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November 12, 2004

More Money For Suha

"Yasser Arafat's widow, Suha, is expected to receive a sum of $22 million a year out of the Palestinian Authority budget, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere De La Serra..."

"It said Abbas personally promised Suha that she would receive $22 million a year to cover her expenses in Paris. The paper noted that in July Arafat transferred to his wife $11 million to cover her living costs for the first six months of the year. Abbas and the Palestinian leadership were forced to strike the deal with Suha after she refused to allow them to visit her husband in hospital...."

"The Palestinian leaders reached the conclusion that it would be better to make a deal with her in order to solve the crisis surrounding Arafat's possessions and secret bank accounts......"

Read JPost article..........

They can't be talking about all of the money given by countries all over the world and the United Nations for the poor Palestinian people that Saint Arafat was so worried about. Certainly Arafat and his wife have not been misappropriating funds intended for the development of the Palestinian  Nation!

And just can't help but add some of Roger Simon's comments from Wednesday on Arafat:
...........Of course, despite their well known proclivity for conspiracy theories, you can't expect the poor Paleos to know all that much about how they have been raped when the details are continually softened by European and even American news organizations. It was almost other-worldly listening to Juan Williams on Fox News last night calling Arafat a symbol of his people's liberation movement. I guess Juan confused liberation with enslavement. He's not the only one. The biggest enablers in this sadistic game are the Swiss (and other) bankers with their unmarked accounts, which allow dictators to rob their people blind, often with the tacit permission of their supposed "charitable" donors. Isn't it about time these accounts be opened up and declared illegal? Why don't we ask Kofi Annan's help with that?..

Er, maybe better not! He had enough trouble keeping up with the Oil For Food money.

Posted by Hyscience at November 12, 2004 1:04 PM

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