Posted on 11/11/2004 3:54:28 PM PST by Nice50BMG
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
While Yasser Arafat is being remembered by many as the father of modern terrorism, the United Nations headquarters in New York City is honoring the Palestinian leader by lowering its flag to half-mast.
Yasser Arafat and Kofi Annan |
"Deeply moved" by news of his death, U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan gave Arafat a "special tribute" before the General Assembly this afternoon after conveying condolences to his wife and daughter.
"By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision," Annan said in a statement delivered by a spokesman.
"It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled."
In a briefing in New York, spokesman Fred Eckhard said the secretary-general has asked Terje Roed-Larsen, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and personal representative to the Palestinian Authority, to represent him at President Arafat's funeral in Cairo.
Eckhard said Annan was not going to the funeral because it was impossible for him to make the travel arrangements on such short notice.
The U.N. chief, he noted, travels commercially and to get to Cairo by tomorrow probably would have required a private plane.
Annan was not sending any kind of message by not attending, Eckhard asserted.
He noted that the General Assembly, in a series of rulings over the years, had accorded Arafat a status equivalent to a head of state.
Annan decided Arafat should be accorded the same status in death as he obtained during his life, and the General Assembly president agreed, the spokesman said.
The affection and honor they bestow upon a bloody murderer like Arafat says all anybody needs to know about it.
Does anybody know if the DU is broken up about Arafat as well?
I wonder if any enterprising journalist will ferret out his cause of death? His symptoms remind me of those of syphilis or AIDS.
Good riddance to a terrorist, thief, and murderer.
Yeah, the Arafat coverage has been pissing me off. It's Veteran's Day and there's big developments in Iraq, but every time I turn to the news they're giving a dead scumbag POS terrorist top-billing.
IMHO....I think that most of the MSM will treat this as an event on the level of Reagan's funeral.
The talking heads (minus a couple at FNC) will salivate over the crusty old Egyptian terrorist like he was some noble freedom fighter.
Then it should stay at half-mast.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate for a white flag to be flown at half mast or am I crazy?
The coverage of the POS today was and is disgraceful. Not to mention the Peterson trial.
A great big THANK YOU to all our veterans.
I am about sick of the media gushing over this man. He was a thug and a terrorist. Period. I don't usually speak ill of the dead, but I make an exception in this instance. Good riddance.
They still gush over Hanoi Kerry
I VOW to the 58,000 + names on
The Viet Nam Wall who never came home
"I will do everything I LEGALLY can
to expose Hanoi Kerry once and for all."
MSM still refuses to tell the real story about Hanoi Kerry!
ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times
is part of THE cover up of the election.
Do you wonder why the Left whines about the election results?
They still think Hanoi Kerry is a "war hero"
They don't know what a traitor he is!
And I don't know about you but
I'm sick and tired of the Right media saying
"what an honorable man Senator Kerry is"
Why isn't the Right all over Hanoi Kerry
to be impeached from the US Senate?
"In a bombshell development that could have turned President Bush's victory into a landslide
had it come out before the election, John Kerry wrote in his Vietnam war diary that
he met with "terrorists" in Paris - a revelation that "flabbergasted" his running mate John Edwards."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/7/101350.shtml
And still the MSM,
ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times
hide the truth from America.
And still 99 US Senators refuse to impeach this traitor.
Timeline of John Kerry
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html
Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Kerry and VVAW
http://www.nysun.com/article/3756
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Stolen Honor nails Kerry and the VVAW
and how they lied at Winter Soldier.
And how Kerry lied to the US Senate in 1971
And how Kerry and his pack of liars caused our POW's to suffer!
Kerry and the DNC cannot stop
EVERYONE on the internet from seeing this!
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Just when you think the bloodstained thieves at the UN can't go any lower, they prove you wrong again.
"Just when you think the bloodstained thieves at the UN can't go any lower, they prove you wrong again."
Ditto for
ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times
SSaddam was a corrupt man with an evil cause, Arafat was a corrupt
,am with a cause that had some merit to it---Palestinian statehood (so says our President and I am a Bushbacker)..enough to justify a certain amount of deference to the cause if not to the man himself.
It's would have been a lot easier to make that mistake under Kerry.
I saw that also. Disgusting. MSM practically dedicates the whole day to The Master Terrorist Arafat. Well, to hell with them......I celebrated the day with other vets here.
It would probably be more correctly stated as: half graft in the UN's case, doncha think?
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