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Palestinian minister denies Arafat kept secret accounts
 | And he was bumped off by a Zionist death ray. And he was very tall, with a full head of hair. And he looked like Clint Eastwood, only when he was young... |
Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayad categorically denied Thursday reports that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hid hundreds of millions of dollars away in secret bank accounts.
"Everything that has been said on that subject has been false," Fayad said at in news conference in Doha, where he is visiting with PLO leader Mahmud Abbas and Plastinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei. The International Monetary Fund claimed in a report last year that 900 million dollars (675 million euros) had been diverted during 1995 to 2000 from the Palestinian Authority's budget to a special bank account controlled by Arafat.
| Guess they found the account numbers... |
Posted by: Fred 2004-12-18 |
