Thread: Americans paying rent for terrorists?

Americans paying rent for terrorists?
Militants complain they don't have enough money to cover their bills
Posted: March 23, 2008
4:36 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – Just days after it was announced the U.S. would transfer $150 million directly to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' government, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, the declared military wing of Abbas' Fatah party, were told they would receive cash grants, WND has learned.

According to Palestinian militant sources familiar with the issue, earlier this month, 20 members of the Brigades leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah complained to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad they did not have enough money to pay their bills, including, for many of them, rent for their apartments.

Last week, according to the informed sources, Fayyad told the complaining Brigades leaders he would provide them with a one-time grant of $3,000 each, or $60,000 to the Ramallah-based Brigades leadership.

The sources said after Brigades leaders in other West Bank cities, including Hebron and Nablus, heard of the grants, they also demanded pay increases.

"Some of the other fighters accused Fayyad of favoring the Brigades leaders in Ramallah since that's where Fayyad lives," said a militant source. "So he gave grants also to other cells."

The sources estimate at least $350,000 in grants to Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leaders were pledged by Fayyad since last week. Some of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leaders serve in Fatah security forces while others only work in the Brigades.

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, deadly shootings and rocket attacks. It is listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization even though U.S. policy considers the Fatah party to be "moderate."

Many members of the Brigades openly serve in Fatah's official security forces.

Fayyad's purported grants to the Brigades come after the U.S. announced last week it will transfer $150 million directly to accounts controlled by Fayyad, marking the first time in eight months America has transferred money directly to the PA instead of to nongovernmental agencies.

President Bush pushed Congress to remove a hold on a $150 million aid package to be transferred to the PA. Bush said the PA was in economic trouble and needed the money at a time it is "threatened" by extremists and negotiating with Israel.

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee earlier halted the aid fearing it would be used to fund terrorism.

Fayyad claimed to reporters last week the U.S. money, due to be transferred tomorrow, would go directly to the Palestinian national treasury to be used for running what he termed a cash-strapped government.

"We see this [U.S. aid] as significant, especially because it underscores the confidence with which our financial system is viewed internationally," Fayyad said at a signing ceremony last week at the U.S. consul general in Jerusalem.

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When these Dumb A$$'s tell me they need to raise my taxes ... I'm just going to look at them like they are out of there F'n mind ......

Corruption leeds this land..... I don't want to hear any pathetic excuse why... it's doesn't matter... there is not a damn thing you can say, spending the money from my left pocket while reaching around to grab my wallet with the right hand

I don't care what Bush says, the Democratic leadership or the GO F'n P Our government is one corrupt pile of dog goo

I could give a rat's A$$ about the Senate or our corrupt Congress ... get your fat little greedy hands out of my pocket

it truly is time for the Tea Party... this country has lost any and all moral authority

The only thing that is going to take this funk away ... I can only think of Treason and Sedition charges for a bunch of little pathetic men with too much power