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Yasser Arafat to be Exhumed Tuesday, Reopening the Mystery of his Death
The Globe and Mail ^
| Saturday, Nov. 24 2012
Posted on 11/24/2012 11:47:47 AM PST by nickcarraway
Yasser Arafats death always has been shrouded in mystery.
Now his remains and entire tomb are shrouded in tarps as the Palestinian Authority has given permission for his body to be exhumed Tuesday from its burial place below a memorial in the muqata, the Palestinian presidential headquarters. After a lengthy legal and diplomatic process, Mr. Arafats French widow, Suha Arafat, has won a court order, and received French support for an examination of her husbands body to determine if the iconic figure had been poisoned, as long has been rumored.
The leader of the Fatah resistance movement, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and first president of the Palestinian Authority, died in Paris in 2004. He was 75 and had been moved to the French capital from this Palestinian city, suffering from some unknown illness.
The expansive white marble site, a popular spot for tourists and a required stop for foreign dignitaries, looks today more like a construction site , with gravel and dirt piled outside the walls as the plastic tarps flap in the chilly wind.
Port Said Road, which runs along the southern side of the compound and provides pedestrian access to the grave, has been closed to traffic and guards are suspicious of a journalist making notes and interviewing passersby.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arafat
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To: nickcarraway
What mystery? It was queer induced AIDes.. he should have stopped at screwing goats :p
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:28:50 PM PST
by
Bikkuri
(Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
To: Riley
Theyll find whatever they want to find- probably whatever is calculated to whip up the biggest hate-Israel frenzy possible.
+1 There's another shoe to drop on this one, and when did the truth ever matter to these savages? It's all about attacking Israel.
To: nickcarraway
Bet he smells better now than when he was alive.
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:47:51 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: nickcarraway
He may look better now than when alive...
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:53:00 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Like Go-daffy)
To: Bikkuri
I heard that he died as a result of a car accident. He was rear ended.
To: nickcarraway
They want to check for polonium 210. PO 210 has a half life of 138 days. Good luck with that.
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:56:23 PM PST
by
Focault's Pendulum
(Romney has run a business, an Olympics, and a state. Obama has never run anything but his mouth.)
To: nickcarraway
Bush’s fault. Darn!
He probably had one too many twinkies and ho-ho’s.
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posted on
11/24/2012 1:04:18 PM PST
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
To: nickcarraway
Let’s all hope that this one was Bush’s Fault!
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posted on
11/24/2012 1:15:06 PM PST
by
Noob1999
(Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
To: nickcarraway
Why are the so-called palestineans involved? Ararat was Egyptian.
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posted on
11/24/2012 1:18:47 PM PST
by
meatloaf
(Support Senate S 1863 & House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
To: nickcarraway
The test results will be whatever they want them to be, this is all smoke and mirrors.
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posted on
11/24/2012 1:20:31 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment,a Matter of Fact,Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: meatloaf
So are many of the so-called “palestinians,” especially in that terrorist-riddled Gaza, (and the sooner they get home the better)
To: nickcarraway
Maybe they’re looking to kill him again.
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posted on
11/24/2012 2:17:30 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/24/2012 2:59:31 PM PST
by
jaz.357
(Welcome to hell. Here's your accordion.)
To: nickcarraway
"Stick a fork in him."
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posted on
11/24/2012 3:14:03 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/24/2012 3:25:26 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Labor unions are the Communist Party of the USA.)
To: nickcarraway
If my memory serves me correctly, didn’t the Muslim masses pass his coffin, then his body overhead from person to person in gigantic mob scene for several hours before the corpse could even be taken to the cemetery?
Anything they might want to discover in the body is probably already severely tainted and rotted.
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posted on
11/24/2012 3:30:02 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: nickcarraway
He died of AIDS, triggered by botulism.
You get botulism from bad meat in an old can.
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posted on
11/24/2012 4:27:27 PM PST
by
Bon mots
(Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
To: nickcarraway
They don’t exhume cesspools, they pump them out!
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posted on
11/24/2012 5:40:34 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
To: Gaffer
“Where does the line to piss on his bones form?”
Or will they confirm that he was composed primarily of Pig Excrement!
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/24/2012 8:32:09 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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