Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: una bomba a tempo: l'archivio di Arafat

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6466
Yasser Arafat's Secret Archive - a Ticking Bomb
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 429 Exclusive
January 19, 2010, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, inventor and refiner of the 
Islamic suicide terror weapon, left a time bomb ticking away six years 
after his mysterious death in Paris. His private archive is being fought 
over now in a quietly desperate tug-o'-war, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's 
intelligence sources revealed last week.
Arafat had few heroes aside from himself, but his chosen tutors were the 
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu (who was executed by his own people 
in 1989), and security chief, Gen. Ion Mihai Padepa. Bucharest was one 
of the few places in the world where the Palestinian terror chief felt 
he could go to ground safely while also indulging his unusual sexual 
habits. From Ceaucescu and Pacepa and their intelligence apparatus, the 
DIE, Arafat learned that the secrets of world figures and their private 
lives could be a primary source of immense political power.
Therefore, during his 36 years as head of the Palestinian movement, the 
PLO Arafat used the Palestinian spy agencies he controlled to 
methodically collect data and build up dossiers not only on Israeli, 
Arab and Muslim figures of the day but also a host of world leaders, 
politicians, generals, economic czars, high-tech executives and their 
families. Some are still in official positions.
 From 1966, while pioneering airliner hijackings and other violent 
practices for promoting the Palestinian cause, he secretly amassed and 
collated this material, helped by an army of assistants under his 
personal management. This world-class international terrorist 
undoubtedly used some of its incriminating content to lever himself onto 
the world stage as a respected figure.
When Israel allowed him to set himself up on the West Bank and Gaza 
Strip in 1994, under the Oslo Framework Peace Accords, Arafat decided to 
leave his secret archive behind at his place of exile in Tunis to make 
sure it stayed out of Israeli hands.
After his death, its management passed to the veteran PLO personnel 
chief Abdel Abu Maher Ghneim, who was in charge of the various 
Palestinian factions' terrorist personnel and their funding. Ghneim was 
against the Oslo accords and preferred exile to joining the relocated 
Palestinian leadership in Ramallah.
That was until August, 2009, when the Palestinian Authority Chairman 
Mahmoud Abbas prevailed on him to accept the appointment of senior 
deputy to the PA chairman and his heir apparent. The archive manager's 
move to Ramallah gave Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali his 
chance. As soon as the Palestinian had gone, Ben Ali sent his secret 
service to seize the priceless Arafat archive and bar access to any 
Palestinian official or visitor.
During December, Abbas made several phone calls to talk the Tunisian 
President round into releasing the Arafat archive for transfer to 
Ramallah. Ben Ali was unmoved, even when Abbas explained emotionally 
that it was part of the Arafat legacy and the bedrock of Palestinian 
independence.
In early January, a high-ranking Palestinian delegation went to Tunis to 
offer Ben Ali a compromise: They would be allowed to photocopy the 
secret archive documents while leaving the originals in Tunis.
This too, the Tunisian ruler refused. But by then, he had found a 
legalistic cloak for his position: Yasser Arafat's widow, Suha, was the 
only legitimate claimant to any Arafat property, he told his 
disappointed visitors.
Ben Ali had done his homework.
He knew about the deal Abbas had cut with the widow in 2005 after a year 
of interminable wrangling over Arafat's assets. Suha was awarded the 
colossal stipend of $80 million per annum under a contract with the 
Palestinian Authority that was contingent on her complying with two 
conditions: She must never divulge any information about her dead 
husband's life and never leave her place of exile on the island of Malta.
Arafat's widow agreed that if she breached those conditions, she would 
forfeit the funds held by her and Palestinian Authority officials in a 
joint bank account.
Therefore, as the Tunisian president knew very well, Suha Arafat would 
never travel to Tunis to claim her inheritance, including the precious 
secret archive.

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