Posted on 04/02/2002 6:10:04 AM PST by tomahawk
Israeli Defense Forces Uncover Document Linking Arafat Directly to Palestinian Multi-Casualty Suicide Campaign against Israel
It Was Found in Ramallah – in Files of His Personal Accounting
Department at Palestinian Authority Government HQ Document Is Dated September 16, 2001, Five Days After Suicide Attacks on New York and Washington
Costs of Bombs, Bullets, Martyrs’ Posters Are Meticulously Itemized for Arafat’s Approval and Books
Read DEBKAfile’s Full Translation of Document Below
Arafat’s Book-Keeping Department Yields Bill Linking Him to Suicides
2 April: This piece of correspondence was discovered by Israeli troops who went through the files in Yasser Arafat’s personal accounting department in Ramallah. It is an itemized bill signed by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – Palestine, and dated September 16, 2001, exactly five days after the September 11 suicide attacks in the United States.
The document is a routine request for Arafat to approve the daily outlay for the arming of suicides with explosives and ammo, their memorial ceremonies and funeral posters.
It is part of the body of evidence Israeli troops gleaned at Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah and demonstrates that Arafat supervised every last detail of the Palestinian suicide offensive.
Translation into English:
1. Cost of posters for Martyrs of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades: Azam Mazhar, Osama Juabra, Shadi Afouri, Yasser Badawi, Ahad Fares (inserted by hand: NIS2,000).
2. Cost of printed notices, invitations and mourners’ tents (inserted by hand: NIS1,250.
3. Cost of attaching personal photos of these martyrs to wooden panels, plus those of Tabeth Tabeth and Mahmoud al Jamil (inserted by hand: NIS1,000).
4. Cost of memorial ceremonies for martyrs. Memorial ceremonies held for Martyr Azam, Martyr Osama (inserted by hand: NIS6,000)
5. Cost of electrical goods and miscellaneous chemical substances (for manufacturing explosives and bombs – the largest item. (One prepared explosive device – NIS700 at least) We need 5-9 devices per week for the squads in the different regions (inserted by hand: NIS x 4 = NIS20,000 per month)
6. Cost of bullets (cost of Kalashnikov ammo is NIS –8 per bullet; M-16 bullets cost NIS2-2.5 each) We need bullets supplied on a daily basis.
7. Note: Available are 3,000 Kalashnikov bullets @ NIS2 each. We need a sum of money at once to buy them (inserted by hand: NIS22,500 for Kalashnikov bullets – NIS60,000 for M-16 bullets)
In conclusion, glory and pride to those who support our brave resistance against the occupation. Revolution until victory.
Arafat could be mowing down Powell's grandmother right in front of him, in person, with his personal sidearm, and Powell would probably still be calling him "essential to the peace process" and a leader.
Powell is nothing more or less than Clinton's trojan horse. And of course, Clinton was always terrorism's trojan horse.
Reuters will tell you he was not. They called him a 'freedom fighter'.
Why do people on FR (a conservative website) continually try and find some angle of displeasure to hang on Bush? Apparently you and the others here have no trust whatsoever in this administration and instead of realizing that they are working FOR this country and FOR peace every day, many seek to do an OPUS - "if Bush doesn't jump here when I say I will never support him again".
All I can say to these people is that their support is not very strong to begin with because they are constantly putting doubt into the minds of all readers here.
I would like any one of them to tell me what Bush has to gain by not trying to get this mess solved no matter what name he calls Arafat.
Btw, 4 NIS (new Israeli shekels) is about $1.
You hit the nail on the head.
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