From Bush Gets Green Light to Help Fund Palestinian Security Forces: The U.S. will provide $59 million in aid to boost security forces loyal to Mahmud Abbas after members of Congress dropped their objections to the deal, officials said Tuesday. $43 million would go to train and equip the Palestinian Presidential Guard, which answers directly to Abbas, and another $16 million would be spent to improve security and infrastructure at the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza. A State Department official said strict controls would be placed on the aid and that “none of this assistance will benefit Hamas
Read More +Abu Mazen, now known as the president of the Palestinian Authority, also paid for the murder of Israel’s olympic athletes in 1972. Mahmoud Abbas financed the “Black September” terror attack which killed 11 athletes including one U.S. citizen, a weightlifter named David Berger who was an American from Cleveland, Ohio. On September 5, 1972, a squad of heavily armed Palestinian terrorists attacked the dormitories housing the Israeli Olympic team and murdered a coach and weight-lifter David Berger, who was an American citizen. The terrorists then took nine Israeli athletes hostage. While the terrorists and their hostages were transported to the
Read More +