"Terror
Documented"
"The Palestinians expected in all seriousness that the Europeans would follow Saddam Hussein's lead and pay blood money. The assembled European diplomats did not greet this demand with alarm. They are not horrified, only embarrassed. They let the wish-list disappear into the vault. They don't want to know anything about it. They would rather be defrauded discreetly." (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Bruno Schirra)
News and commentary on evidence gained during Operation Defensive Shield,
linking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to terrorism.
August 2002
"With Unyielding Faith" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Shark Blog/Die Zeit, 2002/08/15)June 2002
"Accounting and accountability: defining donor requirements for Palestinian reform" (Matthew Levitt, Policy Watch, 2002/07/18)June 2002
"How European Union Aid Goes for War" (Jacky Hogi, Maariv/IMRA, 2002/06/23)
"Moratinos denies PA misused EU funds for terrorism" (Herb Keinon, 2002/06/20)
"Arafat Bombs, Europe Pays" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Bruno Schirra, Shark Blog/Die Zeit, 2002/06/12)
May 2002
"Arafat aided group that besieged church" (Sayed Anwar, The Washington Times, 2002/05/23)
"The Palestinian Authority Financed "Fatah" Branch Activities from its Official Budget" (IDF, 2002/05/12 [?])
"Documents captured by the IDF" (IDF, 2002/05/10 [?])
"The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption and Crime" (Dani Naveh et al., M.F.A, 2002/05/08 [?])
"Government's 'Arafat File' shows how EU money was used for terror" (Etgar Lefkovits, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/05/06)
"Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism" (Judith Miller, The New York Times, 2002/05/05)
"Barghouti tells investigators: Arafat approved terrorist funding" (Margot Dudkevitch, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/05/03)
"Barghouti admits involvement in planning terror attacks" (Amos Harel, Haaretz, 2002/05/02)
April 2002
"Arafat's Money Man a Focus in Tug of War" (Tracy Wilkinson and Robin Wright, The Los Angeles Times, 2002/04/30)
"Israel captures top official of Hamas military operations" (CNN.com, 2002/04/18)
"Israelis Capture Arafat Deputy in the West Bank" (James Bennet, The New York Times, 2002/04/16)
"Arafat's letter of incitement" (Bret Stephens and Lamia Lahoud, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/04/15)
"Tenet's Palestinian" (William Safire, The New York Times, 2002/04/15)
"Captured Documents from Arafat's Compound: Inciting Israeli Arabs to join the Intifada, Arafat unwilling to recognize Israel's right to exist" (IMRA, 2002/04/14)
"PA intelligence chief implicated in terrorism" (Margot Dudkevitch, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/04/12)
"Terror Documented" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2002/04/10)
"Israel Says Arafat Signed Pay Slip to 'Terrorists'" (Douglas Frantz, The New York Times, 2002/04/04)
"Yasser Arafat's "Mukata" compound in Ramallah: A center for controlling and supporting terrorism" (IMRA, 2002/04/02)
March 2002
"Overview of Operation 'Homat Magen'" (Arutz Sheva, 2002/03/31)
"With Unyielding Faith" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Shark Blog/Die Zeit, 2002/08/15)
Stefan Sharkansky's translation of an article from Die Zeit on the allegations that Middle Eastern terrorism is subsidized by EU aid money: "EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten disputes all of the allegations in the strongest terms. Standing before the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on June 19 he said that the EU Commission had "painstakingly examined" all of the Israeli government's documents. They found "no proof, I repeat, no proof that European aid funds were used for anything other than their intended purpose". ... This view of Arafat is borne of an unyielding faith in his goodness. The EU cries "no proof!" yet generously disregards the plethora of direct and circumstancial evidence. The EU is acting like the wife who assiduously overlooks the stranger's lipstick on her husband's collar and doesn't believe that she's been betrayed until there's a private detective with an incriminating videotape standing at the door." (See also the first article: "Arafat Bombs, Europe Pays" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Bruno Schirra, Shark Blog/Die Zeit, 2002/06/12) and "Unbeugsame Gutgläubigkeit" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Die Zeit, August 2002))"Accounting and accountability: defining donor requirements for Palestinian reform" (Matthew Levitt, Policy Watch, 2002/07/18)
"Evidence that Arafat has continued to approve funding for Palestinian terrorists, including a June payment of $20,000 to the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades just as the group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, persuaded American policymakers of the need to find Palestinian interlocutors other than Arafat. ... Documents Israel seized in Arafat's compound and elsewhere in the West Bank establish that while condemning terrorist attacks (albeit not as acts of terror per se, but rather as harming the national interests of the PA), Arafat personally authorized the financing of groups and individuals engaged in terror attacks against Israeli citizens. ... No specific Euro can be traced to the purchase of a specific bullet. For that reason, Chris Patton's insistence that "the EU [has] not seen any hard evidence that the EU funds have been misused to finance terrorism or for any other purpose" misses the real question: has EU funding facilitated Palestinian terrorism? ... PA funding of terrorism is well documented, both from the seized documents and from the millions spent on arms purchases, such as those discovered on the Karine-A seized by Israel in January 2002. Despite renewed denials from the EU's Office of External Affairs about the misuse of EU funds, the problem remains that there is no complete, publicly available accounting of how the PA spends its money - including the cash it gets from the EU. Before the International Task Force on Palestinian Reform endorses any release of funds to the PA, the issue of public accounting for all PA spending needs to be addressed.""How European Union Aid Goes for War" (Jacky Hogi, Maariv/IMRA, 2002/06/23)
