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Forbes audits Yasser Arafat: Money keeps Arafat in power. Start checking up on that money, and you put him in serious trouble...

With a tight grip on much of the $5.5 billion in international aid that has flowed into the PA since 1994, he appears to have overseen virtually all disbursements, from $600 payments to alleged terrorists and $1,500 in "tuition" for security officers, to $10 million, reportedly paid by a company controlled by friends of Arafat, for a 50-ton shipment of weapons from Iran.

Forbes accompanies this article with a handy-dandy spreadsheet comparing the wealth and assets of royalty and despots.

posted by William @ 4/15/2003 08:30:38 AM