"Okay....hold on everybody! I am here to tell you that Yasir Arafat is not
dead....!" ....Now...I will be pleased to take a few questions..."
Posted on 11/09/2004 10:18:45 AM PST by SoCalJB
(Note: I just heard at the 10 a.m. PST KFI News AM 640 broadcast that Palestinian officials say that Yassir Arafat 'will die tonight'.)
Palestinian officials said life sustaining artificial respiratory machines keeping Yasser Arafat alive will be switched off "when the time comes." Various media reports indicate that time could be within hours.
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United Press International
Palestinian officials said life sustaining artificial respiratory machines keeping Yasser Arafat alive will be switched off "when the time comes." Various media reports indicate that time could be within hours.
Amman's daily al-Ghad Tuesday quoted the unidentified officials as saying the decision to remove the respirator will be taken by members of a high-ranking official Palestinian team, who arrived in Paris Monday.
"There is no more hope that he will ever return to life," the sources said of Arafat who has been in coma for four days.
Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, Mahmoud Abbas, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian Legislative Council chief Rawhi Ftouh and Selim Zaanoun, head of the Palestinian National Council or parliament-in-exile, will make the decision after consulting with French officials, the sources said.
They said the Palestinian leadership believes keeping Arafat alive artificially is inhumane.
In Paris, the chief medical doctor at Percy military hospital said Arafat's condition further deteriorated overnight and he has entered a deeper stage of coma.
Arafat's wife, Suha, has reportedly refused to switch off the life-sustaining machines and is controlling all press releases and reports on her husband's health, taking advantage of a French law that grants her that right.
Mrs. Arafat sharply criticized her husband's top aides on Monday accusing them of seeking to bury him alive.
He just won't die!
MV
I guess they gave up trying to get the Swiss Bank Account numbers out of him before he died.
Where's the money? Suha did okay for herself,didn't she?
"Time... to go... to sleep now... Dave..." :)
-Dan
I can just see a mob of Palestinian so-called leaders and Sufa in a colossal wrestling match next to Arafat's bedside, turning the life support systems on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off...
His life support to be switched off? 40 years too late, I'd say.
LOL!
They should auction off the right to pull the switch. A lot of people would pay good money to be the one to terminate ol' Yasser.
No can do with California's strict air quality regulations.
Die already!
I didn't think we were sending mone to the Palastinian Authority anymore...
And the problem with that is.....?
They must have finally figured out how to find his $billions$
Ding dong, Yasir's Dead!
Ding dong, he's really, really dead!
Let 'im die.
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