Posted on 12/02/2002 2:09:51 AM PST by chance33_98
IDB: Yemen pays up US$1.5 million to Aqsa Fund
Date : Dec 02, 2002
Jeddah, Ramadhan 26/Dec 1 (IINA) Yemen has deposited a sum of US$ 1.5 million in the account of the Aqsa Fund for helping the Palestinian Intifadha that is held by the the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB). IDB President, Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Ali, said that the deposit is in response to the call made by the Beirut Summit that proposed an increase of US$ 150 million that is needed for helping the Aqsa Intifadha and the development of the Palestinian state.
Oman is also said to have paid in a sum of US$ 3,000,000, while Saudi Arabia has paid US$ 21,000,000.
Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.
We will do so, and the Arabians will play along with the polite fiction until we are ready to strike. They cannot touch us although I do worry about that SS-19 missile field they put in (read about that here somewhere)
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