"Newly translated documents captured during Operation Defensive Shield describe how the PA diverts foreign aid money for terrorism and corruption. Each month the PA receives millions of dollars in foreign aid. The EU provides $9 million and the Arab states $45 million, according to a decision by the Arab League of October 2000. A part of these funds goes directly to the armed militias of Fatah. The salaries of all PA workers - from clerks to police and security forces - are listed in dollars but paid in shekels. The official exchange rate is 16% lower than the going market rate. The PA pockets the difference, to use however it wishes, without the donor states realizing that their funds are being diverted for other purposes. The PA pays $40 million in salaries each month - half goes to the security forces. The exchange rate difference brings in an estimated $6.4 million every month, which is believed to go directly to the Al-Aqsa Brigades and the local, Fatah-run, weapons and ammunition industries.""Moratinos denies PA misused EU funds for terrorism" (Herb Keinon, 2002/06/20)
"European Union Middle East envoy Miguel Moratinos said yesterday EU funds are not being misused by the Palestinian Authority and channeled to fund terrorism, a claim immediately refuted by Minister-without-Portfolio Dan Naveh. Naveh, in his dossier on PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's involvement in terrorism, last month wrote that "Arafat and his men used the funds donated to them by other countries, including the European Union, to finance terrorist activity." Moratinos, at a press briefing in Tel Aviv, said the EU took the charges seriously and conducted an investigation. "We came to the conclusion that the money was used properly, and not for terrorism," he said. ... Naveh responded to the denials saying, "Unfortunately, I view this European position gravely. It is very sad that the European Union does not recognize the facts that were presented to it." ... EU lawmakers meeting in Brussels agreed yesterday to unblock 18.7 million euros in aid to the Palestinians that was held up over charges that some money was going to fund terrorism, but demanded "full transparency" in how it is spent. ... Regarding the settlements, Moratinos called them a "cancer" that will make it impossible to reach a solution unless they are 'operated on.'""Arafat Bombs, Europe Pays" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Bruno Schirra, Shark Blog/Die Zeit, 2002/06/12)
Stefan Sharkansky's translation of a must-read article from Die Zeit (2002/06/07): "Die Zeit researched in Berlin, Brussels, Washington, in Israel and in the Palestinian territories: everywhere it looked into clues and documents that indicated how EU funds that were intended in the name of peace were turned toward war-making and funds intended for the construction of democratic structures were turned to finance a terror network. The results of the investigation are alarming. ... On April 22, 2002 Palestinian Minister Nabil Shaath presented the members of the European Commission at the Mediterranean Conference in Valencia with a demand for aid in the amount of $1.9 Billion dollars. According to consistent reports from several witnesses, Shaath's wish-list contained line items such as $20.6 Million dollars for weapons and $40.6 Million dollars for the support of refugees and "martyr families". The Palestinians expected in all seriousness that the Europeans would follow Saddam Hussein's lead and pay blood money. The assembled European diplomats did not greet this demand with alarm. They are not horrified, only embarrassed. They let the wish-list disappear into the vault. They don't want to know anything about it. They would rather be defrauded discreetly." (See also: "Arafat bombt, Europa zahlt" (Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff and Bruno Schirra, Die Zeit, 2002/06/12))"Arafat aided group that besieged church" (Sayed Anwar, The Washington Times, 2002/05/23)
"Palestinian documents seized by Israel show that Yasser Arafat financially supported Bethlehem's top gunman, who until his death last year was the leader of a clan that controlled the Church of the Nativity during the standoff with Israeli troops. ... A one-page document dated July 9, 2001, contained Mr. Arafat's handwritten confirmation of payment of $300 to Atef Abayat. The payment was authorized by Mr. Arafat at a time when Israel had requested that the Palestinian local leader be arrested on murder charges. Israeli agents killed him by blowing up a stolen car in which he was riding. ... Palestinian officials insist payments from Mr. Arafat's Palestinian Authority were used only for political and social programs. But another document, dated Nov. 7, 2001, indicates Mr. Arafat's approval for paying the families of "brother commander martyrs" killed fighting Israel. Topping the list is Atef Abayat, who had at the same time been publicly lionized as a "great martyr" in a speech by Mr. Arafat.""The Palestinian Authority Financed "Fatah" Branch Activities from its Official Budget" (IDF, 2002/05/12 [?])
