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Titolo: Forbes ed i regnanti più ricchi

La nota rivista americana Forbes ha stilato la classifica dei 10 regnanti
più ricchi del mondo.
Tra i soliti noti, come la Regina di Inghilterra o i vari sultani, anche
degli insospettabili: entro i primi otto posti si trovano infatti Saddm
Hussein, Arafat e Fidel Castro.
Se per Saddam poteva forse essere anche scontato (sono comunque 4000
miliardi delle vecchie lire, alla faccia dei bambini iracheni che muoiono di
fame per l'embargo), sorprendono le centinaia di miliardi di vecchie lire di
patrimonio personale del rivoluzionario Castro e del leader dei Palestinesi
Arafat. Ancora una volta a dimostrare che in primis il potere risolve i
problemi di chi ce l'ha.

più ricchi del mondo.
La notizia era gia' stata pubblicata un paio di volte sul ng.
Cosi' come allora rispondo (con un bel ctrl+v)
[ctrl+v]:
Ho trovato in proposito anche l'articolo che riporto sotto (non ho tempo
ne' voglia di tradurre, scusate), che specifica piu' dettagliatamente
alcune cose. Lo posto per completezza di informazione.
Non riesco invece a trovare la classifica originale sul sito di Forbes.
C'e' un articolo che parla delle persone piu' ricche del mondo e alcune
classifiche ma non compaiono i suddetti. Se c'e qualcuno meno impedito di
me nella ricerca e ha voglia di dare un'occhiata...
http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/02/26/billionaireland.html
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http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=1748
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"Arafat, Hussein, Castro All Make Forbes Wealthiest List"
Posted by Dr. Steven Plaut
Saturday, March 01, 2003 
Melissa Radler comments on 
Forbes Magazine's annual list of 500 Billionaires:
       Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat made Forbes Magazine's
list of the world richest people in a new category reserved for kings,
queens, and despots.  With a personal fortune of at least $300 million
stashed away in Swiss  banks, Arafat is featured in Forbes's special
annual issue on the world's top 500 billionaires.  Arafat placed No. 6 on
a list of world leaders in the ''kings, queens, and despots'' category.
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd topped the list at $20 billion, and Saddam
Hussein was fourth with $2b. 
       Forbes wrote that Arafat has ''feasted on all sorts of funds
flowing into the Palestinian Authority, including aid money, Israeli tax
transfers, and revenue from a casino and Coca-Cola bottler.  Much of the
money appears to have gone to pay off others.  New Finance Minister Salaam
Fayad is cleaning up the PA's finances, cutting off much of Arafat's cash
flow.''  The Forbes figure is modest in comparison to other estimates of
Arafat's riches. In a briefing delivered last August to the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aharon
(Farkash) Ze'evi reported his net worth at $1.3b. In 1990, the CIA
reportedly estimated 
that Arafat and the PLO had between $8b. and $14b. worth of assets at
their disposal. In 1995, the US General Accounting Office compiled a
report on Arafat's finances, but it was kept secret due to ''national
security interests.'' 
       Kept off the official billionaires list because, according to the
accompanying text, ''they don't exactly represent success stories of
entrepreneurial capitalism,'' Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro,
worth $110m., made it onto the list of rogue rich instead. The section
features a two-page spread titled ''Auditing Arafat,'' which surmises he
''may be brought to heel by, of all things, honest financial accounting.''
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Yaser Arafat
Country/Title: Palestinian Authority/President 
Estimated Worth: $300 million 
Age: 73 
 
The president of the Palestinian Authority clings to power despite Israeli
and U.S. hostility to his regime.  Arafat has feasted on all sorts of
funds flowing into the P.A., including aid money, Israeli tax transfers,
and revenue from a casino and Coca-Cola bottler.  Much of the money
appears to have gone to pay off others.  New Finance Minister Salam Fayyad
is cleaning up the P.A.'s finances, cutting off much of Arafat's cash
flow. 
_______________________
Fidel Castro 
Country/Title: Cuba/President 
Estimated Worth: $110 million 
Age: 76 
 
Cuba's 76-year-old revolutionary doesn't advertise his opulent life.  In
public, at least, he dons fatigues and black combat boots.  But he can
afford better.  We estimate that Castro has at least $110 million (roughly
10% of Cuba's GDP) at his disposal. 
________________________
Saddam Hussein
Country/Title: Iraq/President 
Estimated Worth: $2 billion 
Age: 65 
 
The Iraqi strongman is facing the biggest threat yet to his dictatorship.
The U.S. seems bent on dethroning him from his seat of power in Baghdad,
where he has been perched since 1979. For some two decades he has enriched
himself off Iraqi oil revenue, building palaces all over the desert
nation.  While wars are a costly hobby, he's still well off by any
definition.  
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