Search for convicted PA embezzler leads to Canada

[King_David]

Wanted Arafat adviser Muhammad Rashid believed to be traveling on Canadian passport, but Ottawa says there is little it can do

The search for Muhammad Rashid, a former adviser and confidante of deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who was convicted in absentia of embezzling $34 million from the Palestinian Authority, has led to Canada.

According to a report published in The Globe and Mail Monday, the Palestinian Authority has asked Ottawa for help in tracking down Rashid, who has held a Canadian passport since 2003 and who maintains business ties with the country.


http://www.timesofisrael.com/search-for-convicted-pa-embezzler-leads-to-canada/

[delrem]

1. Even as a Canadian I'll allow that this might be a good case for predator drones

armed with hellfire missiles.

OK OK, maybe I'm just a little taken by the cool naming system for US weaponry. Have been ever since the "MX Peacekeeper" days (well, imagine a battery of 50 MIRVs each with 10x300K nuclear warheads aimed at your favorite boogieman! whoo! Talk about being SAFE). The people who come up with such pop-names have to be way altogether gone into it - like totally involved artists.

What I esp. like about the predator/hellfire naming system is that the inhabitants of the countries which get "secretly" (haha) attacked with these things attain to a special kind of bonding experience, which thay can associate with the cool names. Lest they forget, y'know? I couldn't wish for more for the laid-back Canadian citizen than to be recipient of such a thrill. So who knows, maybe this embezzler might prove a turning point - might prove the need for benevolent foreign intervention, since Canada has admitted there's next to nothing it can do.

Any better options?

[azurnoir]

2. alas Canada wil er can not help what a surprise indeed :)

However, the Canadian government reportedly said there was little it could do to trace Rashid. “Our capacity to assist is limited” because Canada does not have a formal legal-assistance treaty with the Palestinian Authority, The Globe and Mail quoted Canadian Foreign Affairs Department spokeswoman Amanda Reid as saying.

does he have a 'safe house' near Ottawa I wonder ?