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.
hahahaaaa! It's a slow death, that ugly is .....
You want me to be gentle with you, after a line like that?
Would you, could you, be gentle with me?
I agree with you about the MSM being accountable for their words. If, there is not a way to do it, then we should vote into law a way to make them accountable.
They can use Arafat's headdress to make his square for the AIDS quilt.
I agree. I don't think rights come without responsibilities. You have the right to drive a car but if don't do so responsibly that right can be taken away from you. It should be the same with free speech. You have the right present a news segment or print a newspaper article but that right should be taken away if it can be proven that you misrepresented facts intentionally.
We just went through a horrible election cycle where the majority of the media blatantly shilled for on candidate and presented it as "news." The good news they did such a poor job of appearing unbiased many people's eyes were opened to the situation.
Hopefully people don't forget the lessons that we've learned. Fox's numbers keep trending up and more people are turning to the Internet to verify news stories for themselves.
Wow that dows look like karposi's sarcoma on his face by his mouth. How old is that picture?
I think it's pretty recent. It's on Ha'aretz and look how white his hands are. The word on the street in Paris is that he is dead. I don't know why we are playing along with this charade.
I just saw a picture of him and the wife on my roadrunner news. When I maximized the pic, you can clearly see two lesions on his face in that same spot as the picture you posted.
They are holding hands, and his hands look like gloves. You can clearly see the wife's fingernails, and there are no nails on him.
I would post the pic, but I don't know how to copy it.
I am convinced he has AIDS. If he had anything else they would say what it is and downplay it as being treatable - even some type of cancer. Everyone knows the last stages of AIDS is not treatable.
If Arafat has AIDS and has practiced homosexuality secretly for years, it should be made public. Clearly he didn't practice 'safe sex', whatever that is. The Arab culture/world treats homosexuals as pariahas, but maybe this would change if they knew that someone they supposedly love and look up to was a homosexual, himself, and indeed died of AIDs. Think of what Rock Hudson's final illness and death did for the disease in this country.
Homosexual sex is a very complicated issue in Arab culture. Apparently the Taliban used to rape boys. The rape of young boys is what creates the rage and shame in men when they grow up, which then strangely is taken out on women. I've read this is common practice.
Dan Rather should be sitting in prison now. CBS should be fined a couple of million, and put on probation for about 5 years.
I doubt that the propaganda in the old Soviet Union was any more blatant than the MSM has been this past year.
Free Speech doesn't mean you can yell fire in a theater, nor should it mean you can deceive the American people with lies, in order to elect your favorite Communist candidate.
When will this info be released? It would be important in discrediting Arafat as a hero with the violently anti-homosexual Jihadist who worship him.
If there are photos and tapes..... bring them on!
That picture is dated 6/11/04. I agree that the spot by his mouth (relatively new, compared to older pictures) looks like Kaposi Sarcoma.
I saw that. He jerked his hand away from Arafat so violently that he almost pulled the weak old man out of his chair. He threw him off balance and I thought, "OMG, what a show of disrespect." But your theory is very interesting.
this is a good article to keep in mind.
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Funneeeeeee!!!
Hey!!! Include a quote when you write something like that. I just popped up on it, and since the thread is about Yasser...
Plus with the rich guys grabbing up four wives and as many concubines as they can afford thus creating a mismatch of available women to available men....
mark
Has anyone informed his old "buddy" Saddam? That might loosen his tongue a bit.
You're assuming she actually had sex with him? Rash assumption I'd say.
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