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Source: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0317/049.html
Auditing Arafat
(Forbes) Nathan Vardi - Money keeps Arafat in power. With a tight grip on much of the $5.5 billion in international aid that has flowed into the PA since 1994, he appears to have overseen virtually all disbursements. An Israeli intelligence report pegs Arafat's personal holdings at $1.3 billion. Arafat created a public sector of 125,000 people consuming $660 million, half the annual budget. This includes $240 million for a security force of 53,000 agents, most of them members of Fatah, Arafat's political party.