Posted on 02/12/2010 3:00:59 PM PST by Lorianne
The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday accused former intelligence official Fahmi Shabaneh of “collaboration” with Israel and issued a warrant for his arrest.
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 President Mahmoud Abbas’s inner circle.
In an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post two weeks ago, Shabaneh, 49, who lives in Jerusalem, accused Abbas of failing to act against senior PA and Fatah officials allegedly involved in the theft of public funds and in sex scandals.
Shabaneh showed the Post video footage of Rafik Husseini, the director of Abbas’s bureau, lying naked in the bedroom of a Christian woman from Jerusalem who had sought work with the PA.
Shabaneh also presented the Post with hundreds of documents he had collected during his work implicating many of Abbas’s close aides in embezzlement, land theft and fraud.
Shabaneh’s revelations to the Post were the first of their kind by a senior Palestinian official who was in charge of investigating corruption in the PA.
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And to think he could have taken the easy way out and done nothing at all....
Forget warrant, this guy needs an award....
How convenient. Guy exposes corruption and the people he exposes charge him with “collaboration with Israel.” I think in the PA that “crime” is punishable by death. Dead men tell no tales...
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The money they're stealing, it's aid, much of it from the USA.
And Israel was trying to destabilize Fatah...why? Some better bunch of sociopathic career killers? We want Hamas instead? Just for fun? The pics of Husseini did appear in Maariv, btw. Hardly playgirl centerfold material, he was.
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