CLAMART, France (AP) — Yasser Arafat’s wife lashed out at his top lieutenants Monday, accusing them of traveling to Paris with plans to “bury” him “alive.”
In a screaming telephone call from Arafat’s hospital beside, Suha Arafat told pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television that she was issuing “an appeal to the Palestinian people.” She accused his top lieutenants — who are traveling to Paris to be with Arafat later Monday — of conspiring to usurp the role her husband has held for four decades as Palestinian leader.
“Let it be known to the honest Palestinian people that a bunch of those who to take over are coming to Paris tomorrow,” she screamed in Arabic over the telephone.
“You have to realize the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive,” she continued, using his nom de guerre. He is all right and he is going home. God is great.”
A producer from Al-Jazeera said they were confident it was Suha Arafat and that she had called their Ramallah office from Arafat’s bedside at a French military hospital.
Why do I keep thinking of "Weekend at Bernie's" whenever I see these Arafat threads?
I understand he has liver failure. A symptom of AIDS, I believe. A fitting end for the boy-buggering monster. Suha is hanging in there for the six billion dollars. The Palis think it is theirs.....IMHO, neither should have it. She would spend it on personal maintenance, the Palis would spend it on bomb belts.
Come to think of it, if Suha got it, it would probably save lives.