PA Issues Arrest Warrant for Anti-Corruption Whistleblower
-Khaled Abu Toameh
The Palestinian Authority issued a warrant for the arrest of former intelligence official Fahmi Shabaneh for "collaboration" with Israel.
Shabaneh, who was in charge of the anti-corruption unit in the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, was forced to quit his job after revealing dozens of cases of financial, administrative and sexual corruption among PA leader Mahmoud Abbas' inner circle.
Shabaneh presented the Jerusalem Post with hundreds of documents implicating many of Abbas' close aides in embezzlement, land theft and fraud.
He also showed video footage of Rafik Husseini, the director of Abbas' bureau, in the bedroom of a Christian woman from Jerusalem who had sought work with the PA.
Shabaneh said that he decided to talk to the Post after Palestinian, Arab and foreign media organizations refused to interview him out of fear of being "punished" by the PA.
(Jerusalem Post)
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-Khaled Abu Toameh
The Palestinian Authority issued a warrant for the arrest of former intelligence official Fahmi Shabaneh for "collaboration" with Israel.
Shabaneh, who was in charge of the anti-corruption unit in the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, was forced to quit his job after revealing dozens of cases of financial, administrative and sexual corruption among PA leader Mahmoud Abbas' inner circle.
Shabaneh presented the Jerusalem Post with hundreds of documents implicating many of Abbas' close aides in embezzlement, land theft and fraud.
He also showed video footage of Rafik Husseini, the director of Abbas' bureau, in the bedroom of a Christian woman from Jerusalem who had sought work with the PA.
Shabaneh said that he decided to talk to the Post after Palestinian, Arab and foreign media organizations refused to interview him out of fear of being "punished" by the PA.
(Jerusalem Post)
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Rafiq Husseini says he's a victim of Israeli conspiracy
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has suspended one of his top aides under investigation for allegations of being involved in a sex scandal.
Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, said that a three-member committee will check out the conduct of Rafiq Husseini, accused of seeking to trade influence for sex.
Footage of Husseini undressing, getting into bed and calling a woman to join him were broadcast on Israeli TV last week, sending shock waves through conservative Palestinian society.
[T]he former Palestinian intelligence officer who secretly took the footage in collusion with the unidentified woman said that he does not trust the commission of inquiry because one if its members was implicated in a corruption scandal.
[Associated Press]
"Fatahgate" -Khaled Abu Toameh
By telling Palestinians that the current sex scandal in the PA is an Israeli "conspiracy" to weaken Mahmoud Abbas and force him to make political and territorial concessions, the Palestinian leaders are generating still more hatred among Palestinians against the Jewish state.
Rafik Husseini, was caught with his pants down in the bedroom of an Arab woman and, of course, it's the Jews' fault.
The Palestinian Authority's claim that the Israelis are behind the latest sex scandal in Ramallah should be seen in the context of the campaign of incitement that began under Yasser Arafat against Israel and Jews, and what dictators use to "change the subject" at home.
(Hudson Institute New York)
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