Posted on 11/04/2004 8:41:19 AM PST by 4kevin
Yasser Arafat has died at the age of 75 after failing to be revived from the coma he slipped into on Wednesday at the French military hospital where he was being treated for an undiagnosed blood and digestive disorder.
Yasser Arafat, the 75 year-old Palestinian leader, has died in the intensive care department of the French military hospital where he was being treated for an unknown illness.
The frail head of the Palestinian Authority arrived in Paris last week after losing consciousness briefly at his West Bank headquarters. Arafat was at first said to have been suffering from a severe case of influenza, but was later diagnosed as having blood abnormalities and trouble with digestion.
Palestinian officials then ran tests for leukemia but the cancer was ruled out, and doctors remained uncertain what was causing his illness. Arafat's condition worsened three days ago and he slipped into a coma on Wednesday.
Born in Cairo in 1929, Yasser Arafat preferred to claim Jerusalem as his birthplace. He became politically active as a 19-year-old engineering student in Egypt in 1948, when the Arab countries that declared war on the fledgling state of Israel were defeated and thousands of Palestinians forced to flee their homes as a result.
This just in: Idi Amin also dead
Maybe they will blame France.
Aw shucks...that's O.K.....just pack his carcass on ice, and ship him over here to the U.S.A. so the democrats can have him vote in the next presidential election with all the other dead people they register, and have vote. :-)
But first the Palis are going on the traditional arab way of killing each others...
May his virgins in heaven all look like hillary clinton.
Another one bites the dust. I guess Bush's plan is working. Forst the Taliban, then Saddam and now the godfather of terror Arafat.
At least he is in a warmer place now.
The leaders of France and Germany resign because they have let the world down in our fight on terror.
LOL
Yessir,You're A Fart is FINALLY going to get his COMEUPPANCE(What,No 72 Virgins??)You forgot one,The DEFEAT Of DasHole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good!
Better yet, how is Clinton holding up after losing his best friend?
New Holiday!
AP: The Palestinian prime minister is denying reports that Yasser Arafat has died... Developing...
(From Drudge): The Palestinaian PM is denying that Arafat is dead. Apparently he's just pining for the fjords.
POORLY,I HOPE???????????????
Feel like jumping up and down, firing an AK47 into the air and making that funny la la la lal sound Muslim women do with their tongues. In other words the same thing you would of seen from them if Bush lost.
Karma folks.... Karma.....
This is what happens when a we do things the right way not the liberal way....
:)
This should throw the PLO and Palistinian Authority into a major tizzy....
Honestly right now we should send in special force and clear out hamas and An ansars marytrs brigade while the infighting is occurring.
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