Ma'ariv(Hebrew) reports today that Rakad Salam, the recently arrested head of the Arab Liberation Front in the West Bank, has been in charge of distributing Saddam's stipends to families of suicide bombers. The Arab Liberation Front is led by Abu Abbas, who organized the Achille Lauro hijacking. According to Ma'ariv sources at the Shin Bet, Salam claimed under interrogation that he received $15 million from Saddam, transferred from Baghdad to Ramallah by way of a bank in Amman, and that Saddam personally approved the schedule of payments to the families of dead and wounded terrorists: $10,000 for each death, $1,000 for a serious injury and $500 for a minor injury.

The Shin Bet claims further that Salam acknowledged that he had been aware of his own group's terror attacks, that he had served as a political advisor to Arafat, and that Arafat and other leaders of the Palestinian Authority were personally aware of Saddam's payments to families of terrorists.

UPDATE: The Ha'aretz English service now has a similar report. But you read it here first. Ha'aretz adds that "Over the past two years, the Shin Bet has arrested 16 Palestinians who underwent training in Iraqi military camps."