Palestinian officials recently stole $52 million in U.S. aid, America prepares to send another $86 million.

Dumping More Money into a Sewer

By DiscoverTheNetworks.org

As the United States prepares to send approximately $86 million in financial aid to bolster Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah militias in the West Bank against possible threats from Hamas, it has been learned that in recent years two PA officials who were Fatah members stole tens of millions of U.S. dollars that also had been earmarked to help Fatah ward off Hamas. One of those officials, Mahmoud Dahlan, smuggled $27 million and invested much of it in construction projects in Dubai. His associate Rashid Abu Shabak, former chief of the Palestinian Security Services, smuggled another $25 million. Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad's office reports that of some $60 million in U.S. aid that was deposited in a bank account for Fatah's exclusive benefit, only $7 million was not stolen. Dahlan and Shabak both fled the Gaza Strip prior to Hamas' takeover of the region and all its U.S.-backed Fatah security compounds in June.
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