ARAFAT DEAD

[TheAudit]

Reuters

 

[FoBoT]

he is pulling a "butthead"


remember the Beavis and Butthead episode where they wanted to get some $, so they pretended to get hit by a car, then they grabbed their chest and yelled "ouch! my liver!!"


he is copying beavis "oh! my liver!!"

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: FoBoT
is he dead yet?

Yes - according to Reuters, google, yahoo, and the US President.


No ? according to sniperruff and a few Kerry supporters who think Ohio might still come through, and that Arafat will come back to life because the health care system in France is socialized.

What a kind of Krap is that ? Your man won the election already, now maybe you should give it a rest ?

I can't belive how many gloating, conservative, moralistic religious zelots there are on this board.
I bet that all of you right wingers won't be anywhere near as smug when W's term is over and its crystal clear to all what a buffoon his is.

 

[TheAudit]

Originally posted by: Stifko

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: FoBoT
is he dead yet?

Yes - according to Reuters, google, yahoo, and the US President.


No ? according to sniperruff and a few Kerry supporters who think Ohio might still come through, and that Arafat will come back to life because the health care system in France is socialized.

What a kind of Krap is that ? Your man won the election already, now maybe you should give it a rest ?

I can't belive how many gloating, conservative, moralistic religious zelots there are on this board.
I bet that all of you right wingers won't be anywhere near as smug when W's term is over and its crystal clear to all what a buffoon his is.

Your man lost the election, now maybe you should give it a rest?

 

[Stifko]

I gave it a rest already man, I am not the one posting this kind of drivel:

few Kerry supporters who think Ohio might still come through, and that Arafat will come back to life because the health care system in France is socialized

 

[MercenaryForHire]

*fires an AK47 into the air and uluates joyously*

- M4H

 

[spanky]

is this a credible course?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne.../mideast_arafat_dc_126

strange... in mozilla, the link looks fubar'ed, but in IE, it looks normal.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: glen
The president thinks he is dead.

Yahoo! News

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Israel and Palestinians brace for worst with Arafat 'brain dead'

2 hours, 11 minutes ago


JERUSALEM (AFP) - Political leaders in Israel and the West Bank steeled themselves for the end of the Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) era as the vanguard of the Palestinian nationalist struggle for the past four decades lay brain dead in a Paris hospital.


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Palestinian officials fiercely denied that Arafat had passed away after Israeli media reported that the 75-year-old had died.


But while French medical sources said Arafat was technically still alive, they added that he was "brain dead" and only breathing with the help of life support machines while in an irreversible coma.


Technically, Arafat is "not dead," one source told AFP on condition of confidentiality. But there was no hope of him leaving his vegetative state and recovering basic bodily functions such as breathing without assistance.


Such artificial care can be "extended for several days or several weeks thanks to the machines," the source said.


Israel's private Channel 2 network and army radio had reported that Arafat had been declared dead at a military hospital in Clamart, southwest of Paris.


But Azzam al-Ahmed, communications minister in the Palestinian cabinet and one of Arafat's closest allies, insisted news of his death was premature.


"It is wrong. If the president was dead, the whole world would know," he told AFP. "But it is true that he is a very critical condition."


Arafat was flown to Paris last Friday for treatment of a blood disorder after being airlifted from the compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah where he had been under effective Israeli house arrest for nearly three years.


Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei had earlier tried to play down the seriousness of Arafat's condition, denying he was in a coma and insisting new test results had been positive.


Qorei had been attending emergency leadership meetings of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the dominant Fatah (news - web sites) party. Both have been led by Arafat for some four decades, but were chaired Thursday by former premier Mahmud Abbas.


Hundreds of Fatah supporters brandished portraits of Arafat as they took to the streets of Gaza City late Thursday while prayers were said for his welfare.


"We pray to Almighty God for the swift recovery of our president Yasser Arafat so that he can return to his people in good health," said the imam at Gaza's Sheikh Zayid mosque.