"1. Documents captured in Ramallah clearly indicate that the Palestinian Authority funneled money from its official budget, which is financed mainly by Arab and European states, to Fatah and Tanzim branches in the West Bank. In this manner, the PA created an infrastructure of terror activists in dozens of local branches. 2.The money was drawn from the PA's salaries account and transferred via Marwan Barghouti's office to tens of provincial Fatah branches and sub-branches in the West Bank. 3. A section on financing Fatah activities is not stipulated in the PA's official budget, which is supposed to be transparent vis-a-vis the European Union and the IMF .The implication is that there are surpluses in the PA's salaries budget and some of the funds are directed to other purposes.""Large Sums of Money Transferred by Saudi Arabia to the Palestinians are Used for Financing Terror Organizations (particulary the Hamas) and Terrorist Activities (including Suicide Attacks inside Israel)" (IDF, 2002/05/10 [?])
"The captured documents demonstrate that the Saudi support was not only of a humanitarian religious nature, as Saudi spokesmen in the U.S. claim. The documents clearly reveal that Saudi Arabia transferred, inter alia, large sums of money in a systematic and ongoing manner to families of suicide terrorists, to the Hamas Organization (on the U.S. list of terror organizations) and to persons and entities identified with the Hamas.""The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption and Crime" (Dani Naveh et al., M.F.A, 2002/05/08 [?])
The so-called 'Arafat file' is available online: "The main findings of this report are:
1. Yasser Arafat was personally involved in the planning and execution of terror attacks. He encouraged them ideologically, authorized them financially and personally headed the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades organization.
2. The closest aides to Arafat responsible for terrorist activity are head of General Intelligence Tawfik Tirawi and financier Fouad Shubaki, who operated the ongoing logistics of financial aide and support of terrorism actions.
3. The Al Aqsa Brigades organization, headed by Arafat, was put under the direct authority of Marawan Barghouti, who had no compunction in using women and even children to execute terrorist activity, which killed hundreds of Israelis.""Government's 'Arafat File' shows how EU money was used for terror" (Etgar Lefkovits, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/05/06)
"The Palestinian Authority has used tens of millions of dollars it received from donors such as the European Union to finance terrorism, while Saudi Arabia has given a total of $550,000 in the last year to more than 100 families of Palestinian terrorists, according to a government report released yesterday. The 103-page report entitled, "The Involvement of Arafat, PA Senior Officials and Apparatuses in Terrorism against Israel, Corruption, and Crime," which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to give US President George W. Bush in their meeting tomorrow, also labels the Palestinian Authority "a supporting, encouraging, and actively operating body of terrorism" whose chairman, Yasser Arafat, was 'directly involved in the planning and execution of terrorist attacks.'""Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism" (Judith Miller, The New York Times, 2002/05/05)
"As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon heads for Washington today, Israeli officials are presenting documents and other material seized in recent raids of Palestinian installations on the West Bank as evidence of what they call Yasir Arafat's direct role in supporting and sponsoring terrorism. One Israeli official said he recently showed a senior American diplomat in Tel Aviv a videotape that demonstrated techniques for making homemade bombs to blow up buses. It was found at an Islamic elementary school in the West Bank city of Nablus in a file marked "Palestinian cultural heritage," this official said. ... Israel blames Al Aksa for most of the attacks against Israeli civilians carried out since November and says documents support its assertion that the brigades are sponsored and financed by Mr. Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Several documents provided by Israelis support this claim, though their authenticity could not be independently confirmed.Suicide bombings are praised in several documents. In one memo dated Feb. 6, 2002, the head of Palestinian intelligence in the Tulkarm district calls the activities of the squad that carried out the attack in Hadera "qualitative and successful." The official also notes that the squad members 'maintain ongoing coordination and contacts with us.'""Barghouti tells investigators: Arafat approved terrorist funding" (Margot Dudkevitch, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/05/03)
