Palestinians bilked U.S. taxpayers out of millions?

Posted by Bible Probe on March 08, 2006 at 08:38:06:

In Reply to: Weirdo Whacko Jewish sect (Neturei Karta) Jews hurting Jews posted by Bible Probe on March 08, 2006 at 08:28:33:

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Palestinians bilked U.S. taxpayers out of millions?
Congress hears study contending PA population numbers massively inflated

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Posted: March 8, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Congress today will be presented with a new study that documents the Palestinians have inflated their population numbers by over 50 percent and that almost $3 billion in United States taxpayer funds may have been provided as aid to the Palestinians in part based on fraudulent data.

"American tax dollars and other international humanitarian aid have been based on inflated population numbers which have been accepted without question by governments and aid agencies. Our researchers pointed out that money has been spent to help Palestinians who were double-counted, never born or not present in the West Bank and Gaza," Bennet Zimmerman, head of the new study, titled "Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza," told WND.

Zimmerman led a team of researchers who found Palestinians have inflated their population by close to 1.5 million, in some cases counting people in some cities twice. He was invited to testify today at a House International Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East chaired by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., probing U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority.

Since 1994, the United States has reportedly given nearly $1.8 billion in direct aid to the PA and nongovernmental organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, usually delineated through the U.S. Agency for International Development. America has also provided more than $1.1 billion to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which oversees Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, according to State Department records.

U.S. assistance to the Palestinians last year alone reportedly totaled $282 million.

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Palestinians bilked U.S. taxpayers out of millions?

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