Carter Center Web site's 2004-05 annual report
- the most recent available - the center has received "in excess of $1 million" from characters like Prince Al-Walid bin Talal.
Bin Talal, you might recall, is the Saudi prince who insultingly offered $20 million to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. The cash was held out not because the prince cared about terrorism but to rub in that the attack was really a byproduct of the Palestine conflict.
The streetwise Giuliani, who once threw Yasser Arafat out of a New York theater, wasn't fooled by bin Talal's power play and told him to keep his dirty money to himself. Giuliani smelled the quid pro quo and wasn't a man who could be bought.
Carter looks a little different...
©2007 Investor's Business Daily, Inc. Jimmy Carter's Li'l Ol' Stink Tank, 1/2/2007
Bin Talal, you might recall, is the Saudi prince who insultingly offered $20 million to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. The cash was held out not because the prince cared about terrorism but to rub in that the attack was really a byproduct of the Palestine conflict.
The streetwise Giuliani, who once threw Yasser Arafat out of a New York theater, wasn't fooled by bin Talal's power play and told him to keep his dirty money to himself. Giuliani smelled the quid pro quo and wasn't a man who could be bought.
Carter looks a little different...
©2007 Investor's Business Daily, Inc. Jimmy Carter's Li'l Ol' Stink Tank, 1/2/2007