"All those seeking financial assistance had to fill out a detailed form that [Barghouti] added his recommendation to and signed before giving it to Arafat. No matter how small the sum, each request needed Arafat's authorization, and then the money was allocated according to the instructions of Al-Hakam Balawi, secretary of the Fatah central committee. ... Abu Hmeid, one of the founders and senior commanders of the Aksa Martyrs Brigade, also told interrogators that he and those who worked with him received financial assistance and weapons from Marwan Barghouti’s assistant, Ahmed Barghouti. He also admitted that members of Arafat’s Force 17 presidential guard were involved in a number of terrorist attacks and that activists would go to Force 17 storerooms and receive ready-to-use bombs. Abu Hmeid said Marwan Barghouti was updated on all details of the terrorist attacks perpetrated by him and his people and that he was also privy to all details concerning the purchase of weapons used by cell members.""Barghouti admits involvement in planning terror attacks" (Amos Harel, Haaretz, 2002/05/02)
"The head of the Fatah movement in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, told Shin Bet security service interrogators Thursday that he had been involved in planning terror attacks, in which dozens of Israeli civilians were wounded or killed. ... According to Shin Bet sources, Barghouti explained how funds were channeled from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to those carrying out the attacks. The Shin Bet said that by questioning Barghouti and other senior Fatah officials, it has become clear that Arafat authorized the transfer of monies to Fatah activists with the knowledge that it was to be used for terror attacks. Similarly, they said, PA weapons storage facilities were used to provide arms for the activists.""Arafat's Money Man a Focus in Tug of War" (Tracy Wilkinson and Robin Wright, The Los Angeles Times, 2002/04/30)
"Inside Yasser Arafat's wrecked headquarters, the man near the top of Israel's most wanted list is a pudgy, 62-year-old accountant. He is Fuad Shubaki, chief financial officer of the Palestinian Authority. ... "It's like 'The Untouchables,' " one U.S. official said. "How did they go after Capone? They went after the bookkeeper. ... In the Palestinian world, Shubaki is that bookkeeper. That's the role he's playing. But the goal is not Shubaki, [it's] Arafat." ... Israeli intelligence officials believe that Shubaki has controlled millions, if not billions, of dollars over the years - money that was used to equip Palestinian militias, before the founding of the Palestinian Authority, and security services afterward. ... More intriguing, he may have intimate knowledge of Arafat's private and extremely well-stocked bank accounts, intelligence officials say. ... "They want him as the smoking gun to definitely link the head of the PA, and to some extent the whole structure of the PA, to the whole structure of terror," said a second U.S. official. 'Israel wants to marry the two and create a seamless link so that they can eliminate the PA.'""Israel captures top official of Hamas military operations" (CNN.com, 2002/04/18)
"Israeli forces arrested a man Thursday they said was a top official in the military wing of Hamas and responsible for a series of deadly terror attacks against Israeli civilians in recent years, including last month's Passover bombing in Netanya. Both the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian security forces said the captured man, identified as Hossam Atef Ali Badram, was the head of the military wing of Hamas, Izzedine al Qassam. ... Badram is "responsible for all the most difficult attacks carried out against Israel by the Hamas during the past few years," according to a written statement from the IDF. Those attacks, the IDF said, killed more than 100 people.""Israelis Capture Arafat Deputy in the West Bank" (James Bennet, The New York Times, 2002/04/16)
"In the biggest catch of its West Bank offensive, Israel arrested a top leader of Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement in the West Bank today, accusing him of planning and financing terrorist attacks while masquerading as a politician without a military role. ... Once popular with Israeli officials, Mr. Barghouti is largely regarded in Israel now simply as a terrorist. Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, the defense minister, accused Mr. Barghouti of turning Fatah's militia into "the most murderous of the terrorist organizations, committing most of the recent attacks against Israel." ... For Palestinians, Mr. Barghouti, 41, a canny, charismatic man with a compact build and an easy smile, has become a popular leader of a fight for freedom, and even a potential successor to Mr. Arafat.""Arafat's letter of incitement" (Bret Stephens and Lamia Lahoud, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/04/15)
