Posted on 11/11/2004 9:26:54 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat died early Thursday morning after his brain exploded in a Paris hospital.
The Nobel Prize winning serial killer's death was announced by Palestinian officials and the Percy Medical Hospital outside Paris, where Arafat arrived for treatment of a mysterious illness, reputed to be AIDS, nearly two weeks ago. The hospital said the 75-year-old mass murderer died in the early morning hours.
Arafat had been in a coma for several days. His brain exploded on Tuesday, prompting several news reports that the crazed killer was already dead. The brain explosion is technically known as a cerebral hemorrhage.
Arafat, who has killed more Jews than any man since Adolf Hitler, was flown to Paris by the French government for medical treatment. Under French care, his condition rapidly deteriorated, and he went into a coma over a week ago.
His condition launched a flurry of contradictory news reports that he was dead, or brain dead, long before his demise was announced. It also unleashed a clash between his wife Suha and Palestinian officials.
Arafat's carcass will be flown to Cairo for a memorial ceremony and, after that, to the West Bank city of Ramallah, for burial. The arrangements were finalized after Israeli authorities gave the green light for his Ramallah burial.
Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt on August 24, 1929, under the name Mohammed al-Hussein. He and several cronies formed the terrorist group Fatah during the 1950s. Fatah began launching guerrilla raids and terrorist attacks into Israel, and joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), founded in East Jerusalem under Egyptian patronage in 1964 for the express purpose of eradicating the Jewish state.
After Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967, Arafat led a coup against PLO founding chairman Ahmed Shukiry in 1968. Arafat adopted an authoritarian style of one-man rule and relocated his base to Jordan, from where the PLO and its various factions carried out a series of terrorist attacks, including hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
Jordan's King Hussein ordered his troops to drive the PLO out in the bloody 1971 confrontation known as Black September. Arafat and the PLO then made their home in Lebanon, again defiantly setting up a state-within-a-state and continuing terror attacks against Israel, including the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
In 1974, Arafat was invited to address the United Nations, which granted observer status to the PLO. Arafat also won pan-Arab recognition of the PLO as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people.
In 1975, the PLO presence in Lebanon plunged the nation into a protracted civil war. In June 1982 Israel sent troops to drive the PLO out of Lebanon. Trapped like a rat in the Lebanese capitol of Beirut, Arafat was escorted out and allowed to continue his terrorist attacks from the Arab North African country Tunisia.
Palestinians inside the disputed territories launched an uprising, or "intifada," against Israeli rule in late 1987. Arafat tried to take control of the intifada, but in 1990, he publicly supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
After the US-led coalition forced Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait, Arafat was left out of the historic Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, with Palestinian representatives from the territories attending as part of the Jordanian delegation.
Arafat directed the Palestinian delegates to stall progress in the talks, while sending envoys to Norway for secret, direct negotiations with Israel’s Labor party. This resulted the Oslo agreement of 1993, a seven-year peace treaty in which Israel accepted the PLO as a negotiating partner in exchange for Arafat once again renouncing terror.
In 1994, Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. As part of the Oslo peace accords, he was allowed entry into Gaza and was elected chairman of the new Palestinian Authority in 1996. Rabin was assassinated in 1995, to be replaced as Prime Minister by Peres, then Benjamin Netanyahu, then Ehud Barak.
As the seven-year peace process drew to a close in the year 2000, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton invited Arafat, Barak, and Peres to Camp David outside Washington, to begin final status negotiations. But Arafat rejected a deal that would have given the Palestinians an independent state with its capitol in East Jerusalem. The agreement, proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, would have given the Palestinians 98 percent of the disputed territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Arafat subsequently initiated a wave of terrorism that has resulted in the murders of 1,032 people in the ensuing 4 years.
During most of the Palestinian uprising, Israeli forces confined Arafat to his Ramallah headquarters, while U.S. president George Bush refused to meet or speak with the terrorist leader. Israeli voters kicked Barak out in 2001, electing Ariel Sharon instead. In 2002, Bush called on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders "not compromised by terror."
He's crispy by now, no doubt.
Arafat will now have all eternity to ponder his hateful, twisted deeds while on the earth.
You know, I wonder.....
Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat died early Thursday morning after his brain exploded in a Paris hospital
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Shoulda had the duct tape.
LOL
Wouldn't you know his fellow Nobel prize winner Carter would miss his terrorist buddy and wish to attend the ceremony, BARF.
That's why they wear those tablecloths on their heads.
I believe he did die last Tuesday. They kept him on life support until they could get the financial and leadership in place. I'm very suspicious that they say he 'just died' last night. I really believe they kept him looking alive by being on a breathing machine. They wanted to get their 'ducks in a row.'
This is good news. araRATfink is DEAD. YYYeeeesssss!!! He's got to now appear his maker and his victims and give an accounting.
FROM POWERLINE
http://powerlineblog.com/
Arafat created Black September as an offshoot of his Fatah organization. He presided over the operation resulting in the massacre of the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich by Black September in 1972. The following year Arafat became the first Arab terrorist to target Americans...
He personally ordered the assassination of American Ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel, Jr. and charge d'affaires Curtis Moore in Khartoum on March 2, 1973. Arafat himself presided over the Khartoum operation and ordered the assassination of Noel and Moore by short wave radio from PLO headquarters in Beirut. Moore and Noel were only the first of many Americans murdered by Arafat's terrorist thugs...
In a bizarre footnote to his assassination of American officials, Arafat became the foreign leader most frequently hosted by President Bill Clinton during his two terms in office. The many cold-blooded murders for which Arafat was responsible in the course of his life were politely passed over in silence as they remained entirely unavenged...
In November 1974, while in the middle of his murder spree, Arafat was invited to address the United Nations. He came accompanied to New York by three henchmen who had assisted or participated in the operation to assassinate Noel and Moore. He gave his speech at the General Assembly podium with a pistol and holster strapped to his hip....
Yep. Dead for days, they pullad a "Weekend at Arafat's" on him. The great thing, other than that sooner or later the AIDS thing will come out, is that since the Muslim "religion" demands quick bureal after death, even by the tennants of a hopelessly corrupt faux-religion, he's in Hell.
Yasser Arafat, excellence in Hell since November 10th, 2004.
Arafat's carcass will be flown to Cairo for a memorial ceremony
LMAO. Well put.
"Weekend at Arafats!" LOL! That's a good one.
The media won't come right out and say that he had Aids. He looks like he might have. Anyway, he gave me the creeps. And he was always smiling.
My mother-in-law said she could almost 'smell him through the TV.' LOL! Yikes!
Right now, the propaganda is all that Arafat was oh so good. When the whole world figures out that he died from AIDS/HIV and the Arab community absorbs that reality, the shame emanating from that will stink worse and worse. Afafat's death from AIDS will bring him down from the mythic figure he is now in the Arab world.
See this story and articles posted within the thread for more info. The Old Media won't let us know, but the New Media have it well documented. "Rare, unknown blood disorder" my foot. He died of AIDS ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1272876/posts
Suspicions grow that Arafat is dying of AIDS
He did die of AIDS.
He clearly had AIDS. "Rare blood disorder" - my aching side!
It is well documented that he did the behavior that spreads AIDS. Whether sketchy or not, it is ridiculous to state that he died from something that was not common to AIDS.
They are hiding it simply because he would "lose face" if it were certain knowledge.
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That's a hoot! Carcass. LOL!
Somewhere down below.....he is playing imaginary checkers with Josef Stalin. The winner meets Pol Pot in the next round.
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