Sunday, March 14, 2010
Palestinian Authority whistleblower Fahmi Shabaneh has now had his home "effectively" siezed by the people who set him out on his job: PA takes whistle-blower's Jericho house
Palestinian Authority security personnel over the weekend seized a house belonging to Fahmi Shabaneh, the former Palestinian intelligence official who exposed a series of scandals that have seriously embarrassed the PA leadership.
Shabaneh told The Jerusalem Post that the security forces raided his house in Jericho, destroyed furniture, knocked down walls and confiscated equipment and personal items.
He lives in Jerusalem and holds an Israeli ID card like all permanent Arab residents of the city.
Shabaneh said that the raid was carried out by a joint force belonging to the PA's General Intelligence Service and the Civil Police.
Until recently, Shabaneh, a lawyer, was head of the anti-corruption unit in the General Intelligence Service...
...The PA issued an arrest warrant for Shabaneh last month after he exposed a sex scandal involving Rafik Husseini, director of PA President Mahmoud Abbas's bureau. The PA has accused Shabaneh of "high treason" and "collaboration" with Israel although he served in the Palestinian security services for nearly 15 years...
Oh, but wait, this part is reaaalllly interesting:
...Shabaneh, meanwhile, has threatened to expose a new scandal involving Sheikh Tayseer Bayoud Tamimi, chief judge of the Islamic Courts in the PA.
Shabaneh told the Post that he has issued an ultimatum to Tamimi, the highest-ranking Islamic figure in the PA territories, to resign within a week or else he would publish allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
Shabaneh said that when he was still in his job he received a number of complaints against the sheikh and other judges working in the Shari'a courts in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
He also released a recording of a phone call from last week in which Tamimi pleads with him not to expose details of the scandal he's allegedly involved in.
"After I publish the case against Judge Tamimi, he will be forced to resign because he has brought shame on the Islamic courts in Palestine," Shabaneh said. "His fate will be similar to that of Rafik Husseini, whom we filmed naked in the bedroom of an Arab woman from Jerusalem."
Shabaneh added that he also had incriminating material against a former PA minister who lives in the Jerusalem area. "He will be the next in line," he said. "This minister has also been begging me not to expose his file."
Tamimi is a scum-bag of international proportions (See, for instance, here and here, among many others). It would be a thing of beauty to see him go down ugly.