"A letter seized by the IDF from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Ramallah office suggests a concerted effort by the PA to incite Israeli Arabs against Israel. ... However, PA security sources have said in the past there were connections between the Islamic Movement in Israel and Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The PA has also recruited some Israeli Arabs, they added. Palestinians have warned in the past that the conflict may spread into Israel creating a confrontation between Israeli Arabs and Jews if the political process does not resume." (See also: "Captured Documents from Arafat's Compound: Inciting Israeli Arabs to join the Intifada, Arafat unwilling to recognize Israel's right to exist" (IMRA, 2002/04/14))"Tenet's Palestinian" (William Safire, The New York Times, 2002/04/15)
"This year's entrapper of our C.I.A. chief is Jabril Rajoub. This aide to Yasir Arafat has been, and still is, head of the Palestinians' deceptively named "Office of Preventive Security." As such, Rajoub has been in direct touch with Tenet as well as his Israeli counterpart, ostensibly to arrest Arabs identified as planning to kill civilians in Israel and to shut off terrorist purchases and smuggling of arms into the West Bank. ... Evidence has just surfaced from an Israeli search of Palestinian offices indicating that Rajoub's "preventive security" force was not only failing to prevent murder, but was also helping to supply and disguise the murderers. According to a front-page story by Michael R. Gordon of The Times, documents and other intelligence delivered to the U.S. showed what Israeli officials said was evidence that "elements of the Palestinian office of preventive security, which the United States has backed as a way to enhance the authority of moderate Palestinians and head off terrorist attacks, are also linked to suicide bombings." Found in Rajoub's headquarters were mortars and heavy machine guns, as well as skullcaps and other garb to disguise suicide bombers. (See www.idf.il for the Israel military's outline of evidence found.)""Captured Documents from Arafat's Compound: Inciting Israeli Arabs to join the Intifada, Arafat unwilling to recognize Israel's right to exist" (IMRA, 2002/04/14)
"Among the documents captured by the IDF during Operation Defensive Wall is a statement of policy sent to Arab notables in Israel through the "Liaison Committee" with Israeli Arabs, which operates from Arafat's bureau.": "The ties have interlaced, that connect the sons of Jerusalem and the West Bank with those of the Gaza Strip and those of the cities occupied since 1948 [i.e. the Israeli Arab citizens], who have always been and forever will be the natural depth and fortified wall of our Palestinian people and its just cause. The [Palestinian] people has indeed started its Intifada in order to pave, with its pure and stainless blood, the pavements and alleys and squares of the holiest of holy places, the capital of the independent Palestinian state. ... Yes, we will draw up with blood the map of the one homeland ["al watan al wahad"] and the one people ["al shaab al wahad"].""PA intelligence chief implicated in terrorism" (Margot Dudkevitch, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/04/12)
"Information gleaned from terrorists who were arrested and documents confiscated by the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield indicate that Palestinian Authority West Bank General Intelligence chief Tawfik Tirawi assisted in recruiting, arming, and dispatching terrorists to perpetrate attacks in Israel. Lists of names of potential suicide bombers that Israel handed over to Tirawi, demanding they be arrested by the PA, were instead used by Tirawi to warn the terrorists to evade arrest." (See also: "U.S. Is Given Papers That Israelis Assert Tie Arafat to Terror" (Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times, 2002/04/12) and "Seized Orient House documents link Arafat to terrorism" (Etgar Lefkovits, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/04/12): "Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat authorized funding to a Palestinian who was on Israel's most wanted list and to two dozen other activists in his Fatah faction who carried out terrorist attacks against Israel, according to Palestinian documents. ... The documents were confiscated last August when Israel seized and closed down Orient House, the east Jerusalem building that served as the PLO's headquarters in the city for nearly a decade.")"Terror Documented" (Michael Kelly, The Washington Post, 2002/04/10)
