconstruction of Hebron Homes, [which were to be distributed to residents of homes] destroyed by Israeli bulldozers during the Intifada, did not reach the people entitled to them. Rather, they were distributed to the PA leaders close to Arafat and to several top officials of the Fatah movement, headed by Arafat."

"The sources added that the citizens entitled to these funds appealed to the head of the committee, a Hebronite from the Al-Qawasmeh family, but received nothing."

"The sources added that most of the food aid sent to the PA was sold in Palestinian and Israeli markets without being distributed to the poor and needy, and the latter began to shout 'at the top of their lungs' that a popular committee must be established for aid distribution, since they had lost all faith in the PA and its apparatuses."

What a scumbag!
He learned from his hillbilly buddies, I think......

[mickie]

If this story is true......why can't the US get the money back?

[Thinkin' Gal]

"The sources added that some weeks ago Muhammad Rashid had bought, on Arafat's instructions, 14% of the shares of the Jordanian Cement Company for the PSCS(1) with funds received by Arafat from the Arab Gulf states, 'to increase the profits of Arafat's investments abroad,' in light of the increase in cement prices following increased demand due to the reconstruction of what the Israeli forces destroyed in their recent incursion into the West Bank cities."

"It's a Good Thing"

[xm177e2]

Martha also probably approves of the embezzlement (she's got troubles of her own with imclone or whatever)

(okay, I'm just kidding, I have no idea if she's even accused of anything)

[doug from upland]

Time for an info leaflet drop over the terrorist strongholds. Maybe they will hang him for us.

[zarf]

Hey Martha,

Start talking honey!

[brat]

I don't think the Palestinian "Arab Street" will ever get to hear it. Its too convenient to blame their poverty on the Jews, even tho it was up to Arafat to build an infrastructure to support labor.

[monkeyshine]

Wow. I'm glad to see a Kuwaiti newspaper coming out with this kind of story. Does the fact that the Kuwaiti government controls the press lend the story any credibility, or is it just a way for the Kuwaiti government to send a message?

[monkeyshine]

Arafat incites other families to violence and devastation all around them, while his own family is safe, far away from the war and the land others are dying and supposedly fighting for. Only a grotesque perversion of decency would allow this arrangement to continue.

[Madame Dufarge]

We've all know this for a very long time. It's interesting that the proof is starting to surface

It is interesting, and coming from an Arab source in Cairo. "Time to go" message to Arafat from his buddies?

The noose seems to be getting a little tighter.

[goldstategop]

And this is this fellow Colon Bowell hailed as the Palestinians "legitimate leader." He sure lives high on the hog even while immiserating his own people with war and terror.

[MeekOneGOP]

If this story is true......why can't the US get the money back?

I double-checked the story and it looks like this is Arab supplied $$$s.
No mention of US aid (although it could have been?):

........this is theft of Arab aid funds allocated to the Palestinians through
an arrangement between Arafat and his Cairo office head Ramzi Khouri."

In any case, it just illustrates once again that he is NOT capable of being a
responsible head of any proposed Palestinian State, imho............

[JimVT]

(okay, I'm just kidding, I have no idea if she's even accused of anything)

I accuse her of being on every g**damned tv channel I turn on to watch cooking shows.

Lord, if I never see that simpleton grin of hers again it will be too soon.