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Mrs. Arafat keeps husband on life support
www.wordtribune.com ^ | November 4, 2004 | GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM

Posted on 11/04/2004 2:29:52 PM PST by kennedy

Mrs. Arafat keeps husband on life support

Where's his money?

RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has died. He was 75 years old.

Israeli and Palestinian officials said Arafat died on Thursday in a military hospital in Paris. They said Arafat was deemed clinically dead, but still attached to life support systems on the insistence of his wife, Suha.

"He is dead, but neither Arafat's wife nor the Palestinian leadership is ready to announce this," a PA official said. "The announcement could take place on Friday."

The problem is that Arafat is still the only Palestinian official who can pay the bills. And it is unclear who, if anyone, has access to the estimated $2-3 billion in his personal Swiss bank accounts, according to a report in the current edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.

Arafat continues to hold the purse strings to the Palestinian finances. For the last decade, he has been the final, and often only word on payment to everybody from the suicide bomber to the janitor. Not a dime was paid without Arafat's okay.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arafat; wot
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In related news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
1 posted on 11/04/2004 2:29:52 PM PST by kennedy
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To: kennedy

Talk about a waste of good oxygen....


2 posted on 11/04/2004 2:30:52 PM PST by pipecorp ("never know where you're going till you get there." the philosopher Insectus Harem)
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To: kennedy

Hey Arafat! It's only money and you can't take it with you. If you could take it with you, it would burn.


3 posted on 11/04/2004 2:31:10 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: kennedy

Paging Dr. Kevorkian... Dr. Kevorkian...


4 posted on 11/04/2004 2:31:12 PM PST by anonymous_user (The Surgeon General never said anything about smokin' Liberals.)
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To: kennedy

Think she's seen "Weekend at Bernie's"?


5 posted on 11/04/2004 2:31:17 PM PST by MHT
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To: kennedy

I would like to be present when he finds out what God thinks of stinking terrorists.


6 posted on 11/04/2004 2:31:25 PM PST by bilhosty
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To: kennedy

She's still looking for the WILL, too, I suspect.


7 posted on 11/04/2004 2:32:27 PM PST by Boundless (I've heard of Life Support, but it would appear that Arafat is on Death Support.)
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To: Boundless

While he is alive she can drain the accounts.

There isn't much time.


8 posted on 11/04/2004 2:33:28 PM PST by Sam the Sham
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To: kennedy

Why not just have him stuffed and mounted? They could wheel him to congratulate the mothers of suicide bombers.


9 posted on 11/04/2004 2:34:03 PM PST by Kiss Me Hardy
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To: kennedy

I didn't know excrement was considered alive.


10 posted on 11/04/2004 2:34:09 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (recycled: Black dogs are my life.)
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To: kennedy

Wonder what's going to happen to all that money when Arafat is gone. From the sounds of it, it doesn't look like the PA has access to them. And possibly, neither is Arafat's wife.


11 posted on 11/04/2004 2:34:16 PM PST by Simmy2.5 (Kerry has been relieved of duty!)
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To: kennedy

OOpsie.

Who has the pin to the ATM card?


12 posted on 11/04/2004 2:35:06 PM PST by najida (Liberals are the ultimate arrogant bigot....but they don't even know it.)
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To: Sam the Sham
Follow the money to the DNC.


PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY the DNC

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........



13 posted on 11/04/2004 2:35:55 PM PST by Diogenesis (Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
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To: kennedy
Surprise, surprise

See ya...

wouldn't wanna be ya!

14 posted on 11/04/2004 2:35:58 PM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: Sam the Sham
While he is alive she can drain the accounts.

She deserves every penny. She had to SLEEP with that guy.

15 posted on 11/04/2004 2:36:10 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Simmy2.5

I tried my damndest to dredge up a tear for that stinking terrorist..couldnt do it.HEY!! Anyone know who the Buckeyes are playing this weekend????


16 posted on 11/04/2004 2:37:17 PM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: kennedy

Funny ha ha!

Odd that Arafat failed right after Bush won, huh?


17 posted on 11/04/2004 2:37:32 PM PST by Californiajones ("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
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To: kennedy

Where can I send a floral arrangement to ? With some C4.


18 posted on 11/04/2004 2:38:14 PM PST by Westlander (BzzZZZ Pffft Gone)
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To: kennedy
God is on a roll!!!
19 posted on 11/04/2004 2:38:17 PM PST by Paloma_55
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To: Sam the Sham
"While he is alive she can drain the accounts."

Some of his cronies are already transferring "financial power"....

20 posted on 11/04/2004 2:38:20 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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