U.S. Gives Palestinians $300 million in Contracts

08/18/2013

My latest from WND:

The U.S. government recently awarded a batch of contracts worth up to $300 million to Palestinian construction companies, including a firm targeted in a Palestinian Authority corruption probe.

PA Prosecutor-General Ahmed al-Mughni, likewise, survived the investigation, having escaped a car-bomb assassination attempt related to his probe of Tarifi Contracting & Reconstruction Co., other companies and PA officials, the Jerusalem Post reported at the time.

Continued at WND.com...

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Posted at 10:23 PM in Corruption and Waste, Gaza/West Bank, Israel, Middle East, USAID, White House, WND | Permalink

Technorati Tags: business, Gaza, government, Israel, politics, West Bank

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08/18/2013