Annan: "So he stole the money. So what.
We at the Imperial UN support piracy, slavery, antiSemitism,
and any antiUS behavior. Arafat, like Hitler, fits right in with
present UN principles."
Posted on 08/19/2002 1:31:10 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
August 19, 2002 -- TEL AVIV - An ex-treasurer of the Palestine Liberation Organization has accused Yasser Arafat of taking more than a half-billion dollars in international aid - and transferring it to his personal accounts.
The shocking allegation comes on the heels of an Israeli intelligence report released last week that said Arafat had secretly amassed at least $1.3 billion in bank accounts in Europe, Arab countries, the Far East and the United States.
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Annan: "So he stole the money. So what.
We at the Imperial UN support piracy, slavery, antiSemitism,
and any antiUS behavior. Arafat, like Hitler, fits right in with
present UN principles."
Like get a bath, get his teeth cleaned, buy some breath mints, get some clean uniforms and get some major work done to improve his really, really ugly face.
He'll still be a fat pig, a murderer and a lying pervert but then again money can't buy everthing.
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He's as bad as Suharto in Indonesia, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, etc., etc.
Why is it that scum so consistently rises to the top?
Palestinian chief's aide denies funds shifted into personal account
08/19/2002
JERUSALEM - A former treasurer of the Palestine Liberation Organization accused Yasser Arafat of transferring millions of dollars of international donations into a personal account, according to interviews published Sunday in Israeli newspapers.
The ex-treasurer, Jawad Ghussein, 71, alleged that Mr. Arafat moved up to $8 million to his personal account every month and was aware of widespread corruption, the newspaper accounts said.
Mr. Ghussein spoke to the Israeli dailies Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot in London, where he fled last week. He said he had documents to support his accusations, though none were cited in the newspaper articles. The reports did not say over what years the transfers took place.
Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo denied the allegations and called Mr. Ghussein a "thief" who had stolen $6.5 million from the PLO. He had been under house arrest but managed to flee while receiving medical treatment, Mr. Abed Rabbo said.
The allegations by Mr. Ghussein, who denied the theft charge, come amid international pressure on Mr. Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to reform a leadership that has been accused of rampant corruption since it was established in 1994.
While accusations of corruption are not new, they have not often come from Palestinian insiders. Also, the allegations have rarely been directed at Mr. Arafat personally.
The Palestinian leader has an austere personal lifestyle and displays no trappings of wealth. He is, however, known to personally sign off on even relatively small expenditures by the Palestinian Authority and his Fatah movement.
Mr. Ghussein served until 1996 as secretary-general of the Palestinian National Fund, a position that gave him oversight of PLO finances. He said he resigned to protest corruption, and he never worked for the Palestinian Authority.
"I found out how he [Arafat] took aid money and contributions that were earmarked for the Palestinian people to his own account," Mr. Ghussein told Haaretz.
Yediot Ahronot quoted him as saying that "donating countries began to pressure me and to ask me questions about money that had disappeared, and I couldn't give them the answers."
Mr. Ghussein contends that Palestinian authorities kidnapped him twice in the past year, but Palestinian officials said in both cases he was detained because he stole money from the PLO.
The Palestinian Authority let Mr. Ghussein travel to east Jerusalem for medical treatment last month and from there, he fled to Jordan and then on to London, the newspapers reported.
The Palestinian Authority had confiscated his travel documents, but Israel assisted him and allowed him to travel through its international airport, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior said Sunday.
An Israeli military official alleged last week that Mr. Arafat had amassed a personal fortune of $1.3 billion. The allegation could not be independently confirmed, and Palestinian Authority officials denied it.
Uh, Slick, could we see your deposit receipts from 1993 to 2000, especially those in Swiss francs?????
Shocking to whom? Morons? Leftists?
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Partners in Crime
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Alive and well in Saudi Arabia...
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