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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ben Wa who wrote (7684)	11/6/2004 5:49:31 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Baloney. Wake up from your stupor. People constantly declare war on each other. Too much testosterone, too little sleep and an insatiable greed for resources and domination over everything they see. Wake up. The armageddon fundamentalists want to do exactly the same thing: kill or convert and that includes Jews. You do understand that don't you? The idea is that Armageddon is in Israel and without Israel's existence the Rapture doesn't come about. Thus the constant flow of fring-evangelical dollars for tourism in Israel. The bizarre thing, of course, is that they expect Jews to convert or be destroyed by God in a sea of blood, 'as high as a horse's bridle' or ugly words to that effect. Nice huh? This is a HUMAN problem. Stop labeling it and see it for what it is: exactly the same problem regardless of country, ethnicity or religion. We are now pounding the smithereens out of Fallujah. A city of some 250,000 men, women, children and unborn babies now 75% in refugee encampments with some 60,000 still in the city. The estimate is 1-2K resistance fighters of unknown origin but likely 90% Iraqi. These are the Sunnis whom Bremmer told flat out: you have no life in Iraq, you lose your job, your position and the pensions you worked for...learn to love it you evil Baathists you. yep, that worked. Bush, the monster, is liberating Iraqis from life. That's kind of him isn't it?

To: Ben Wa who wrote (7684)	11/7/2004 1:20:45 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

As confusion over Mr Arafat's condition grew, a Palestinian legislator last night called for his financial adviser, Mohammed Rashid, who controls a multi-billion dollar network of Palestine Liberation Organisation accounts, to be investigated. Over the past 40 years, Mr Arafat's PLO has built up a global empire of investments, worth an estimated $4.2 billion to $6.5 billion. (£2.3-£3.5 billion). Meanwhile the Palestinian Authority, which administers the territories, is virtually bankrupt. Abdul Jawwad Saleh, a leading independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, wants Mr Rashid to be questioned at the organisation's Ramallah headquarters. His demand reflects concern that very few people will know the whereabouts of more than £2 billion of PLO funds if Mr Arafat dies. Mr Rashid left Ramallah some months ago, and is currently in Paris. Hassan Khreishe, another legislative council member, said Mr Rashid would be held to account. "We will follow him, don't worry," he said. Mr Saleh is also calling for Mr Arafat's wife, Suha, who is said to be a business partner of Mr Rashid, to be questioned. "Mr Arafat's situation has presented a chance for us to question Mohammed Rashid," he said. "He knows better than anyone else the whereabouts of all the money, all the secret accounts. This is the people's money." A confidential report last month by the Palestinian finance ministry shows that the Palestinian Authority is running a deficit of about £73 million a month. Last year, the International Monetary Fund said Mr Arafat had diverted $1 billion or more of Palestinian Authority funds from 1995 to 2000. A Palestinian lawyer who has investigated PLO corruption, and who wished to remain anonymous, said he knew of three or four Arafat loyalists who held secret bank accounts. "He paid a lot of this money to buy loyalty, squandering millions of dollars," he said. "The corruption was huge. The PLO had monopolies on cement, petrol, construction, taxes and cigarettes. It has investments everywhere. Nobody knows what has happened to all these assets." Conflicting reports about Mr Arafat's condition have fuelled rumours that he was poisoned by Israeli agents. Dr Hisham Ahmed, a member of Mr Arafat's Fatah faction, said a bodyguard told him that the Palestinian leader had whispered to him: "This time they got me." telegraph.co.uk