After he slips into his jammies, we could ask him about his duties there.
Posted on 11/06/2004 10:40:52 AM PST by white trash redneck
Former White House speechwriter David Frum has joined the growing chorus of pundits, medical experts, and intelligence operatives who claim Yasser Arafat is likely suffering from AIDS.
Frum, a key figure in Republican politics and the man who coined the terms "axis of evil," writes in National Review Online that Arafat's undisclosed illness is well-known, but has been kept under wraps by the mainstream media.
"Speaking of media bias, here's a question you won't hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?" asks Frum, who also writes for the National Post.
"We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight -- possibly as much as one-third of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?"
Intelligence on "the tiger" romping with bodyguards Frum pointed to KGB evidence linking Arafat to homosexual activities between the 1960s and 1980s. He cites a 1987 book by Lt.-Gen. Ion Pacepa, the deputy chief of Romania's intelligence service under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. In his memoirs Red Horizons, Lt.-Gen. Pacepa claims Mr. Arafat's extensive KGB file revealed him as a voracious and profligate homosexual. He said Romanian agents had taped Mr. Arafat's sex sessions with his bodyguards in Bucharest in 1978.
In "Red Horizons," Pacepa relates a conversation with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization operations in deception and influence designed to fool the West into granting the organization recognition.
"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena."
Munteaunu continued: "I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood and filth all together in one man." Munteaunu, wrote Pacepa, spent months pulling together secret reports from Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian intelligence agencies as well as Romanian files.
"I used to think I knew just about everything there was to know about Rahman al-Qudwa," Arafat's real name, "about the construction engineer who made a fortune in Kuwait, about the passionate collector of racing cars, about Abu Amman," Arafat's nom de guerre, "and about my friend Yasser, with all his hysterics," explained Munteaunu, handing Pacepa his final report on the PLO leader. "But I've got to admit that I didn't really know anything about him."
Pacepa wrote: "The report was indeed an incredible account of fanaticism, of devotion to his cause, of tangled oriental political maneuvers, of lies, of embezzled PLO funds deposited in Swiss banks, and of homosexual relationships, beginning with his teacher when he was a teen-ager and ending with his current bodyguards. After reading the report, I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever I had been kissed by Arafat, or even just shaken his hand."
"If true, Arafat would have a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world," writes Frum, suggesting that Arafat was airlifted to France for medical treatment because he "could trust the French to protect his intimate secret."
Earlier, John Loftus told John Batchelor on ABC radio on October 26 that Arafat is dying from AIDS. Loftus said the CIA has known this about Arafat for quite awhile and that as a result the US has encouraged Sharon not to take Arafat out because the US has known Arafat was about done. It was deemed better to have Arafat discredited as a homosexual.
Although homosexuality is rife in the Arab world, it is at least officially consider a sin and a crime, and regarded--especially in fundamentalist circles--as a mark of great shame and depravity.
The medical evidence adds up Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath Monday said that all types of cancer had been ruled out, and the latest news is that French doctors have ruled out poisoning.
Medical observers note that a low blood platelet count is a sign of a weakened immune system, and indeed last week there were reports of a complete collapse of Arafat's immune system. Other than the ruled-out cancer, the low count could be attributed to bleeding ulcers, colitis, liver disease, lupus, or HIV. It is believed that ulcers and colitis have already been ruled out.
Arafat has lost a considerable amount of body weight. Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, is known to have some of France's best HIV/AIDS doctors. Other medical experts note that Arafat's activities in recent weeks and months suggest the dementia that accompanies late-stage AIDS.
Medical authorities not connected directly to his case are suggesting that he may have HIV/AIDS. One doctor reported to an Israel Insider source that his suspicions have been growing for more than a year.
"I began to see tell tale signs of kaposis sarcoma. His Parkinsonian tremor was more than just a Parkinsonian tremor and he was also showing signs of weakness. The rumor about homosexuality/bisexuality has been around for decades. So I put two and two together when they started talking about his health over a year ago. The talk of a mysterious illness in this day and age should be a tip-off. He has some of the best physicians in the world attending to him. He can be diagnosed clinically, without perfoming any tests. All the doctors surrounding him know what he has. All this cloak and dagger about tests is a ruse. They understand the implications of divulging that he has HIV. If I were Suha I would be getting a little concerned."
If Arafat has AIDS, that would also explain Suha's reticence to allow the release of significant information about Arafat's condition, and the almost ludicrously tight-lipped reports of the French hospital spokesman, and the refusal of anyone connected with Arafat to hold a press conference in recent days.
After he slips into his jammies, we could ask him about his duties there.
During the last few days, when the news channels kept showing the footage of Yassir-thats-my-baby being airlifted as the closeups revealed just how bad his skin looked, I came to the exact same conclusion.
Yes, I noticed that too ;-). He was surrounded by his Pali synchophants.
Yes, and secrecy.... although the information eventually leaked out.
Word would leak out if Yassir were known to be taking such drugs.
I hope Arafat isn't still dying.
most interesting.
...and you just might be right. THAT might have been the disinformation.
Did you see this one?
Of course, who will be brave enough to tell the truth; and live to tell about it?
Why did Hoover keep the dirt about the Kennedy's under wraps? Knowledge is capital, give it away and you lose the ability to control its use.
So Arafat is queer---hmmm...that explains his popularity in San Francisco.
I hope this SOB is in a lot of pain.
There is a long tradition of pederasty/homosexuality in Islam.
Right. Homosexual activity is rampant amongst Muslims, but as long as a man is at least willing to marry a woman and sire children, few care if he keeps a whole harem of boys. In other words, homosexual activity is acceptable as a side dish, but not the main course.
It was scrambled eggs, and he posted the story on his own website to beat them to the punch. He never comment one way or another, leaving it up to the reader to decide. I always thought it was strange, but he is such a self-promoter anyway.
In practice, Muslim men can have their fun, and do. It's Muslim women who are kept on a tight leash. That's what the fundamentalists fear, arguably more than anything else -- uppity women. Women who insist on walking around in public bareheaded, women who insist on finishing high school, women who refuse to let themselves be beaten.
There is no telling what he is dying of, but at the age of 74, it seems a little premature death, especially with his having the best medical treatment in the world, all of his life.
I initially thought it was advance syphillis(sp), what with all of the goat humping he has likely been involved in. But, I guess AIDS/HIV is more likely.
Yes, I did. As a chaplain who once served in Bahrain, I can assure you that the Saudis had their men who had sex with men. We had a sailor accosted by them one night after they got him drunk.
Old Yassir would've come from out Gomorrah way, wouldn't he?
In any case, it makes sense. If it isn't poison, isn't a describable sickness, there's intel reports of an affinity for men, and he's presenting with dementia,etc., then why not conclude this.
It always amazed me that the Sodom fops were brutal, demanding, and aggressive. But so were the pink swastika corps in Nazi Germany. And Yassir is a murdering terrorist.
(with a peace prize.....go figure???)
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but I'd guess that some of the world's best virologists are employed by the US Army at Ft. Detrick, Md.
Not for AIDS research, but for responding to biological attacks. So it wouldn't suprise me.
Frankly, something else that doesn't suprise me is the fact that it's France hosting this terrorist leader and murderer. Giving him aid and comfort. Birds of a feather...
Mark
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