[d4now]

President Yasser Arafat was directly elected in a free and fair election," Cabinet minister and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told CNN.

This was in 1996 - right?

[monkeyshine]

1993 I think. A sham. His only opposition was a 72 year old woman.

[KC_Conspirator]

Yes that was sme years ago. There was supposed to be another election, but Arafat cancelled them because he is a 2 bit terrorost dictator.