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Arafat will reject wife's statement: official
Yep. Soon as he's up and around...
Tayeb Abdel Rahim, head of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office, said Monday the ailing president will reject his wife's statement if he hears what she claimed.
Perhaps, if we scream it at him really, really, really loud, he may hear it.
In an interview with pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV, Suha Arafat screamed that the Palestinian leaders who planned to visit Arafat in Paris wanted to bury the leader "alive" and inherit his power. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Abbas, No. 2 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had been scheduled to fly to Paris Monday but cancelled the visit after Suha's accusation.
Have you seen her nails? She could claw our eyes out.
Rahim said at a press conference that "the leaders are not Arafat's successors, but his companions."
Hope they've been tested...
"What Suha has announced does not represent the Palestinian people or the leadership," he said. "Arafat is not the private property of Suha but that of the entire Palestinian nation."
YOU CAN HAVE HIM! I JUST WANT MY MONEY! WAKE UP YOU BASTARD!!!
The 75-year-old veteran leader was transferred to the Percy Military Hospital outside Paris on Oct. 29 after his health condition deteriorated sharply. Conflicting reports emerged about Arafat's real condition, with some saying Arafat is brain-dead and on life support machines, while others saying Arafat remaining in a critical but stable condition. Suha is one of only a handful of people who have been authorized to see the Palestinian leader in the last 10 days.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Arafat, but if you keep stepping on his air hose you'll never get those numbers you want.

At first I was thinking, "Cheeze! When are they gonna admit that he's dead and get on with the planting?" Now I'm enjoying the show. Popcorn consumption is way up: decaying corpse on "life" support; the "grieving" greed-head widow; the hard boyz jockeying for power while the guys who are ostensibly in charge are afraid to make a move, for fear of Fearless Leader™ actually waking up; the charges he was poisoned or that he had AIDS or both... When the WoT's all over and I write the authoritative bad novel of the war, this is going to be my favorite chapter. All that's missing -- so far, anyway -- is Inspector Camembert and Legume, to call all the Paleostinians into the parlor and reveal that Yasser didn't die of natural causes, he was murdered, and the real killer is...?

Posted by: tu3031 2004-11-08
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