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| Palestinian High Court unfreezes terror funds | |
| 2004-03-21 | |
| JPost - Reg Req’d - Guess Yasser needs $ to buy the new spring line of boomer belts - in pastels The Palestinian High Court of Justice on Sunday unfroze the accounts of nine Palestinian charities that the United States and Israel suspect fund terror groups.
"Roadmap, schmoadmap" Israel has said the charities channel funds from abroad to the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have carried out dozens of suicide bombings during more than three years of fighting with Israel. The first stage of the U.S.-backed and won’t In its ruling Sunday, the Palestinian court said that it found no legal reason for the continued freezing of the groups’ accounts. The decision came in light of a new procedure that will empower the Palestinian Monetary Authority, which oversees the administration of banks, to inspect the charities’ distribution of funds. meaning the PMA gets their cut The Palestinian Authority must grant final approval to the court’s decision. It was not immediately clear if this approval would come. The authority has not approved several recent High Court decisions related to Palestinian militants. meaning the PA will get their cut When the accounts were frozen last Aug. 24, then-Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas said he believed that two of the charities - Al Jamiya Al Islamiya and As-Salah - were fronts for Hamas. At the time, Bush froze the U.S. accounts of five Palestinian charities, including those working with the two groups. The chairman of As-Salah, Ahmed Kurad, denied Sunday that his group, which assists an estimated 5,000 Palestinians, was related to Hamas. "no, no, we’re Islamic Jihad" "We are working to help our Palestinian people, the poor families," Kurad said. "All allegations that we belong to this or that party are false." then his lips, well, you know... The Palestinian Authority’s decision to freeze the accounts last summer sparked angry demonstrations by poor Palestinians. with Hamas gun barrels in their backs The other seven charities whose accounts were unfrozen were: the Islamic Young Women’s Association, the Social Care Committee, the Palestinian Student Friends Association, the Islamic Charity for Zakat, Al Mujamma Al Islami, Al Nour Charity Association and Al Aqsa Charity Association. sounds clean to me | |
| Posted by:Frank G |