[lit-ideas] Arafat
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:29:09 EST
Arafat either is dead, in a coma, or fine, depending on which news service
you read. Please see below. I wonder if anyone will actually know it when he
*does* die!
Julie Krueger
Jerusalem Post says <<A US diplomat in Jerusalem has told The Jerusalem Post
Thursday evening that Arafat has died.
"Lots of questions coming out of Washington about what's next," the diplomat
said. >>
However, CNN says: "Hospital Denies Reports of Arafat's Death", <<
The spokesman told reporters that Arafat is not dead.
Earlier senior Palestinian officials told CNN Arafat was in critical
condition after drifting in and out of consciousness throughout the night.
Medical officials have not confirmed Arafat's condition.
Arafat's senior adviser Nabil Abu Rudeineh dismissed reports that the
75-year-old leader was in a coma as "rumors.">>
and BBC says: <<French doctors treating Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
have denied Israeli TV reports that he has died.
Mr Arafat's health has deteriorated sharply in the last two days and he is
being treated in intensive care.
Israel's Channel Two television quoted unnamed sources in Paris which said Mr
Arafat underwent a brain scan and was "no longer alive".
Mr Arafat, 75, was flown to a military hospital in Paris last week. He has
led the Palestinians since the 1960s.
"Mr Arafat is not dead," said head physician Christian Estripeau in a brief
statement outside the military hospital.
An emergency meeting of top Palestinian officials has taken place in the West
Bank to discuss the crisis.
At his Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah,
officials stated publicly that Mr Arafat was "absolutely not in a coma".
But sources close to his entourage in Paris said he had fallen unconscious
three times in the past two days, and had not regained consciousness the third
time. >>
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