[Cacique]

I'm shocked, I tell you I'm shocked. Never in a million years would I have imagined that there was corruption in the Middle east. What is this world coming to?

[Diogenesis]

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."

[dennisw]

The craven EUropeans backed a typical 3rd world dictator who thieved from his people while crying endlessly about Israeli injustice and "occupation". 

How is Arafat different than any number of other parasites that run an African "nation" and treat it as their personal piggy bank? Or Fernando Marcos ..... who at least did some good for his people. Or Emperor Boukassa?

Cannibal Emperor Bokassa Buried in Central African Republic
Electronic Telegraph 'Cannibal' emperor Bokassa is offered forgiveness in death
By Julian Nundy International News Electronic Telegraph - Tuesday 5 November ...
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[Guillermo]

Those Evil Zionists made him do it.

[I'm_With_Orwell]

Arafat gets caught with his hand in the till and, all of a sudden, it's "oh, I really can stop the bombers. Let's talk about it."

He's as bad as Suharto in Indonesia, Mugabe in Zimbabwe, etc., etc.

Why is it that scum so consistently rises to the top?

[mewzilla]

If Tubby's smart, he won't worry about what the Israelis are going to do to him....

[MeekOneGOP]

Chairman Arafat
Former insider says Arafat took millions

Palestinian chief's aide denies funds shifted into personal account

08/19/2002

Associated Press

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.

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/world/stories/081902dnintcorruption.4fa0b.html

[aShepard]

He alleges that Arafat moved up to $8 million into his personal accounts each month starting in 1993, according to interviews published yesterday in Israeli newspapers.

Uh, Slick, could we see your deposit receipts from 1993 to 2000, especially those in Swiss francs?????

[Mr. Mojo]

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

Shocking to whom? Morons? Leftists?

[OldFriend]

I would like to know how much of that money was shared with slick willie.

[TADSLOS]

Partners in Crime

[dighton]

He's got a wife in Paris to support. Quit pickin' on the guy.

;-)

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a link to another thread on this fact that the NY Slimes and other US maggot infested media will never write about. Makes you wonder how much of that money per month comes to these left wing fishwraps to buy their silence and support for Arafatty! (IDF: Yasser Arafat's personal assets worth $1.3 billion!)

Maybe Arafat, Saddam, the Opecker Princes and the Mullahs of Iran will write a new book, Convincing Islamakazi Maniacs to kill Innocent Jews can make you very rich and famous!

[Grampa Dave]

Je$$ie becomes a new franchise owner in the richest franchise chain in the Middle East: ISLAMAKAZI SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE US!

Je$$e and his buddies Al $harpton and Calyp$o Louie Faracon plan to open several ISLAMAKAZI SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE US! in the US cities they control for the Rat Party. That way they can terrorize the few remaining none rat business in the Goron voting cities. Je$$e predicts a bang up business for the new Black Racist Franchise.