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2003-12-30 Middle East

Debka - Abu Ala Tells Arafat: Enough Is Enough

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Posted by Frank G 2003-12-30 10:36:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm still waiting for an EU politician to wake up to the fact that billions of their tax money have basically gone down the Arafathole while, at least for the past few months, they could have been spending it to help Iraq.

Posted by mhw 2003-12-30 10:43:42 AM|| 2003-12-30 10:43:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Road map" = dead, dead, DEAD.

Advice for GWB: drop it altogether and concentrate on other more pressing (and more important) matters.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-30 10:47:59 AM|| 2003-12-30 10:47:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Everyone here knows that I hold Sharon in contempt.

It's morons like Arafat that enable the Greater Israel crowd.

Let the whole PA collapse. This ought to be fun.

Some people just can't be saved from themselves.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-12-30 11:17:58 AM|| 2003-12-30 11:17:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 mhw, a recent accounting report stated that the EU can only account for 10% of the $120B it spent last year. Arafat is a small time crook compared to the EU MASTERS. If I were an EU member I would not be sending any more 'Dues' to the EU until they cleared up this mess. Ditto for the PA, let them get the money out of Arafats accounts.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-30 11:18:17 AM|| 2003-12-30 11:18:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, Suha needed a new (paris) winter wardrobe. It's not like it went for a bad cause or anything, right?

I hope we're cutting off every bit of aid to the paleo mutts after this.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2003-12-30 11:18:56 AM|| 2003-12-30 11:18:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 an excerpt from the 60 Minutes piece that detailed arafat's wealth. This is why arafat booted him (they call Fayed "Fayyad"):

"Our whole point is to bring it out of control of any one person," [US accountant Jim] Prince says.

That's what happened with the portfolio money, which is now under the control of Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official who Arafat was forced to appoint finance minister last year after crowds began protesting his corrupt regime.

According to Fayyad, "There is corruption out there. There is abuse. There is impropriety, and that's what had to be fixed."

Statements like that have earned Fayyad, a bookish technocrat who spent 20 years in the U.S., a reputation for courage - which was enhanced when he immediately posted the details of Arafat's secret portfolio on the Internet.

Fayyad's investigators are treading softly, well aware that their probe may become too embarrassing for Arafat.

Has he tried to stop them? "We run into obstacles in a number of places, particularly among the old PLO types," Prince says, adding one might draw their own conclusions as to whether his statement includes Arafat himself.

Posted by PlanetDan 2003-12-30 12:48:47 PM|| 2003-12-30 12:48:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This from Israelycool is interesting

"AFatRat puppet and so-called PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia shows that he is in ideological harmony with his puppet master."

Posted by Barry 2003-12-30 2:21:39 PM|| 2003-12-30 2:21:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Poor people in the neighborhood rent him their disposable children to start his car.

That's not funny, that's sick.
/envious

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-30 2:55:08 PM|| 2003-12-30 2:55:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 This from Israelycool is interesting

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Just more evidence that as long as Arafart and/or his cronies are in power, nothing is going to change. NOTHING.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-30 4:20:25 PM|| 2003-12-30 4:20:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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