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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Jamie B on August 28, 2012, 02:23:09 PM
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=160181866&ft=1&f=
Report: France Opens Murder Probe In Arafat Death
PARIS (AP) — A judicial official has told the Sipa news agency that French prosecutors have opened a murder investigation into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Seriously? After 8 years?
It doesn't take much imagination to guess that it was the Mossad....
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Are we going to give the killer a reward?
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mossad? you do know who made yasser one of the richest men in the world?
he was kinda like thurgood marshall to lbj
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Really!? Do you have a link?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18560_162-582487.html
"Arafat for years would cry poor, saying, 'I can't pay the salaries, we're gonna have a disaster here, the Palestinian economy is going to collapse,'" says Indyk. "And we would all mouth those words: 'The Palestinian economy is going to collapse if we don't do something about this.' But at the same time, he's accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars."
The stockpile went well beyond the portfolio. Arafat accumulated another $1 billion with the help of -- of all people -- the Israelis. Under the Oslo Accords, it was agreed that Israel would collect sales taxes on goods purchased by Palestinians and transfer those funds to the Palestinian treasury. But instead, Indyk says, "that money is transferred to Yasser Arafat to, amongst other places, bank accounts which he maintains off-line in Israel."
Until three years ago, Israel put the tax revenues into Arafat's account at Bank Leumi in downtown Tel Aviv, no questions asked. But why?
According to Indyk, "The Israelis came to us and said, basically, 'Arafat's job is to clean up Gaza. It's going to be a difficult job. He needs walking-around money,' because the assumption was that he would use it to get control of all of these terrorists who'd been operating in these areas for decades."
Obviously, that hasn't happened. No one knows this better than Dennis Ross, who was Middle East negotiator for the first President Bush and President Clinton, and now heads the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He says Arafat's "walking-around money" financed a vast patronage system.
"I used to see that people came in, you know, with their requests," Ross says. "'I need a phone. I need an operation. I need a job.' Arafat had money to dispense."
Like a Chicago ward boss, he still doles out oodles of money; Fayyad says he pays his security forces alone $20 million a month, all of it in cash.
All told, U.S. officials estimate Arafat's personal nest egg at between $1 billion and $3 billion.
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Interesting, CSD - thanks!
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Thieving, murderous bastard.
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AIDS is a more plausible explanation than murder. About as much evidence.
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AIDS is a more plausible explanation than murder. About as much evidence.
Haha, right - the early stories of assassination that were bought off with millions and the presence of polonium 210 aren't plausible explanations. No, an Israeli media plant is all that we should accept when it comes to Palestinians!
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This is gross. The culprit should really be hanged and may his soul never rest in peace. [ar15]
Considering all the innocent blood on his hands I understand the sentiment, but since Arafat's been dead for years, hanging that crooked, murderous terrorist's decaying corpse would be silly.
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New member, one post that doesn't really make sense. Ad in sig. Google search with that username produces a list of forums with the same MO.
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Check out its new sig line.
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Too late, I got rid of it.
Chris
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Come now. Do share what our latest guest was up to.
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Houses for lease or some such thing.
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Borrrrring. Sigh.