Report: Arafat Invested in Bowling Company (Strange bed fellows)

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Arafat-Bowling-Alley.html?oref=login

December 23, 2004
Report: Arafat Invested in Bowling Company
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:30 a.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat invested $1.3 million in a company that owns a popular bowling alley in Greenwich Village, newly released documents show.

Arafat made the investment in New York City-based Strike Holdings, owner of Bowlmor Lanes, through a holding company he created called Onyx Funds, Bloomberg Markets Magazine reported Wednesday.

Bowlmor is located several blocks from the campus of New York University and is popular with Manhattan hipsters, who pay about $8 a game per person to play on evenings and weekends.

News of the investment disturbed some customers at the alley, which advertises on its Web site as an ideal location for bar and bat mitzvahs for Jewish teens.

...more at AP

[Tesla]

1. Classic!!

Arafat owned a Jewish bowling.
Oh well, Sharon and Bush & Co. own the West Bank.

[KittyWampus]

2. Let Me Find The Correct Emoticon For This

:wtf: or :D

[Englander]

3. Quote from a customer at the bowling alley;

``If I had known, I wouldn't have come, but I promised the kids,'' said Steve Saslow, 55.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4690408,00.html