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Unknown Coma Known to be Reversable??? (Arafat)
Canadian Press ^ | 11/5/2004 | lara Sukhitan

Posted on 11/05/2004 1:32:01 AM PST by konaice

CLAMART, France (AP) - Doctors fought to keep Yasser Arafat alive as anxious Palestinian officials looked for ways to prevent unrest if their 75-year-old leader, said to be in a coma Friday, dies.

A swirl of reports saying Arafat had died Thursday were quashed by doctors at the French military hospital where he has been treated since being airlifted to France last week. Arafat's aides, however, acknowledged his condition was very serious. On Friday, Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid told Israel TV's Channel Two that Arafat was brain dead and on life support. But a Palestinian spokeswoman denied Lapid's assertion.

"He is in a coma. We don't know the type but it's a reversible coma," Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told French RTL radio.

Shahid said Arafat was put under anesthesia to have medical tests, including an endoscopy and a biopsy of the spinal cord.

"The doctors don't have a diagnosis," she said. "All vital organs are functioning. This is why all the doctors say that he could or could not wake up."

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To: BykrBayb
They put him the coma, but they don't know what type of coma it is?

I never said the French doctors were too smart, obviously I was referring to what would be done here in America! LOL

21 posted on 11/05/2004 2:08:46 AM PST by blondee123 (Proud Member of the FR Pajama Blogger Brigade - New Sheriffs in Town!)
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To: konaice

I suppose Kerry has his bags packed to attend the funeral!


22 posted on 11/05/2004 2:11:02 AM PST by blondee123 (Proud Member of the FR Pajama Blogger Brigade - New Sheriffs in Town!)
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To: blondee123

Oh. Yeah, here in America, I'm sure somebody would put him in a coma. I'd be happy to do it. LOL


23 posted on 11/05/2004 2:12:14 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: konaice

If George Bush would lift the ban on Stem Cell Research. Arafat would get up and walk! (/sarcasm)


24 posted on 11/05/2004 2:13:08 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: CONGHUNTER
Hospital stay: paid by the French tax payer

Have they surrendered yet?

25 posted on 11/05/2004 2:30:00 AM PST by Joe Miner
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To: Jackson Brown

perhaps he has just 'ascended' to another plane...

or some such line of drivel.


26 posted on 11/05/2004 2:36:13 AM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election... failed.)
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To: konaice
"He is in a coma. We don't know the type but it's a reversible coma,"

Then how do you know it's reversible? So if it's reversible, then reverse it.

27 posted on 11/05/2004 2:36:34 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (George W. Bush -- The Terror of the Terrorists)
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To: newzjunkey

Perhaps we should all be sending france a healthy supply of wooden stakes, no?


28 posted on 11/05/2004 2:38:07 AM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election... failed.)
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To: GeronL

I know his code:
six. six. six.


29 posted on 11/05/2004 2:38:56 AM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election... failed.)
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To: maryz

They're probably backdating lots and lots of large checks and are using a copying machine for his signature.


30 posted on 11/05/2004 2:41:10 AM PST by hershey
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To: konaice
"He is in a coma. We don't know the type but it's a reversible coma,"

Maybe he's like that SPACE BUG in Men In Black, you know, the one who wore the human 'skin'???
31 posted on 11/05/2004 2:41:24 AM PST by Barney59 (Honesty is the only policy)
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To: maryz

Same thoughts here, esp. in view of our recently past election process. The 'Arafat absconding w/ PLO funds' has been reported off & on for several years along w/ Suha's lavish lifestyle.

Here's one of the more recent/ past stories:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/60minutes/main582487.shtml


32 posted on 11/05/2004 2:42:39 AM PST by elli1
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To: GeronL

They're got him hooked up to jumper cables, trying to get those bank codes, give him a jolt and telling him to blink twice for 2, etc..


33 posted on 11/05/2004 2:42:47 AM PST by hershey
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To: FormerACLUmember

If he had Aides, they'll never admit it.


34 posted on 11/05/2004 2:43:37 AM PST by hershey
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To: konaice

No their REAL problem is that under Islamic Law they have to bury him within 24 hrs of 'death' - and given that Arafat stated that he wanted to be buried on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the PA is trying to figure a way to finesse this without inviting massive Israeli interference


35 posted on 11/05/2004 3:04:48 AM PST by Armigerous
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To: hershey

Hehehe!


36 posted on 11/05/2004 3:11:52 AM PST by T'wit (The more intelligent candidate won.)
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To: konaice

Arafat's going to be the Palestinian's answer to Elvis,
They'll say he got taken up to the spaceship.
There'll be 'Arafat Impersonators' everywhere.
This is nothing but a cruel attempt to pull the wool
over the eyes of the Palestinian people.


37 posted on 11/05/2004 3:15:11 AM PST by golas1964 ("He tasks me... He tasks me, and I shall have him!")
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To: GeronL
If I remember correctly from the stories about Arafat's plane crash in Libya some years ago, he carried a "little black book" with him at all times..

He kept an inventory in that book of all the accounts, their balances, and passcodes..

38 posted on 11/05/2004 3:18:49 AM PST by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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To: konaice
I turned on Imus this morning because Fox News along with other channels, are off the air.  Time Warner is having problems I guess.

Well, Imus said that Arafat has AIDS.  And one of the other guys said he caught it from MONKEY sex!

Isn't this awful? hehe

I didn't KNOW that Arafat even HAD a monkey. hehe!

39 posted on 11/05/2004 3:19:50 AM PST by SheLion ( Thank God from on high! 4 More Years with President Bush!)
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To: konaice
"He is in a coma. We don't know the type but it's a reversible coma," Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told French RTL radio."

This is almost funny!

Hey, terrorist...yes...over here.............It's called DEATH!

40 posted on 11/05/2004 3:21:52 AM PST by LadyPilgrim (Sealed my pardon with His blood, Hallelujah!!! What a Savior!!!)
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