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Abbas' Son Has Amassed a Vast Personal Fortune
[Jerusalem Post] Khaled Abu Toameh - Yasser Abbas, the son of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, revealed this week in an interview with the Dubai-based Al-Aswak.net economic magazine that he's a self-made millionaire who started his own business shortly after the signing of the Oslo Accords. Abbas, 46, a Canadian national, arrived in the PA territories in 1996, made his money in construction and real estate, and has a monopoly over the marketing of U.S.-made cigarettes in the West Bank and Gaza.