And you thought the Fatah corruption died with Arafat?
If you thought that corruption in Fatah and the 'Palestinian Authority' died with Yasser Arafat, you're a fool. Former Arafat aide Mohamed Rashid, who was sentenced in absentia last week to 15 years in prison for corruption, claims he has the paperwork to prove that Fatah has a secret $39 million bank account in Jordan. Rashid said that the original sum was $44 million, but dropped after the Fatah leadership spent $5 million on the faction's sixth annual conference.Of course, this is small change compared with what Arafat stashed in Switzerland....
Rashid, who was Arafat's "moneyman" for many years, said he had all the necessary documents to prove the existence of the bank account.
He said that only PA President Mahmoud Abbas and two of his associates were authorized to deal with the secret account.
"According to my documents, $13 million came for the US, while the remaining sum came from friendly Arab countries," Rashid said. He challenged Abbas to deny the existence of the account, saying he would then reveal the identity of the two associates and the name of the bank and the Arab countries that deposited the money.
By the way, Rashid is an Iraqi Kurd. Who are the 'Palestinians' anyway?
Labels: Abu Mazen, Jordan, Mohamed Rashid, Palestinian Authority corruption
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:58 AM
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"By the way, Rashid is an Iraqi Kurd. Who are the 'Palestinians' anyway?"
Good question. Yasser Arafat was born, grew up and attended university in Cairo. Hasan Nasrallah was born and raised in Lebanon. No doubt, there's many other 'Palestinian' 'leaders' born elsewhere but I don't feel like looking them up.
To borrow and modify a Churchill quote, 'Palestine' is a geographic abstraction, like 'Equator'. That being the case, it's 'Citizens' can therefore come from anywhere: Disneyland, Tropic of Cancer, South Pole, Lilliput...
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