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Arafat's Busted Flush - Morgan Strong


(UPI) - The reason Arafat is still in power is that the old guard he has appointed to positions in his cabinet are making a killing from those posts. They have managed to squirrel away millions from the funding given to the PA throughout the last several years. The PA was corrupt before it ever became a government. The PLO was corrupt in Amman, Beirut, and Tunis. All of the various Palestinian groups presumably fighting for the liberation of Palestine were profit-making enterprises. Abu Bakr, the number two man in the Abu Nidal Group, told me that Abu Nidal had a portfolio of millions earned through extortion and bribes, invested in the United States.
2002-11-11 00:00:00
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