Telephone interview with Arafat during the siege on his compound in March 2002, during which Chairman Arafat hung up
...and Jimmy Carter blames the media for Obama's failure? YOU MUST SHOW RESPECT TO CHAIRMAN ARAFAT!
via eye-on-the-world.blogspot.comThousands of artifacts from former PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat's life are being gathered for a new $3.4 million museum in Ramallah. The facility, set to open within the year, is being built on to the Muqata – the compound where the PLO chairman spent the last two years of his life.
Are they using the food aid money to build this museum?
That section of the building, which now serves as the headquarters for his successor, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has been sealed since Arafat's death on November 11, 2004.
The museum is being built by the Yasser Arafat Foundation, inaugurated in Cairo in February 2008 by a group that included PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and Arafat's nephew, Nasser al-Qidwa, who became chairman of the board.
Some $5 million was already in the foundation's coffers by the time the organization was officially launched. However, the source of the funding is not clear, and no information is publicly available.
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