I hate when this happens- you're doing a few bank transactions and, completely by accident, you give millions of dollars to your sworn enemies. Hey, it could happen to anybody, right?
The government of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas inadvertently paid one month’s salary to 3,500 members of the Hamas militia he outlawed, Finance Ministry officials said Wednesday.
Or a year's salary according to another source. Gee, Mahmoud must be new to this internet banking lark.
The salaries were paid out of funds transferred by Israel, who specifically stipulated that the money mustn’t reach Hamas. The ministry ordered banks on Wednesday to cancel the deposits - totaling $2.3 million - made the day before, officials said in telephone interviews from the West Bank town of Ramallah. However, by the time the deposits were canceled, some of the militiamen had withdrawn the money, said Ahab Ghussen, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza.
$2.3 million. One would almost be tempted to point out that such sloppy accounting procedures might explain the dire financial hardship the PA has been labouring under for years. A few million here, a few million there and before you know it the people are starving and out of work and you've got a bulging Swiss bank account and a few hundred rockets.
Accidents will happen, eh?
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