Posted on 11/06/2004 10:40:52 AM PST by white trash redneck
Former White House speechwriter David Frum has joined the growing chorus of pundits, medical experts, and intelligence operatives who claim Yasser Arafat is likely suffering from AIDS.
Frum, a key figure in Republican politics and the man who coined the terms "axis of evil," writes in National Review Online that Arafat's undisclosed illness is well-known, but has been kept under wraps by the mainstream media.
"Speaking of media bias, here's a question you won't hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?" asks Frum, who also writes for the National Post.
"We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight -- possibly as much as one-third of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?"
Intelligence on "the tiger" romping with bodyguards Frum pointed to KGB evidence linking Arafat to homosexual activities between the 1960s and 1980s. He cites a 1987 book by Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa, the deputy chief of Romania's intelligence service under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. In his memoirs Red Horizons, Lt.-Gen. Pacepa claims Mr. Arafat's extensive KGB file revealed him as a voracious and profligate homosexual. He said Romanian agents had taped Mr. Arafat's sex sessions with his bodyguards in Bucharest in 1978.
In "Red Horizons," Pacepa relates a conversation with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization operations in deception and influence designed to fool the West into granting the organization recognition.
"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."
Munteaunu continued: "I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood and filth all together in one man." Munteaunu, wrote Pacepa, spent months pulling together secret reports from Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian intelligence agencies as well as Romanian files.
"I used to think I knew just about everything there was to know about Rahman al-Qudwa," Arafat's real name, "about the construction engineer who made a fortune in Kuwait, about the passionate collector of racing cars, about Abu Amman," Arafat's nom de guerre, "and about my friend Yasser, with all his hysterics," explained Munteaunu, handing Pacepa his final report on the PLO leader. "But I've got to admit that I didn't really know anything about him."
Pacepa wrote: "The report was indeed an incredible account of fanaticism, of devotion to his cause, of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teen-ager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading the report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever I had been kissed by Arafat, or even just shaken his hand."
"If true, Arafat would have a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world," writes Frum, suggesting that Arafat was airlifted to France for medical treatment because he "could trust the French to protect his intimate secret."
Earlier, John Loftus told John Batchelor on ABC radio on October 26 that Arafat is dying from AIDS. Loftus said the CIA has known this about Arafat for quite awhile and that as a result the US has encouraged Sharon not to take Arafat out because the US has known Arafat was about done. It was deemed better to have Arafat discredited as a homosexual.
Although homosexuality is rife in the Arab world, it is at least officially consider a sin and a crime, and regarded--especially in fundamentalist circles--as a mark of great shame and depravity.
The medical evidence adds up Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath Monday said that all types of cancer had been ruled out, and the latest news is that French doctors have ruled out poisoning.
Medical observers note that a low blood platelet count is a sign of a weakened immune system, and indeed last week there were reports of a complete collapse of Arafat's immune system. Other than the ruled-out cancer, the low count could be attributed to bleeding ulcers, colitis, liver disease, lupus, or HIV. It is believed that ulcers and colitis have already been ruled out.
Arafat has lost a considerable amount of body weight. Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, is known to have some of France's best HIV/AIDS doctors. Other medical experts note that Arafat's activities in recent weeks and months suggest the dementia that accompanies late-stage AIDS.
Medical authorities not connected directly to his case are suggesting that he may have HIV/AIDS. One doctor reported to an Israel Insider source that his suspicions have been growing for more than a year.
"I began to see tell tale signs of kaposis sarcoma. His Parkinsonian tremor was more than just a Parkinsonian tremor and he was also showing signs of weakness. The rumor about homosexuality/bisexuality has been around for decades. So I put two and two together when they started talking about his health over a year ago. The talk of a mysterious illness in this day and age should be a tip-off. He has some of the best physicians in the world attending to him. He can be diagnosed clinically, without perfoming any tests. All the doctors surrounding him know what he has. All this cloak and dagger about tests is a ruse. They understand the implications of divulging that he has HIV. If I were Suha I would be getting a little concerned."
