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| Middle East |
| Yasser drops new PA ministers' names |
| 2002-06-09 |
| Two east Jerusalem residents will be appointed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's new cabinet. Gassan Al Khtaib from the Palestinian People's Party and Sheikh Mohammed Hosan, presently the Temple Mount Mosque Imam, will be in charge of religious affairs. These are the guys who'll issue the fatwahs on whether it's okay to blow yourself up... Salem Fayed and Dr. Samir Ghosheh will also be appointed, reports indicated. Fayed will be responsible for the Finance Ministry. Ghosheh, is a member of the PLO executive committee and affiliated with the Islamist movement. He will serve as a Cabinet minister, though his position is still unknown, according to reports. In 1998, Ghosheh helped establish computer training centers for young Palestinians in the territories. The centers are being used to train PA employees in the industry. The goal of his initiative was to develop the PA private sector and to increase the number of jobs for young Palestinians. And a damned fine job he did of it. The Paleostinians are dominating the IT market world-wide now, aren't they? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |