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| arafats health worsens |
| 2004-10-27 |
| Yasser Arafat's health deteriorated Wednesday and a team of doctors went to his compound to examine the Palestinian leader, a Palestinian official said. The 75-year-old Arafat had been ill for two weeks, suffering from what Palestinian officials said was the flu. Israeli officials speculated he might have stomach cancer, but two of Arafat's doctors said Wednesday that a blood test, combined with a biopsy of tissue taken from his digestive tract, showed no evidence of cancer of the digestive tract. Late Wednesday, Arafat's condition worsened and doctors were sent to examine him, an official in Arafat's office said. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas were summoned to the compound to meet with Arafat, the official said. Other Palestinian officials were kept out of his room, the official said. |
| Posted by:muck4doo |
| #43 WCRedneck - it would be fitting if ArafRat were to suffer as much pain in his final days as he'd inflicted on Israel over the last three decades. One would have to consider it poetic justice. I have absolutely no sympathy for the 'fish', and will be greatly heartened by knowing he will spend eternity in the hotbox next to the ones reserved for Ted Kennedy and the Georgia peanut-brain. In fact, I believe that having arafart between the other two would be the epitome of hell for all three. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-10-27 11:05:40 PM |
| #42 I hope his last few days were filled with excrutiating pain. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-10-27 10:37:15 PM |
| #41 2b, Your posting on the "dark shadow cross the moon" when linked with the Muslim lunar calendar which dwelled inside Arafat is so fitting, as well as chilling. I wonder what this particular date in Islamic history means? Or the number of the current lunar month and how it relates to Arafat? |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-27 10:28:03 PM |
| #40 Shipman----artificial gill. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-27 10:22:58 PM |
| #39 Among Sabra's (native Israelis) & Arabs there were always many rumours about Yassir which many took as fact. He [was] a disgusting, creeping thing, which murdered all those in his way from his time spent in Jordan to Lebanon to Israel. Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of Romanian intelligence stated the following about Arafat; "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." Wrote Pacepa: "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." "We are not Afghanistan," said Arafat back in early August of 2002, in an interview published in Al Sharq al Awsat, a London Arabic daily. "We are a mighty people. Were they able to replace our hero Hajj Amin al-Husseini? There were a number of attempts to get rid of Hajj Amin, whom they considered an ally of the Nazis. But even so, he lived in Cairo, and participated in the 1948 war, and I was one of his troops." Arafat seldom tells the truth, but, in this case, his facts are correct. Hajj Amin al-Husseini was the grand mufti of Jerusalem leading up to World War II. He supported the Nazis. He met with Adolph Hitler. He was a strong proponent of the Nazi program for mass murder of the Jews. In fact, Arafat's hero became a German agent, and the British tried repeatedly to arrest him as a spy. Perhaps the mufti's "greatest achievement" was the recruitment of tens of thousands of Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania to the German SS. His Arab Legions later participated in the massacres of thousands of partisan Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. On March 1, 1944, Arafat's hero was in Berlin making a dramatic radio broadcast: "Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This saves your honor." The Nazi mufti visited numerous death camps and encouraged Hitler to extend the "Final Solution" to the Jews of North Africa and Palestine. In fact, his only condition for recruiting the Arab Legions in the Balkans was a promise from Hitler to wipe out the Jews of the Middle East after the war. In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the mufti as a war criminal for his role in the massacres. He escaped from French detention in 1946. He then traveled to Egypt where he lived until 1974. In 2004, Arafat goes to meet his 'hero' in Hell. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-27 10:22:08 PM |
| #38 Hmmm...I just noticed a dark shadow cross the moon - maybe the death cart is on it's way.....brrrr...it's soooo cold all of a sudden.......must be scary...entering the hereafter with so many dead ready and waiting to haunt your hereafter. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-27 10:19:33 PM |
| #37 Yeah. Yasser liked boys. I don't know why we or the Israelis don't use that more to tear him down. Not too late to humiliate him in death. I was not looking forward to the ululating in Ramallah when Kerry won. This'll tone down the party. |
| Posted by: JAB 2004-10-27 10:14:39 PM |
| #36 About 1975 Orianna Fallachi interviewed Arafat for Playboy. I wish I had kept that copy. In the introduction she notes Yassir's bodyguards. All blond East Germans. She insinuates it was a very gay scene there that walked into to interview Arafat. |
| Posted by: dennisw 2004-10-27 9:41:29 PM |
| #35 Is he on the artificial gill yet? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-27 9:24:53 PM |
| #34 Old Spook - Inshallah! |
| Posted by: better be anonymous on this one 2004-10-27 9:09:06 PM |
| #33 To be totally cynical: Arafat dying will bury ANY "October Surprise" crap Kerry and the press have queued up for this weekend. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-10-27 9:01:17 PM |
| #32 The PLO high command will try and delay Arafat's death for as long as the can. Israel has many eyes though. More important, soon after the death of the Mr. Arab terrorist is confirmed the Islamic terror gangs will begin to stake out turf and then the blood bath begins the question is in which direction will the jihadee death cultists extend their wrath, against one another or Israelis? PM Sharon will have to send in more troops to Gaza and wherever Jewish settlements are located in order to protect Israelis. Israeli internet radio is a top news source to monitor developments. The Near-East tension level is rising. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-27 8:47:37 PM |
| #31 Gallstone,eh ? Must be lodged in his throat. |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2004-10-27 8:44:00 PM |
| #30 lol ac! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-10-27 8:26:41 PM |
| #29 The Fish has died/will die in bed, but the Paleos will probably swarm some poor bastard's perfectly good un-rocketed car from force of habit. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-27 8:25:06 PM |
| #28 Al-Qatie Qouric the Perky-Burqa will have to get out that pseudo-Islamic mourning dress she wore on the Today Show the morning after Saddam was captured. I wonder if she'll cry on the air this time? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-27 8:05:50 PM |
| #27 John Loftus on the John Batchellor show has said the last couple of nights that Yasser likes the "boys" and that he has AIDS. The Israelis have been urged to not kill him because it would be far better if he died in disgrace. http://www.wmal.com/showdj.asp?DJID=9992 |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2004-10-27 7:38:52 PM |
| #26 goddamer! ima forget give em hat tip janeane garafolo blog. >:( |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-10-27 7:36:08 PM |
| #25 The bankbooks! The account numbers! Where are they! WHERE ARE THEY, YOU UGLY OLD FUCK!!! |
| Posted by: Suha Arafat 2004-10-27 6:44:28 PM |
| #24 Wonder what the ramafacations would be if he slipped into a coma for a year before croaking? Not even Suha would kiss him to break the spell. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-27 6:33:30 PM |
| #23 update AP "Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) collapsed Wednesday evening, was unconscious for about 10 minutes and remained in a "very difficult situation," Palestinian officials said. A team of Jordanian doctors was urgently summoned to treat the ailing Palestinian leader. " |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-10-27 6:17:01 PM |
| #22 Yeaaaa! Wonder what the ramafacations would be if he slipped into a coma for a year before croaking? |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-10-27 6:14:56 PM |
| #21 Damn that George Bush and this flu shot fiasco... Now Arafat may not be in DC on January 20 for Kerry's inauguration. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2004-10-27 6:07:50 PM |
| #20 Hey #17, that squares with Ion Mihai Pacepa's book Red Horizons, which stated that Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu would provide Arafat with young boys during his stays in the country. Pacepa was a high ranking Romanian secret police official who defected before the fall of Romania. |
| Posted by: gb506 2004-10-27 6:06:46 PM |
| #19 Jpost: "Yasser Arafat's wife Suha and daughter Zahwa will visit the Palestinian leader on Thursday. Shaul Mofaz has allowed Mrs. Arafat's entry into Ramallah, Israel Radio reported. " Reports on BBC that a high Pal official says Arafat is "very, very sick" Pal leadership assembling. I think this is it folks. If it were to happen the same time the BoSox win the series, ........ |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-10-27 6:03:38 PM |
| #18 Bomb-a-rama : No. This is the health of the leader of the merry men! Like the old USSR: Day 1)The leader has a "slight head cold". Day 2)Regular programming is interupted for a taped playing of Chopin's funeral march. Day 3)Day long state funeral. Day 4)The new leader is seen smiling atop Lenin's tomb with the new pecking order on either side. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-10-27 6:00:30 PM |
| #17 The rumor is that Arafish has the big A -- AIDS. He swings both ways and is currently shacking up with his long-time bodyguard. That's why he only uses foreign doctors. And yes, I'm serious. Please join me in wishing him Hell. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-10-27 5:44:38 PM |
| #16 Arafat spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh told reporters that the Palestinian Authority chairman remains in good health and.. Is this guy related to Baghdad Bob, by any chance? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-27 5:41:10 PM |
| #15 So much for Tunisian doctors.... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-10-27 5:36:17 PM |
| #14 I am not taking the MK 13 Ululator out of its cosmolene yet, but it IS sitting on my desk, ready to be activated. Soft white t-shirt rags are in the ready to wipe it down.......... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-27 5:34:41 PM |
| #13 Haretz "Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's health has deteriorated and he is in critical condition, Palestinian sources said on Wednesday night. The sources went on to say that Tunisian doctors were fighting for his life. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Wednesday approved a PA request to allow Jordanian doctors to examine Arafat. Mofaz granted permission to transfer Arafat to a hospital in Ramallah, if need be. An ambulance and a team of doctors, including the director of the Ramallah hospital, arrived at his headquarters to check on him. Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo denied earlier reports that Arafat had lost consciousness. Senior Palestinian officials, including current Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, and the heads of various Palestinian security forces, are currently in his headquarters. Arafat spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh told reporters that the Palestinian Authority chairman remains in good health and that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah had offered to send medical teams Thursday for follow-up checks." horseradish, anybody have horseradish? |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-10-27 5:27:05 PM |
| #12 When Arafat finally heads downstairs forever, there will be total inter-Islamic-gang-warfare in Samaria, Judea ('West Bank' & The Gaza Strip, which due to a breakdown of security (what little remains) placing the Gaza re-settlement issue on a long hold (if not resolved prior to Yassir's passing) Keep one eye on the Temple Mount area in conjunction with everything else transpiring in Israel over the next 2 to 6 months. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-27 5:15:16 PM |
| #11 Yup, theres been a denial on the unconsciousness thing, from one of the PA officials. And of course we dont want to tempt fate by celebrating too soon. (sayeth the Galitzianer) |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-10-27 5:13:20 PM |
| #10 Quit teasing me with this! No more posting until he dies! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-27 5:11:36 PM |
| #9 Thus the age of the ARafish passes into the abyss. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-10-27 5:09:35 PM |
| #8 i detect a Jewish holiday coming up, someone get the gefilte fish!!! |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-10-27 5:04:01 PM |
| #7 Why won't you just DIE, ugly baahstard? |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2004-10-27 4:58:50 PM |
| #6 I'll bet about now he's wishing he had a nice Jewish doctor to attend to him! |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-10-27 4:56:58 PM |
| #5 no raisins an virgins for you! |
| Posted by: Mac Suirtain 2004-10-27 4:54:53 PM |
| #4 Arafat unconcious. For whom does the bell toll, Yasser? It tolls for thee..... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-27 4:52:52 PM |
| #3 A crazy idea-slow poisoning by someone in the camp? |
| Posted by: Jules 187 2004-10-27 4:52:51 PM |
| #2 From the Fox story: Palestinian sources said that he had lost consciousness, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on its Web site. |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-10-27 4:51:37 PM |
| #1 Foxnews breaking: Arafat unconcious. |
| Posted by: Anon4021 2004-10-27 4:49:43 PM |