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2007-02-26 Iraq

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-26 11:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Amman - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is 'in very good health', his doctor Yadkar Rauf Hishmat told reporters Monday. However, Hishmat said medical staff had decided he should remain at hospital for 'several days.'

The Iraqi leader was flown to Amman at midnight Sunday after suffering a sudden ailment and later admitted to the King Hussein Medical Centre. Preliminary reports suggested 74-year-old Talabani suffered a heart attack, but his doctor affirmed Monday that the examinations showed that his heart was '100 per cent sound'.

Jordan's King Abdullah II earlier in the day visited Talabani and wished him a 'swift recovery.' He earlier instructed the Royal Medical Services to 'extend the best services and facilities to President Talabani until he recovers,' according to an official statement.

Head of the Kurdish mission accompanying Talabani, Mulla Bakhtiar, told reporters at the hospital that the sudden illness was due to 'fatigue resulting from the burdens he is bearing owing to the difficult circumstances through which the Iraqi people are passing.'

According to reports from Iraq's northern Kurdish province, Talabani was facing a mutiny at his party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Posted by Steve 2007-02-26 13:29|| 2007-02-26 13:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Fake "Fall down and Go Boom? Get Publicity and Sympathy? Or Doctors Lying? You decide.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-26 14:24|| 2007-02-26 14:24|| Front Page Top

#3 May be the Jooos gave him the Arafat mystery disease. Or may be the one they gave old Saudi King Fahd. It got loose and afflicted their own Ariel Sharon too. Get nervous, Iranian leaders - you might be next. (Don't sleep, that's when it'll get you - take some of that amphetamine stuff you give the jihadis, that should do the trick.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-02-26 16:23|| 2007-02-26 16:23|| Front Page Top

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