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

To: lorne who wrote (7992)	11/17/2004 10:24:29 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

$15 million murder money - Former West Bank representative of Saddam handed eight-year sentence As local leader of pro-Iraqi “Arab Liberation Front”, Rakad Salameh received $15 million from Baghdad to financially support families of suicide bombers. (those 15 million are like $150 million in the US on a US GDP equivalent $150 billion) Eitan Rabin A former representative of Saddam Hussein on the West Bank has been sentenced to eight years in prison and fined NIS 5 million. Rakad Salameh, a resident of Ramallah, was convicted of felonies that included arms dealing and bringing in funds from enemy states into Israel. According to the indictment, when Salameh served as the leader of the pro-Iraqi “Arab Liberation Front” in the territories, he received over $15 million from Iraq, which had been given to families of suicide bombers and terrorists engaged in attacks against Israel. Salameh was detained by an elite IDF unit in an office building in central Ramallah two years ago. According to defense officials, he was the representative of the former Iraqi dictator on the West Bank and financially supported many families of suicide bombers.