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Kuwaiti Daily: Arafat Deposited $5.1 Million from U.S. Aid Funds into a Personal Bank Account
MEMRI ^ | June 14 2002

Posted on 06/14/2002 7:56:38 PM PDT by knighthawk

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1 posted on 06/14/2002 7:56:38 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: dennisw; TopQuark; Alouette; OKCSubmariner; veronica; weikel; EU=4th Reich; BrooklynGOP...
Middle East list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

2 posted on 06/14/2002 7:57:17 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
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.
3 posted on 06/14/2002 8:04:07 PM PDT by thegreatbeast
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To: knighthawk
Ah, his real occupation.Full time thief, and part time terrorist.
4 posted on 06/14/2002 8:07:04 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: knighthawk
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?
5 posted on 06/14/2002 8:13:45 PM PDT by McGavin999
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6 posted on 06/14/2002 8:14:09 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: knighthawk
"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......





7 posted on 06/14/2002 8:20:40 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
If this story is true......why can't the US get the money back?
8 posted on 06/14/2002 8:32:48 PM PDT by mickie
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"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"

10 posted on 06/14/2002 8:59:25 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Thinkin' Gal
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)

11 posted on 06/14/2002 9:23:56 PM PDT by xm177e2
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To: knighthawk
Time for an info leaflet drop over the terrorist strongholds. Maybe they will hang him for us.
12 posted on 06/14/2002 9:26:18 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Hey Martha,

Start talking honey!

13 posted on 06/14/2002 10:24:35 PM PDT by zarf
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To: McGavin999
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.
14 posted on 06/14/2002 10:55:47 PM PDT by brat
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To: knighthawk
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?
15 posted on 06/14/2002 11:06:01 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: McGavin999
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.
16 posted on 06/14/2002 11:12:48 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: McGavin999
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.

17 posted on 06/15/2002 1:44:29 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: knighthawk
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.
18 posted on 06/15/2002 1:46:05 AM PDT by goldstategop
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To: mickie
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............

19 posted on 06/15/2002 4:14:30 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: xm177e2
(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.

20 posted on 06/15/2002 4:35:56 AM PDT by JimVT
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