Posted on 11/08/2004 8:00:37 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Suha Arafat, his wife of 13 years and mother of his daughter, seems to have aligned herself with hard-liners who apparently seek to take over the Palestinian leadership in a post-Arafat era, though some Palestinian officials said her motives are more financial. According to a senior official in Arafat's office, she has received monthly payments of $100,000 from Palestinian coffers and is widely believed to have control of vast funds collected by the PLO.
This year, French prosecutors launched a money-laundering probe into transfers of $11.4 million into her accounts. She has refused to talk to reporters about Palestinian finances. Suha Arafat, 41, lives in Paris and has not been to the West Bank or seen her husband since the latest round of Palestinian violence began in 2000.
Some Palestinians have complained Suha Arafat has gained too much power, as she controls the flow of information about her husband's condition and has taken charge of access to the ailing leader.
"She is not part of the Palestinian leadership," Arafat security adviser Jibril Rajoub told Israel's Channel Two TV.
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Shouldn't there be a bag of oats somewhere in that photo?
she kind of looks like Rosemarie from Shallow Hal
Now we know why he went after boys.
She has that "French" look.
She needs a shave!
Foreign Legion?
Looks like she needs a 5 o'clock shave.
If that isn't a profile of Miss Piggy, then I am blind!
MMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!!!
Is she Arab or Euro-trash? Not too many blonde towell heads out there, as I recall.....
i sshe naturally blonde? She dosnt look arab tahts for sure...
Suha has been living too much of the food life in Paris.
She used to look like a Babe. Darling lose some weight, when Daddy's gone I will be happy to Tango with you!!!!!!!
LOL...
I've seen better looking heads on boils!
Bloated, dirty stringy hair, too much makeup, bad complexion, razor rash on her neck, ewwww. Pretty enough for Arafat, though, I guess.
Truthfully, she looks like some of the welfare queens I've seen...or ALMOST that good...
Isn't she supposed to be wearing a scarf. Or a burka?
What a hog. She must be on the Michael Moore exercise program.
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