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Documents show Arafat paid for disco bombing
Sent thank-you note to family of terrorist who killed 21, injured 120Yasser Arafat paid $2,000 to the family of a Palestinian suicide bomber who attacked the beach front Dolphinarium dance club in Tel Aviv in 2001 and then sent the terrorist's father a letter in which he praised his son's murderous act, according to documents captured in a recent Israeli operation that were released yesterday. The attack on the Dolphinarium was one of the most brutal massacres of the Palestinian intifadah, killing 21 people, mostly teens, on a Friday night in June 2001. More than 120 people were injured in the powerful blast carried out by Hamas terrorist Hassan Khutari. It was disclosed in documents published yesterday by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism unit at the Center for Special Studies that the Palestinian Authority transferred $2,000 to Khutari's father, who resides in Jordan. The documents, seized from the Institute for Caring for Victims' Families a division of the Palestinian Welfare Ministry were captured during Israel's Operation Defensive Shield in March 2002. Israel National News reported the funds were transferred to the family through a branch of the Arab Bank, in El-Bireh, near Ramallah. The bank is known to be the preferred channel of the PA and terrorist groups for funneling money to the families of imprisoned and dead terrorists and to terrorist operatives themselves. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-15 |
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