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WORLD BANK FUNDING TERRORISM
Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, an independent monitoring organization, has revealed that the World Bank is indirectly funding terrorism carried out by Palestinian Authority-based organizations.

Marcus reports that World Bank officials met with PA representatives last month to discuss significant World Bank investment in "the infrastructure for the Palestinian institutions of higher education." (Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 25, 2004)

However, Marcus says, those same PA universities "all have official student branches of Hamas (called Al-Kutlah Al-Islamiyah) and Islamic Jihad (called Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyah), both terrorist organizations outlawed on the US and EU terrorist list. The World Bank will be building the university infrastructures that will be used by student terrorist organizations to form the backbone of suicide terrorism in coming years."

The PMW's Marcus provides ample evidence of such use of foreign funding. At An-Najah University, for example, student representatives of the Islamic Jihad used school facilities to create installation art celebrating the 2001 Sbarro's pizzeria bombing. The display included a mock pizza parlor splattered with pizza and body parts.

Arab students who were active in PA university-based cells of Hamas and Islamic Jihad alone have been responsible for the deaths of 53 people and the injuring of more than 100 in several terrorist bombings.

The current pledge by the World Bank will not be its first foray into promoting terrorism "through negligence or by turning a blind eye," PMW reports. Last year, the Bank funded "development of the Dalal Mughrabi Street" in Gaza, named for a terrorist who murdered 36 Israelis and the American photographer Gail Rubin in a 1978 bus hijacking, as well as construction of a school in Jenin named after the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Ali Mustafa, responsible for planning and executing numerous bombings in Israel.

And it is not just the World Bank. Citing several PA media reports, the PMW Director charges that aid organizations such as the German Development Agency, the United Nations Development Project and USAID have provided funds for projects memorializing Arab terrorists and promoting terrorism.

In a particularly ironic twist, "USAID funded projects in... the Arab American University in Jenin, which sponsored numerous anti-American and terrorist-supporting rallies last year," Marcus says. "One event included 'blessings' to those fighting American soldiers in Iraq. The rally opened with 'a speech given by the Arab-American University lecturer Dr. Hamad Hussein... He blessed the Iraqi resistance for its firm stand against the American- British occupation...' [Al-Ayyam, Nov. 4, 2003] This and other anti-American activities continued while USAID was funding programs at this university." (In a January 2004 letter to PMW, a USAID representative said that USAID has ceased funding PA universities directly, and is now giving scholarships to students.)

"If the World Bank funds PA universities without demanding the closure of their terror branches, this may be the most direct financing of terrorism to date by the World Bank," Itamar Marcus concludes.

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I just heard on Rush Limbaugh (WABC Radio, 770 AM) yesterday or the day before that there is a $100 billion corruption charges against the World Bank.

(I bet you Kofe Annan got a chunk of that one....)

Anyone has an article on it?


PS: What happened to dear old Con Doleezza ????? She used to sound less like Powell and now, he can't hold a candle to her.....or am I mistaken?