April 28, 2006

Fairy Tale Time

From the fairy-tale section at Haaretz:
Last update - 11:33 26/04/2006
$450,000 said stolen from PA foreign minister during visit to Kuwait
By Haaretz Service

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar has had $450,000 stolen from his hotel room during his current visit to Kuwait, the Itim news agency quoted the Kuwaiti media as saying Wednesday.

According to the report, al-Zahar had asked the Kuwaiti authorities to keep the theft under wraps, but the incident was confirmed by a security official at the hotel.

The foreign minister, a senior member of Hamas, is on a tour of Arab and Muslim countries to drum up funds after Israel suspended the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority and Western donors cut off aid to the Hamas-led government.

The European Union and the United States have cut off direct aid to the Palestinian Authority over Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by previously signed peace agreements.

Itim also reported that an official at the Palestinian Finance Ministry has revealed that, despite its empty coffers, the PA has funded the trip for al-Zahar and his entourage.
Yes! The guy is so trusting, he left $450,000 in small change between toothbrush and the box for his false teeth in the bathroom because everybody knows how trustworthy the Kuwaiti chambermaids are.

As Spirit of Entebbe pointed out so rightly: The money probably was the last thing that could have prevented the dreaded imminent famine in the PA territories and now the Mossad stole it, just as they bombed Sinai recently!

(Thanks to Spirit of Entebbe -- "It was a daring raid, even by Israeli standards.")

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