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August 14, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat has secretly amassed at least $1.3 billion in "personal assets," Israel's chief of military
intelligence said yesterday.

The main source of Arafat's wealth is believed to be the approximately $6 billion contributed by the United States, Japan and
European countries as financial aid to the authority from 1993 to 2000, sources said.