More powerful ‘than Arafat’: Abbas pardons official suspected of embezzling millions

More powerful ‘than Arafat’: Abbas pardons official suspected of embezzling millions

Special to WorldTribune.com RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has cleared a senior ex-commander of charges of corruption. Palestinian sources said Abbas has essentially pardoned former Gaza Strip police chief Brig. Gen. Ghazi Jabali. In 2007, Jabali fled the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip and later re-settled in Jordan under suspicion of stealing […]