[lit-ideas] Re: Arafat
- From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:05:53 -0500
According to a '60 Minutes' report, Arafat has been sending his wife
$100.000 per month for the past several years. There is enormous amount of
money thought to be missing, and Palestinian accountants are looking into
it.
Veronica
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> Date: 11/4/2004 9:40:43 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Arafat
>
> My personal theory is that he has been being poisoned, slowly.
>
> Julie Krueger
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> > Arafat either is dead, in a coma, or fine, depending on which news
service
>
> http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_10.html
>
> Mrs. Arafat keeps husband on life support - Where's his money?
>
> Special to World Tribune.com - GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM
> Thursday, November 4, 2004
>
> RAMALLAH - Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has died. He
> was 75 years old.
>
> Israeli and Palestinian officials said Arafat died on Thursday in a
> military hospital in Paris. They said Arafat was deemed clinically
> dead, but still attached to life support systems on the insistence of
> his wife, Suha.
>
> "He is dead, but neither Arafat's wife nor the Palestinian leadership
> is ready to announce this," a PA official said. "The announcement
> could take place on Friday."
>
> The problem is that Arafat is still the only Palestinian official who
> can pay the bills. And it is unclear who, if anyone has access to the
> estimated $2-3 billion in his personal Swiss bank accounts, according
> to a report in the current edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.
>
> Arafat continues to hold the purse strings to the Palestinian
> finances. For the last decade, he has been the final, and often only
> word on payment to everybody from the suicide bomber to the janitor.
> Not a dime was paid without Arafat's okay.
>
> Before he left for Paris, Arafat approved a three-member emergency
> committee to operate the PA and PLO in his absence. Official said
> Ahmed Qurei was meant to run the PA's daily affairs while Mahmoud
> Abbas was appointed acting chairman of the PLO.
>
> Palestine National Council chairman Salim Zaanoun, the third member
> of the committee, was said to be a symbolic figure.
>
> Abbas and Qurei sought to acquire Arafat's power to allocate money
> during the absence of the PA chairman. But as he boarded a Jordanian
> Air Force helicopter for Amman, Arafat refused.
>
> "I'm still alive, thank God, so don't worry," Arafat was quoted as
> saying.
>
> Israeli officials confirmed that Arafat died on Thursday. They said
> Arafat was termed brain dead and physicians have stopped attending to
> him.
>
> For Palestinians, the main question is where is Arafat's money?
>
> Issam Abu Issa knows how Arafat appropriated and concealed money. Abu
> Issa was the founder and chairman of the Palestine International Bank
> from 1996 until he fled to Qatar in 2000.
>
> "Rather than use donor funds for their intended purposes, Arafat
> regularly diverted money to his own accounts," Abu Issa said in a
> report for Middle East Quarterly. "It is amazing that some U.S.
> officials still see the Palestinian Authority as a partner even after
> U.S. congressional records revealed authenticated PLO papers signed
> by Arafat in which he instructed his staff to divert donors' money to
> projects benefiting himself, his family and his associates."
>
> Arafat controls billions of dollars meant for the Palestinian people.
> In a word, he stole it, intelligence sources said, according to a
> report in the current edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.
>
> His personal fortune has been estimated at between $2 and $3 billion,
> most of it in Swiss bank accounts.
>
> In 1997, the PA auditor's office said in its financial report that
> $326 million, or 43 percent of the annual budget, was "missing."
>
> The United States has been supporting former PA security chief
> Mohammed Dahlan as Arafat's successor. To his friends in the Bush
> administration, Dahlan, 43, has all the qualities for Arab
> leadership: a smooth talker and brutal cop. Arafat asked Dahlan to
> accompany him to Paris in a move designed to keep him out of the Gaza
> Strip and any coup plot.
>
> Another challenger has been Fatah Secretary-general Marwan Barghouti,
> sentenced to life in prison for a series of terrorist attacks.
> Barghouti, 44, has followers in the West Bank but does not appear to
> have the iron will necessary to face Arafat loyalists.
>
> Neither Israeli nor PA officials have been told much about Arafat's
> condition, and the only one authorized to issue information from his
> hospital bedside is the chairman's wife, Suha.
>
> And Suha wants to keep Arafat alive for as long as possible to find
> out where his money is.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In terrorism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ed Carp <erc@xxxx> wrote:
> > Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was Thursday "brain dead" and
> breathing
> > only thanks to artificial life support systems, a French medical
> source
> > said after conflicting reports as to whether he was alive or dead.
> >
> > In strictly technical terms, Arafat was "not dead," the source told
> AFP
> > on condition of confidentiality, adding that the 75-year-old leader
> had
> > slipped into an irreversible coma and could only be maintained in
> his
> > vegetative state through ventilation machines.
> >
> > http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1385543,00.html
>
>
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