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Documents show link between bomb makers, Palestinian Authority
"I call it a terror invoice, of how much terrorism costs,"
The IDF said Tuesday it found a letter in Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's compound, written by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades to Arafat's chief financial officer, requesting the money needed to make up to nine bombs a week.
The document details costs incurred by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Arafat's Fatah movement, and was found in the office of Fuad Shubaki, chief financial officer for the PA, said intelligence officer Col. Miri Eisin.
"I call it a terror invoice, of how much terrorism costs," she told a news conference.
The letter was among the documents seized after tanks and troops entered Arafat's compound last Friday, following a wave of suicide bomb attacks.
Asked about the documents, senior PA official Saeb Erekat said he had not seen them. But he said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "has asked everyone to help with his public relations campaign and the Israelis are very busy fabricating things."
Israel said the documents were legitimate and important.
"What we have here for the first time is a document which connects directly those responsible for terrorist activity and their requesting the money from an official person within the Palestinian Authority, and not just any person, but Shubaki," said Eisin.
At Israel's demand, the PA arrested Shobaki earlier this year for his alleged involvement in the Karine A arms shipment that was seized in the Red Sea.
Israel says Shubaki helped organize the shipment, which was from Iran and headed to the Gaza Strip.
Israel said Shubaki is currently in Arafat's besieged compound.
In the document dated September 17, 2001, the Aksa Brigades state that their largest expense has been electrical components and chemical supplies for the production of charges and bombs, and that each explosive cost at least NIS 700.
"We need about five to nine bombs a week for our cells in various areas" the document says.
The letter also asks for NIS 82,000 to be immediately transferred to purchase ammunition for automatic rifles. "We require this ammunition on a daily basis," it said.
It also lists the costs of memorial services for Aksa Brigades members who are killed, as well as the printing of posters, invitations and tents for mourners.
"We hold Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the violence the people of Israel are facing and this invoice of terror is further proof of the charge that the government of Israel has made against Yasser Arafat," said Dore Gold, an adviser to Sharon. He also said a box of counterfeit money was found in the compound.
The document details costs incurred by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Arafat's Fatah movement, and was found in the office of Fuad Shubaki, chief financial officer for the PA, said intelligence officer Col. Miri Eisin.
"I call it a terror invoice, of how much terrorism costs," she told a news conference.
The letter was among the documents seized after tanks and troops entered Arafat's compound last Friday, following a wave of suicide bomb attacks.
Asked about the documents, senior PA official Saeb Erekat said he had not seen them. But he said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "has asked everyone to help with his public relations campaign and the Israelis are very busy fabricating things."
Israel said the documents were legitimate and important.
"What we have here for the first time is a document which connects directly those responsible for terrorist activity and their requesting the money from an official person within the Palestinian Authority, and not just any person, but Shubaki," said Eisin.
At Israel's demand, the PA arrested Shobaki earlier this year for his alleged involvement in the Karine A arms shipment that was seized in the Red Sea.
Israel says Shubaki helped organize the shipment, which was from Iran and headed to the Gaza Strip.
Israel said Shubaki is currently in Arafat's besieged compound.
In the document dated September 17, 2001, the Aksa Brigades state that their largest expense has been electrical components and chemical supplies for the production of charges and bombs, and that each explosive cost at least NIS 700.
"We need about five to nine bombs a week for our cells in various areas" the document says.
The letter also asks for NIS 82,000 to be immediately transferred to purchase ammunition for automatic rifles. "We require this ammunition on a daily basis," it said.
It also lists the costs of memorial services for Aksa Brigades members who are killed, as well as the printing of posters, invitations and tents for mourners.
"We hold Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the violence the people of Israel are facing and this invoice of terror is further proof of the charge that the government of Israel has made against Yasser Arafat," said Dore Gold, an adviser to Sharon. He also said a box of counterfeit money was found in the compound.
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Smoking gun, I think not -- although it is reminding me of that last Osama bin Laden tape in which he had gained a pound or two.
The UN investigated the incident and the evidence was such that every country in the UN (except one) voted to punish Israel for that terrible terrorism.
During the past 18 months 1,400 Palestinians and 425 Israelis have been killed by terrorism. Most of those killed on both sides have been civilians.
Sharon and other right-wing Jews will not be happy until all Palestinian lands have been stolen by bulldozing a dozen homes at a time. Massive, daily violations of the civilized Geneva Convention rules bySharon government is shameful.
It is deplorable to me as a taxpayers that $4.000.000.000 a year in our taxes is funding the current massacre of Palestinians.
Unfortunately, many Israelis who deplores all inhumane acts by the IDF, such as the targeting of ambulances, nurses and hospital, and the denial of aid to the wounded, will be tainted by this warmongering insanity.