May 19, 2006

BETTER THAN C-4 IN HIS VEST:

Hamas official caught with £450,000 hidden in clothes (Tim Butcher, 20/05/2006, Daily Telegraph)

Rival Palestinian forces were involved in a stand-off at Gaza's border crossing with Egypt yesterday after a Hamas official was caught with €639,000 (£450,000) hidden in his clothing, authorities said. [...]

The money may have been from a £30 million donation from Qatar to the Hamas-led Palestinian government which could not be moved through banks because of US-led sanctions against the group for its support of terrorism.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 19, 2006 9:44 PM
Comments

Isn't Qatar supposed to be one of our allies? But they are giving $30MM to the Palestinian govt through back channels?

Posted by: AWW at May 19, 2006 11:24 PM

The Palestinians are their friends too.

Posted by: oj at May 19, 2006 11:33 PM

Your're saying that Qatar has a more unified goverment then we do?

Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at May 20, 2006 12:06 AM

But not nearly as good as a cherry bomb in his shorts.

Posted by: joe shropshire at May 20, 2006 10:20 PM
« IF THEY WERE NATIVES THEY'D BE ON THE DOLE: | Main | NAUGHTY BITS: »