Residents in Ramallah were glued to their television sets for updates on the town's famous resident.


"I can't bear the thought he will die for good. He's our national leader, the one and only," said 33-year-old Mohammed Ribhi as his eyes filled with tears.


Amid widespread fears that Arafat's death could trigger chaos on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites), all members of the Palestinian security services were placed on a state of alert Thursday.


"The security forces have been put on a state of alert and all members ordered to be on standby," one senior officer said.


"We have been told to prepare for any activity which is beyond the law and to protect the legitimacy of all the Palestinian institutions."

Signs of nerves on the Israeli side were also evident as troops in the occupied territories were placed on alert after Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz called a meeting in Tel Aviv attended by the heads of the country's security services.

Israeli public television, meanwhile, reported that army commanders were to urge the government to capitalise on Arafat's demise by working more closely with the Palestinians.

The army has drawn up plans, codenamed "New Page", to deal with all possible eventualities should Arafat die. But officers would also urge the government to coordinate its withdrawal of settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites), due to take place by the end of 2005, with Arafat's successors, the television said.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) has refused all dealings with Arafat since coming to power in 2001, instead confining him to his West Bank headquarters until his dramatic airlift to Paris last Friday.

Arafat's death or permanent incapacitation has the potential to galvanise the Middle East peace process.

Sharon met Abbas on a number of occasions last year before a massive suicide bomb prompted Israel to freeze top-level contacts with the Palestinians.

Arafat has also been snubbed by US President George W. Bush (news - web sites). Asked for his reaction to the reports of Arafat's death, Bush said "God bless his soul".

although i hate bush, i feel it necessary to point out a fact: bush said that in response to a reporter TELLING him arafat was dead, and it was the first he had heard of it. what else do you expect him to say? even the freaking BBC threw him that bone.

 

[grrl]

This situation reminds me of that old SNL line when Francisco Franco was being kept alive, but in a coma - "Yasser Arafat is still dead."

 

[Linux23]

so is he dead yet?

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Linux23
so is he dead yet?

Douchebags never die, they just go to France.

 

[FoBoT]

is he dead yet?

 

[WhiteKnight]

Still gravely ill.

 

[chuckywang]

can the OP please change the title of this thread until it is unanimously confirmed? This is the way misinformation is spread.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
can the OP please change the title of this thread until it is unanimously confirmed? This is the way misinformation is spread.

i think the internet will handle the misinformation regardless of this thread's title

 

[TheAudit]

He didn't look that bad when he was boarding the airplane: he was waving and throwing kisses.
Then he goes to France and Wham! It's Coma Time!
It's a French Conspiracy!

 

[SP33Demon]

He's not dead yet? :Q

 

[TheAudit]

Originally posted by: Stifko
I gave it a rest already man, I am not the one posting this kind of drivel:

few Kerry supporters who think Ohio might still come through, and that Arafat will come back to life because the health care system in France is socialized

You are posting this kind of drivel.

I can't belive how many gloating, conservative, moralistic religious zelots there are on this board.

It's the same thing that you are complaining about, brudda.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: chuckywang
can the OP please change the title of this thread until it is unanimously confirmed? This is the way misinformation is spread.

i think the internet will handle the misinformation regardless of this thread's title

no need to deepen the problem

 

[FoBoT]

where is Dr. McCoy when you need him

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: TheAudit
He didn't look that bad when he was boarding the airplane: he was waving and throwing kisses.
Then he goes to France and Wham! It's Coma Time!
It's a French Conspiracy!

Hmm....stand-in?

 

Don't care now, won't care later.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: TheAudit
He didn't look that bad when he was boarding the airplane: he was waving and throwing kisses.
Then he goes to France and Wham! It's Coma Time!
It's a French Conspiracy!

Hmm....stand-in?

It's like John Travolta in Swordfish!

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Just look at it this way: In the end, he'll be dead, guaranteed

Jason

Originally posted by: waggy
ohh wow. wonder how this is going to play out?

 

[FoBoT]

did he get better yet?