(Jerusalem Post) Rachel Ehrenfeld - PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad, who recently resigned, was said to be particularly upset because Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei arranged that $350 million being donated to the PA in 2005 is being used to pay 60,000 people in the security services. "We don't know if 10-15,000 of these people are even still working or not," said the head of the parliament's economic committee, Azmi Shuabi. Saadi al-Wahidi, a senior official at the PA's Civil Service Administration, told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda on Nov. 16 that the PA has created a special committee to determine the pension eligibility of all members of Palestinian armed organizations such as the Aksa Martyrs Brigade, the Kassam Brigade, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. The payments will be retroactive and include current and former Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
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