Bowling Alley to Return Arafat (Palestinian Authority) Investment

[bin.dare]

This is interesting but misleading. The article wants you to believe it is Arafat money. Why would the cited people be upset about PA investment?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4690493,00.html

NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of a popular bowling alley in Greenwich Village said Thursday his company was severing ties with a group tied to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and is returning its $1.3 million investment.

Arafat invested the money in New York-based Strike Holdings, owner of Bowlmor Lanes, through a holding company he created called Onyx Funds, according to Bloomberg Markets Magazine.

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``Effectively as of today the PCSC will have no investments in Strike Holdings,'' he added. The PSCS is a Ramallah-based holding company owned by the Palestinian Authority.

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News of the investment upset some customers at the alley, which advertises itself on its Web site as an ideal location for bar and bat mitzvahs for Jewish teens.
``If I had known, I wouldn't have come, but I promised the kids,'' Steve Saslow, 55, told the Daily News in Thursday editions.

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[soleft]

1. I actually just celebrated my birthday at that Bowling Alley

Who knew?

[Moderator]

2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1094375