Arafat Dead...

[Tassadar500]

Sheesh. Just die already Arafat.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
Sheesh. Just die already Arafat.

Sounds just like me only five posts back.

[Tassadar500]

But there was a difference of twenty-four hours, and every second, minute, hour, and day is plagued by Arafat's existence.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
Sheesh. Just die already Arafat.

[Flip McWho]

quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk When he dies, could a mod put "No, wait -- he's dead." after "But not true" in the title?

I second that

Thirded. Would be hilarity

Can't say I'll really notice his death.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Lord Nuclear
But there was a difference of twenty-four hours, and every second, minute, hour, and day is plagued by Arafat's existence.

Die.

[The Mad Monk]

May not be long now.

Arafat Has Liver Failure, Officials Say


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Nov 7, 8:36 AM (ET)


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By Wafa Amr

PARIS (Reuters) - Yasser Arafat lay critically ill with liver failure on Sunday and his condition was getting no better, a Palestinian official said, as Palestinian leaders adopted in his absence a plan to restore order in their areas.

Israel completed preparations to bury the Palestinian president, should he die, in the Gaza Strip -- a move that would contradict Arafat's stated desire to be buried in Jerusalem.

Amid growing concern over who will succeed the 75-year-old leader, who is being treated at a French military hospital, some aides said his condition was so bad he might be moved to Egypt, from where he could be flown home more quickly if he died.

"He has liver failure. His condition is not improving," said a Palestinian official in the West Bank who declined to be named. "One option being considered is moving him to Cairo."

The official said any decision to move Arafat could be taken only by the Palestinian leadership. He added that a low count of platelets, which help the blood clot, meant blood transfusions were proving difficult.

Doctors have ruled out leukemia but remain puzzled why Arafat's health deteriorated sharply last week at the Paris hospital, where he has been having tests since he was flown from the West Bank on Oct. 29.

In Ramallah, site of Arafat's headquarters, his fellow leaders decided to carry out a plan to restore law and order in the West Bank and Gaza, a government minister said. It was the first major decision they have announced since Arafat left.

Officials said the plan was drafted in March and is more concerned with ending local lawlessness than reining in militants waging a 4-year-old uprising -- a long-standing Israeli and international demand.

Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat told Reuters the National Security Council decided to "implement a plan to restore the rule of law in the Palestinian territories."

The security plan calls for more security forces to be deployed. Militants will be banned from carrying arms except when confronting Israel and stopped from intervening in local disturbances.

ISRAEL SEES SIGNS OF ACTION

Arafat and other officials often promised action on the security front, with little result. Arafat said the Palestinians were hamstrung by Israel's destruction of their forces during the uprising.

Briefing Israel's cabinet on Sunday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said there were signs that Palestinian leaders were trying to curtail violence.

"There are indications that they are trying to close ranks and stop the Hamas terrorism, but there is no way of knowing if this will succeed," he said.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie came under pressure from the armed factions on Saturday to give them decision-making powers in a temporary unified leadership they want if Arafat dies. He did not say he had agreed.

Arafat wants to be buried in Jerusalem's Old City, which is holy both to Muslims and Jews, but Israeli officials refuse to let him lie in land which Israel calls part of its indivisible capital and which it annexed after the 1967 war.

Israel wants him buried in the Gaza Strip.

"The defense establishment has completed preparations for an Arafat funeral in Gaza," political sources quoted Mofaz as telling Sunday's cabinet meeting.

"The moment we receive a Palestinian Authority request on the matter, we will implement final preparations. We still await a formal announcement of Arafat's death."

Israel allowed the Palestinian leader to be flown from the West Bank to France and returning him to Gaza would require similar permission.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20041107/2004-11-07T133601Z_01_N07405410_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-ARAFAT-DC.html

...so now we can add liver failure to the list of what's wrong with him.

[Vince278]

[PLATO]

Doctors have ruled out leukemia but remain puzzled why Arafat's health deteriorated

Does anyone but me find it amazing that there isn't allegations flying over this statement?

[Drake Tungsten]

So, does he have AIDS or not? Inquiring minds want to know...

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

What no dead pool yet?

[St Leo]

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[The Mad Monk]

The fact that they haven't indicated anything tells me it's either AIDS, or something as embarrasing to conservative Islam as AIDS.

...

So it's AIDS.

His wife is getting antsy. I guess she found the bankbook.

[pchang]

Probably Hep C.

[PLATO]

Still not dead? Will check back later...