If Arafat has AIDS, that would also explain Suha's reticence to allow the release of significant information about Arafat's condition, and the almost ludicrously tight-lipped reports of the French hospital spokesman, and the refusal of anyone connected with Arafat to hold a press conference in recent days.
I saw that too
Is this video online?
Casual rumphumping is very common among Muslim men, although open homosexuality is forbidden. There is an Arab saying that "Women are for children and men are for pleasure."
except for the part about sex with boys, you may be right.
Being from the West Coast I had no idea who Brudnoy was until I saw him on C-SPAN interviewing William F. Buckley. The radio show/interview seemed to be taking place in Brudnoy's house. After the interview they were going to have dinner there. I later looked up Brudnoy and found out about the AIDS thing. Apparently not a problem for Buckley.
A few years ago during a discussion about Arafat, I mentioned that I had read that he was homosexual and his wife was just a beard. He told me that he had read an article in the Forward (an old Yiddish/English newspaper that started out socialist, turned neocon and is now back on the left, but always Zionist) that Arafat's rumored homosexuality was a Mossad-planted falsehood to discredit him. The paper said it was disinformation (and they would have no reason to protect him).
More like what has he ever said that was proven?
"Oh mighty Satan, I am promised great riches, will be world famous, have all the little boys I want, and will pass peacefully in a French hospital bed at an advanced age, and all I have to do is kill Jews all my life?" "Done!"
I'm not disputing your points, but I have to ask if homosexuality is so prevalent in the Mideast why haven't we read about an aids epidemic there or do Arabs have a genetic immunity to aids?
"There is an Arab saying that "Women are for children and men are for pleasure."
Told you so, women are only viewed as incubators and slave labor. One of the reasons arab men have so many wives in order to do all the chores just like the polygomy male pigs out west in America.
Wow - a quick search of the Net reveals that this is old news! But not to me... Maybe Newsweek will tell us all about it - after he dies.
Well, I learned something new today. I never knew all of this about Middle Eastern men. I have never heard this at all.
Check out this!!!! http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Movies/yaser.wmv
You are a very charitable person. But I think buggery is pretty prevalent in Arab/Muslim culture (don't really know WHICH culture it's prevalent in. Probably Muslim, since you're not ever supposed to even SEE women that aren't already in your family, how's a guy supposed to find a nice wife that way?). It's just anyone who would self-identify as "gay" is OK to kill, but then again so are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Rape victims, etc. etc, etc.
You know I'm still willing to believe that most Muslims are law abiding people, but I have yet to see ONE thing, even one little, tiny, thing that makes me think their religion/culture is any good at all.
And if I feel this way after all the Religion of Peace pronouncements, including from our beloved W; all the meet a Muslim/hug a Muslim/love a Muslim propagandizing by the media (special mention to the Jersey (City) Journal and the (Newark) Star-Ledger) well, I just wonder if there is any there there.
I also think about AIDS they'd be far better off sticking with Rock Hudson as a poster boy, for oh so many reasons!
No but I remember that prick rolling up his sleeve and giving blood right after the 9/11 attacks!
Thats no kidding.
I thought the same thing. That clip also shows arafat with RUBBER GLOVES ON! Why would someone sick wear RUBBER GLOVES? Because he has two people that were holding his hands, and they did not want to touch arafat. This is when arafat tried to kiss the man's hand that was seated to his right, and that man yanked his hand away before arafat laid the kiss of death on him!
LLS
rolling up his sleeve and giving blood right after the 9/11 attacks!I forgot about it until you mentioned it but you are right!
Not only a murdering terrorist, but also a ...
(I can't even think of a descriptive word...)
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't directly criticizing Magic for being on roids. There is an extremely high corolation between muscle mass and health for Aids victums. However, for the roid treatment to work you had to have had very brave Doctors willing to write the scripts and to monitor the blood chemistry.
They say their going to bury Arafat upside down so his followers can stop in for a cold one.
We should start a rumor that AIDS is now airborne. All those corrupt Pali officials will run to Paris for treatment!
Probably have to anyway, come to think of it (though even thinking of it is really, really disgusting).
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