From: "Phil Payne" 

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:4440c47c{at}w3....
> > I think longer term it will be good for the Arabs to actually start
> > putting their money where their mouth is & it may start the development
> > of what everyone knows should happen which is in effect an Arab EU. I
> > would call it the AU but the Africans already have dibs on that.
>
> They will cast their net wider than the Arabs.  The main support is coming
> from the Iranians, who aren't Arabs anyway.  The Q'uran defines some very
> favourable interst rates.  And why turn your back on what the Phillipines
> can do?  Muslims also have the bomb.

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2
006-04-15T091957Z_01_L15711009_RTRIDST_0_MIDEAST-HAMAS-RUSSIA.XML

MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Russia said on Saturday it had promised
emergency aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority which warns it faces
economic collapse after direct funding was cut off by the United States and
the European Union.

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