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| Abbas appoints former finance minister as new Palestinian PM |
| 2007-06-16 |
| (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday chose Salam Fayyad, a political independent who was former finance minister of the Hamas-led unity government, as new prime minister, replacing Ismail Haneya of Hamas, the pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV reported. Fayyad was asked to set up an interim Palestinian government, one day after Abbas dissolved the unity government between Hamas and Fatah, which took office on March 17. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 All cat and no hattle. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-06-16 11:16 |
| #6 The BBC have a backgrounder piece on Mr. Fayyad: Born in 1952 in West Bank PhD in economics from the University of Texas Worked at the World Bank 1987-1995 IMF representative to Palestine until 2001 P.A. finance minister 2002-2005 |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-16 08:06 |
| #5 Those P&Ls were deeply resented by all involved. Never before had they been required to submit even invented documentation, and Mr. Fayyad demanded the real thing! And then he pointed out, pubically, the stealing, the graft, overspending, underpaying... It was quite, quite humiliating, and I'm somewhat surprised no knives or bullets found their way between the ribs of his back in the interim. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-16 06:31 |
| #4 Fayyad -- when he took (accepted, forced) that financial position, memory brings back a lengthy article about him, from deep in the heart of Texas; that Austin paper known as the Austin American Statesman. I read it carefully. Now, I'm wondering about some of my memory cells and what I remember about that article. He's US educated, from the article it seemed he knew what he was getting into. Yet, accepted it. That ran up a flag to kinda keep watch for him. The article clearly told a story of a man, living away from his country, gathering all he could from his adopted country, and now seemed the time to return to "his" country. To do what he could do to help. Talk about the red flags. I really wanted him to be all that he could be, all that he hoped he could bring to his "country." Taking all that he had learned to a country that badly needed some leadership. He seemed to have it and seemed to understand the situation, wanting to help. Yet --- there was that inner urge, "Trust, but verify." He was the first to bring to the front, the money situation of the PA from a financial basic, publishing P&L's of the PA. Then, the elections. He disappeared from the news media. And now, appears as prime minister. I might have to go search the Statesman, and even pay for that article. Fayyad is an interesting story. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2007-06-16 01:16 |
| #3 Can't we sell the paleos a suitably big oven, and they can all just stick their heads in? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-06-16 00:35 |
| #2 Poor old Fayyad's about the only Paleostinian around with a reputation that wouldn't get him 15-20 in a civilized country. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-16 00:24 |
| #1 X Finance Minister, soon to be X PM, might make it to Switzerland...and maybe not. I'll take not. |
| Posted by: Phineter Thraviger 2007-06-16 00:11 |