Palestinians demand missing PA money

[drdon326]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1067162510178

"Where are the millions?" is the name of a popular Arab song in which Lebanese singer Julia Botrus denounces the failure of the Arab world to go to war against Israel. The song is played repeatedly on Palestinian Authority radio and TV as a cry of despair aimed at mobilizing the Arab masses on the side of the Palestinians in their fight against Israel.
In recent weeks, amid reports that PA Chairman Yasser Arafat is in poor health, many Palestinians are also beginning to ask the same question, but in a different context: They are demanding to know what has happened to hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to the Palestinian people.

Some Palestinians believe they already know where the money is: in secret bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere.

A group of Palestinian legislators, who form the Democratic Bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, is demanding an investigation into the whereabouts of the huge amounts of money.

Hassan Khraisheh, one of nine members of the Democratic Bloc, said he and his colleagues believe that Arafat's adviser on economic affairs, Muhammad Rashid (also known as Khaled Salam), is holding at least $200 million in a secret bank account. Rashid is now living in Cairo after he reportedly fell out with Arafat.

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tsk,tsk,tsk.....

[drdon326]

1. Before this drops....

"According to a report released last September by the International Monetary Fund, $591m. in tax revenue and an additional $300m. in profits from commercial investments were "diverted away from the budget." In other words, PA officials stole the money."

$ 900,000,000 missing

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. A million here and a million there

Pretty soon you are talking really money.

But it's Arafat and he can do no wrong after all.

[drdon326]

4. Now thats funny.....

i'll say this.....it takes some kind of talent to

steal $ 900,000,000.....damn.

[Adalah]

3. Corrupt government

Never let it be said the Palestinian and Israeli people have nothing in common.