These letters convey to the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR) - the ostensibly independent agency charged with the scrupulously apolitical distribution of humanitarian assistance - astounding directives from Mr. Arafat (under the nom de guerre Abu Amar).
Prosecutors questioned the ex-president of the agency supervising Lebanon's post-war reconstruction over the building of an unlicensed jetty hardly the most egregious abuse of power.