[TomGuy]

Crowd apparently overran barriers and filtered into the plaza area when the helicopter is supposed to land.

Area was supposed to stay open so dignitaries could come in, but the crowd has made it impossible for the dignitaries to come into the plaza.

News-readers are saying the Pali/Israeli officials are apprehensive that the crowd might try to take the coffin and carry it to Jerusalem for burial rather than to Arafat's compound where a grave has been prepared.

Madeline Albright just showed up on CNN. [It's too early in the morning to have to see or listen to her.] But I digress.....

Pali crowd are yelling and calling Arafat a martyr [even though he died in a hospital].

Copter coming into view now.

[NonValueAdded]

Madeline Albright just showed up on CNN.

Fits right into that "ugly" theme, though.

[longtermmemmory]

when will the media learn, Alright is a ratings killer.

She is incompetent.
She is responsible for the messes in yougoslavia and N.Korea(along with carter there).
She is just plain ignorant and annoying.
She has demonstrated she was totally ineffective.

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