Arafat funding terror with EU aid

[drdon326]

http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=2827

The German daily Die Welt reports that the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has concluded that tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid, donated by the EU to the PA has been utilized for terrorist operations against Israel.

The findings, which have deliberately been covered up, confirm Israeli allegations that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has diverted millions of dollars in EU funding to the Fatah Tanzim and Hamas terrorist organizations.

The OLAF findings are based upon documents recovered from the PA headquarters by Israeli military forces during the course of Operation Defensive Shield. OLAF agents recently visited Jerusalem to be briefed by Israeli security officials and to ascertain the authenticity of the documents.

The OLAF investigators have accepted that the captured documents are genuine and evidence of Arafat's wide-spread diversion of the EU's humanitarian aid to Palestinian terrorist operations that targeted Israeli civilians.

The Israeli documents had been presented to the EU's Commissioner for External Affairs Chris Patten last year. Patten, however, refused to recognize their authenticity and denied they established that Arafat was using EU funds for terror attacks. Under increasing pressure from European parliament members, Patten was forced to order an OLAF investigation into the Israeli allegations.

The documents include letters signed by Arafat ordering payments to eleven terrorist leaders for what he termed guerilla operations. In addition, there are receipts for the payments of the mortgages of the families of Hamas suicide bombers, as well as a cash awards of several thousand dollars to the family members. Other documents detail how European funds were used by the PA's Preventative Security Forces to stage "spontaneous" demonstrations in support of imprisoned Fatah Tanzim Marwan Barghouti, who was placed on trial in Israel for masterminding terror attacks that killed 26 Israelis.

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murderous lying weasel.

[mmm]

1. think of what you could do with tens of millions of dollars

were this true (and it is not): Palestinians would have
real weapons and know how to use them; planes would be
falling from the sky; the unleashing of horrible chemical/bio
agents would be a daily event; remote controlled bombs would be
popping up like roses in the midnight air... things like that.
Just ain't so.

[drdon326]

2. lol

And you believe the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) is
lying,huh?

and you know this how??

[GabysPoppy]

3. Forget about getting any proof

[Paschall]

5. You have a press release from OLAF on this subject?

Because all we've got here is a story in English based on a story on German that contains nothing but hearsay about OLAF's findings.

[drdon326]

7. Still waiting for proof....

that the OLAF is lying.

Heres a idea..:think:

maybe ITS THE TRUTH !

[Paschall]

4. Die Welt? Sheesh!

All EU funds provided to the Palestinian Authority are paid into a single treasury account monitored by the IMF as well as the EU. This same account is also used by Israel for the payment of tax revenus to the Palestinian Authority.

I suppose that means Israel is also "funding" terrorist activities. :shrug:

Patten has had to respond to similarly ridiculous charges in the past, and has always done so to the satisfaction of the IMF and the European Parliament. Perhaps not coincidentally, these charges frequently seem to spring from the same sensationalist sources, Die Welt being one.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/mepp/eufundspa.htm

[drdon326]

6. Maybe.....

this was finally blow the lid off this lying murderous weasel.