The money will be accounted for eventually. I mean, they're running the Palestinian Authority now, which indicates someone besides Arafat has access to the funds.

I know the money thing all sounds 'irregular' to say the least, to conventional middle class folks. But let's face it, Arafat wasn't living like a king. Sure he made sure his family was taken care of, sure graft, corruption, and bribery was part and parcel of the way he did business. But Arafat never struck me as a guy who was ever into the money for anything except the power it gave him to control people and buy the PLO's way in and out of rough spots.

In other words, he wasn't a Saddam Hussein, who put a lot of his ill gotten gains into palaces, etc. Arafat wasn't greedy, just knew he needed a lot of liquidity to run the revolution his way.