Posted on 01/04/2006 12:55:39 PM PST by pitbully
JERUSALEM (AP) -
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to a hospital late Wednesday after feeling ill, his office said.
Israeli media reported that he apparently suffered a second stroke or possibly a heart ailment. The announcement said Sharon, 77, was taken to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, where he was scheduled to undergo a procedure Thursday to close a hole in his heart that contributed to his Dec. 18 stroke.
Sharon's office said his personal physician was with him, and the Israeli leader was fully conscious. Sharon was taken to the same hospital Dec. 18.
Channel 10 News quoted Sharon's spokesman Wednesday as saying the prime minister's symptoms were not severe, and he was being taken by ambulance from his ranch in the southern Negev to the Jerusalem hospital.
Another hospital, Soroka in Beersheba, is much closer to the ranch, and Israeli media were concluding that his condition was not serious. Channel 10 said the heart procedure might be advanced.
Doctors said last month that Sharon would not suffer long-term effects from the stroke, but they discovered a birth defect in his heart that apparently contributed to the stroke. The hole measures about one-eighth of an inch.
Using a catheter inserted through a blood vessel in Sharon's groin, a team of cardiologists will put an umbrella-like device over the hole to seal it. A small camera inserted through Sharon's throat will guide the doctors.
Sharon will be under general anesthesia, and Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will take over during the procedure, Sharon's office said.
This will start a big Pali Party.
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We just walked in the door a few minutes ago and I heard this; thanks for posting it.
No Prob, He is a very important person in the middle east.
Pali will pay if they do anything against Israel.
Will the jews claim he was poisoned like all the palestinians who claimed Arafat's death was because he was poisoned by the jews?
Where is the UN and French outrage?
I pray Arik will be able to enjoy a nice retirement. And I don't mean that politically, I just don't want him, after all he's given of himself, to die while still in office/working.
Yes...Sharon could be having problems with his medications. That plus his age and all the jelly donuts' poundage packed onto his aging torso. Too soon to write him off but the guy's not long for this world. Prayers up.
Hopefully another homemade hamas bomb will go off in the middle of a palestinian crowd again.
That was a great moment in history.
The "targeted killings" seem to be the only thing that works against these monsters. Hey Schlemielberg... Munich happens every week to this day. It's just done with Apaches and Sidewinders now.
I have to admit, if part of Sharon's plan was to let the palesites show how ready they are for a country, then it is working beautifully. Even the talking heads on the Old Media (OM) are having to admit Gaza is a lawless anarchy.
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