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| Report: EU panel finds Arafat did not fund terror |
| 2004-02-19 |
| JPost - Reg Req’d - so I’ll post the whole stinking pack of EU whitewash A week after the German paper Die Welt reported suspicion is growing that money from PA Chairman Yasser Arafat’s office was transferred to terror organizations, the French daily Liberation reported Wednesday that a report being prepared by the EU’s anti-fraud unit (OLAF) will show no financial ties between Arafat and terror. "We are papering over ze facts and rewriting history. Arafat is ze George Washington of the Paleo people" The paper reported that according to its sources the report will show that Arafat did not use the financial assistance from the EU to "help in any way to fund terror organizations like the Al Aqsa Brigades." The OLAF report on whether hundreds of millions of euros to the PA was misused, is slated to be released in March. Following the Die Welt report, which also indicated OLAF investigators had authenticated documents Israel provided the EU linking Arafat to terror groups, OLAF released a statement saying it has "not finalized its investigation. Therefore, any conclusions attributed to OLAF are premature and are not confirmed by evidence." "we need to re-evaluate the facts based on the consequences of their disclosure" Ilka Schroeder, a German European Parliament member affiliated with the Green Party who was among those who pushed for an investigation of how EU money to the PA was being spent, sent an open letter to the three presidents of a "Working Group" in the European Parliament dealing with the issue on Thursday discounting the conclusions as reported in Liberation. "It is known that the al-Aksa brigades are closely linked with the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Arafat and that they have committed several suicide bombings against Israelis," she wrote. "It is known that not only school books, but also radio and TV stations, prayers paid by the state and official newspapers spread hate against Israel and anti-Semitic prejudice. If OLAF shouldn’t know this or should not be capable to make the logical conclusions from these facts, then OLAF is simply the wrong institution to investigate this course of events," she concluded. Nice way of calling them biased liars Schroeder called on OLAF to immediately release a first "confidential" paper it reportedly wrote on the issue, and suggested "that the European Parliament apologize publicly and admits the fatal role of the European Union in the war against Israel. (This will make it easier for victims and the surviving dependants to sue the European Union.)" Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center, filed a NIS 100 million suit in Tel Aviv District Court in May 2002 against the EU on behalf of an Israeli family decimated by a terror attack in August 2001. The law suit alleges that the EU recklessly provided the PA with massive sums of financial aid, while knowing that the money was being diverted from its intended civilian purposes to Palestinian terrorist groups. So the EU report self-exonerates them? hmmmmmmm |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 What did you expect from the EU? A Mea Culpa? Get real. |
| Posted by: Daniel King 2004-2-21 1:42:10 PM |
| #5 Independent audit report? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks, Alaska Paul - I needed a good laugh. What, were you serious? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-2-19 11:03:28 PM |
| #4 Stunning, simply stunning. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-19 10:09:32 PM |
| #3 I would assume that the EU would request some kind of independent audit report periodically for the Euros that they dump in a pile in front of the PA. Or is that some kind of presumptious assumption on my part? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-2-19 8:33:58 PM |
| #2 Nah, he didn't. Suha needed a couple of new Maseratis and it ate up the budget. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-19 8:05:15 PM |
| #1 Money being fungible, this whole "investigation" is idiotic. Giving money to a sponsor of terrorism is giving money to a sponsor of terrorism. Period. |
| Posted by: wuzzalib 2004-2-19 7:57:23 PM |