Kelly points to the Karine A and documents found in the Ramallah compound as evidence that the terrorist infrastructure has been supported and protected by Arafat's Palestinian Authority: "But during the current crisis, it has become impossible to maintain the fiction of Arafat as a pursuer of peace (impossible, that is, except for certain members of the news media and the Nobel Peace Prize committee). It has become impossible to deny that he is anything other than, as Sharon said, the architect of the Palestinian war and the dispatcher of Palestinian mass murder. ... Neither Israel nor America can any longer pretend Arafat is anything but the overall director of the war against Israel. It is possible, of course, to make peace with him still. But only by defeating him, and the forces under his command, and negotiating from the point of their surrender. And surrender stems from victory in war.""Israel Says Arafat Signed Pay Slip to 'Terrorists'" (Douglas Frantz, The New York Times, 2002/04/04)
"Israel made public several documents today that it says prove that Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat authorized cash payments as recently as January to members of his Fatah faction accused of terrorist acts against Israeli civilians. The documents were copies of facsimiles bearing what appeared to be Mr. Arafat's signature. They approved payments, ranging from $350 to $600 each, to 15 men identified by Israel as terrorists, including a leader of a Palestinian militant group who was killed by the Israelis with a concealed bomb on Jan. 14. ... Israeli government and military officials said the documents were the most compelling evidence yet of Mr. Arafat's role in the wave of bloody attacks and retaliations that have swept the region in recent months.""Yasser Arafat's "Mukata" compound in Ramallah: A center for controlling and supporting terrorism" (IMRA, 2002/04/02)
"Arafat's compound in Ramallah houses the office of Fuad Shoubaki, the accounting administration of the Palestinian General Security Service. Shoubaki is the chief procurement and finance officer of the Palestinian Authority and was one of the key players involved in the "Karine A" arms smuggling affair. ... Inside Tiraawi and Shoubaki's office building, IDF forces found a large amount of weapons, including RPG launchers, which the PA is forbidden to possess according to its agreements with Israel. IDF forces also found counterfeit money as well as documents belonging to Fuad Shoubaki. ... Evidence found by IDF forces in the course of the present operation in Ramallah established a clear linkage between Shoubaki and the Al-Aksa Brigades. ... One document captured in Ramallah, for example, is a request from Al-Aksa officials, dated September 16th, asking Shoubaki for money to prepare bombs - "the costs of making one explosive charge is at least 700NIS. Each week, we require 5 to 9 charges for cells operating in the various regions". A handwritten document found in the same office, translates this request to monetary terms using a simple method of calculation: an average of 7 bombs a week = 5000NIS a week or 20,000NIS per month." (See also: "Yasser Arafat's "Mukata" compound in Ramallah: A center for controlling and supporting terrorism" (IDF, 2002/04/02) and "Israel: Documents link Al Aqsa to Palestinian finance official" (CNN.com, 2002/04/02), with facsimiles (here and here) as well as a "Translation of documents from Palestinian Authority office": "The documents captured in Ramallah showed the brigades were "an established organization, which holds official correspondence with Fouad al-Shoubaki's office in order for it to finance its planned operations," the IDF said. ... Hassan Abdel Rahman, the Palestinian representative to the United States, dismissed the documents as a forgery. "This is a fraud by Israeli intelligence," Rahman told CNN. 'There is an Israeli department that specializes in putting out lies.'" )"Overview of Operation 'Homat Magen'" (Arutz Sheva, 2002/03/31)
"The official list of confiscated weaponry [in Arafat’s compound] as follows:
An RPG launcher
43 RPG rockets
2 60mm mortar bombs
22 Kalashnikov (AK-47) rifles
1 short Kalashnikov rifle
13 micro Kalashnikov rifles
Norwegian sniper weapons
A Barreta 762
9mm automatic Barreta rifles
An Arba-type assault rifle
3 PK
4 #26 fragmentation grenades
A Miller fragmentation grenade
A smoke grenade
A #400 gas grenade
128 commando knives
2 MAG action crates
30 5.56 action crates
3 crates of Kalashnikov ammunition
99 Kalashnikov magazines
30 pistol magazines
A Barreta magazine
35 M-16 magazines
8 7.62mm magazines
5 9mm magazines
6 short M16 magazines
18 combat vests
5 bulletproof vests
24 telescopic sights
5 night-vision devices
Binoculars"
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