(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - PA leader Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday suspended the director of his bureau, Rafik Husseini, who has been at the center of a major sex scandal. Abbas also established a three-man commission of inquiry to look into the matter consisting of three senior Fatah officials: Abu Maher Ghneim, Azzam al-Ahmed and Rafik Natsheh. Fahmi Shabaneh, the Palestinian General Intelligence Service official who exposed the scandal, expressed fear that the members of the commission of inquiry - all Abbas loyalists - would try to "bury" the cases of corruption that he exposed. One of the commission members, "Azzam al-Ahmed, and his brother, Allam, are suspected of embezzlement of more than $2.5 million," he said. "How can someone like this be appointed to investigate corruption?"
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