Report Reveals Arafat Suffers from Advanced Prostate Cancer and Cerebral Edema

DEBKAfile ^ | 25 June, 2002 | DebkaFile

[the_second_moon]

Ten days before President George W. Bush told the Palestinians to remove their leaders if they wanted a state (on June 24), an intelligence report landing on his desk informed him that Arafat had jumped the gun on the presidential statement. Instead of instituting democratic reforms, the Palestinian leader had overhauled and recharged his terror command structure in readiness for a savage terrorist offensive intended to reach also US targets in Israel and the Middle East.

Another of the report’s disclosures refers to the serious decline in Arafat’s health in recent months. He is said to suffer from prostate cancer requiring surgery, as well as cerebral edema from the blow he received some years ago when his plane made a forced landing. Aware that he needs hospital care, the Palestinian leader has not decided when or where to receive it. After the Bush speech, he dropped an earlier plan to get himself admitted to the American Mayo Clinic, fearing he would be banned from entering the US, even for medical treatment.

Arafat’s medical chart was assembled for the US intelligence report from the list of medicines Israel was asked to provide when his compound in Ramallah was under Israeli siege, and also from the taped conversations he had with his Jordanian physician, Dr. al-Kurd, during that month, when he came from Amman to examine him.

[AppyPappy]

Yeah and Castro has been on his deathbed for 20 years.

[Michael Barnes]

It obviously hasn't advanced enough...

[aardvark1]

Isn't "edema" a medical term for swelling? So does that mean that he has a terminal case of swelled head?

[Redcloak]

DEBKA, huh? Call me untrusting, but I'll wait until a more reliable news service confirms this.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Report Reveals Arafat Suffers from Advanced Prostate Cancer and Cerebral Edema

Sounds like a sympathy ploy. Picking on the weak, and all that. The last gasp of a desperate man? One can only hope.

[jz638]

I feel sorry for the cancer.

[JAWs]

So, which end is more trouble? Head or rump?

[MJY1288]

My guess is he will expire from lead poisoning, long before his prostate gets him

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

He also has a bad case of ugly stick

that's why he and bubba got along so well!

[colorado tanker]

Dang, I was getting all excited about this until I saw it was from DEBKA. I guess it's no secret, however, that they got the Arafathead part right.

[parsifal]

I normally don't wish for people to die, but the sooner this piece of cr*p enters the ground, the better. Ain't nothing but a hateful murderer, IMHO. parsy.

[Lower55]

I wonder what acelerated the prostate cancer.

Was it the constant insertion of Sharon's foot? or Was it Clinton's lips?

[luvbach1]

edema is swelling caused by collection of fluid

[Cachelot]

Report Reveals Arafat Suffers from Advanced Prostate Cancer and Cerebral Edema

Suffers? SUFFERS??

Not enough.

[livius]

LOL! Yes, Arafat probably got more than one hit with the ugly stick. He's probably the ugliest man in the world. As for Clinton, I agree - close behind. I never figured out how anybody could find that bulbous-nosed watery-eyed face attractive, to say nothing of the weird color of his skin (sort of a damp-looking grey-pink). They say power attracts, and it had to be power, because it sure wasn't anything else!

[verity]

cerebral edema

It must be related to that table cloth he wears on his head!

[JAWs]

So he's got a swelled head?

Seriously, it's also called dropsy.

[OldFriend]

Let's have a pity party.....NOT!!!

[alaskanfan]

He also suffers from diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.