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Arafat Slowly, Fatally Poisoned
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Palestinians
Islam Online
11-6-4
- Palestinian President Yasser Arafat had been slowly
yet fatally poisoned before being taken to a French military hospital
for treatment, Palestinian sources told IslamOnline.net on Thursday,
November 4.
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- "This slow poisoning of Arafat caused problems in his
blood platelets, a case which leads to continuous comas followed by a
long irreversible coma and death, the sources said, on condition of
anonymity.
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- They added that the Palestinian security bodies have
opened investigations into the poisoning in Arafat, who had been
confined to his presidential Ramallah compound by Israel during the last
three years.
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- Tests have already revealed that the 75-year-old
Palestinian leader has a low count of blood platelets, which are needed
for clotting, but doctors are uncertain over what is causing the
condition.
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- Mohammed Rashid, a close associate of the Palestinian
leader, said earlier in the day Arafat,s health sometimes suffers
setbacks and improves at other times _ which is the same symptoms
described by the sources to IOL.
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- Possibly Poisoned,
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- Meanwhile, Arafat's personal physician, Dr. Ashraf
Kurdi, told Aljazeera on air that "the Arafat,s health condition makes
the poisoning a strong possibility.
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- Arafat's chief of staff, Ramzi Khoury, called an
Associated Press reporter from Paris and told him: "I am standing next
to the president's bed, he is in grave condition.
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- French LCI television station quoted an anonymous
French medical official as saying Arafat was in an "irreversible coma
and "intubated " a process that usually involves threading a tube down
the windpipe to the lungs. The tube is often connected to a life support
machine to help the patient breathe.
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- The Israeli media reported that Arafat was brain dead
but remained on life support. Other media outlets reported that the
gravely-ill Palestinian leader had died or was brain dead.
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- More Complex,
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- These statements came after Luxembourg Prime Minister
Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters at a summit of European leaders in
Belgium that Arafat had died, but he later retracted the
statement.
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- After Juncker's initial statement, a spokesman for the
military hospital where Arafat was rushed Friday said he was still
alive.
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- "Arafat is not dead, said Christian Estripeau, head of
communications for French military health services.
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- "The clinical situation of the first few days
following admission has become more complex, said Estripeau.
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- He gave no word whether Arafat is in coma or not. The
Palestinian leader was taken to intensive care after his condition
worsened.
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- Threats
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- Israel had earlier threatened to kill Arafat for
repeated times. Arafat had escaped 13 assassination bids, including
three poisoning attempts, according to the Palestinian sources. Israeli
Industry Minister Ehud Olmert said on September 14, that "killing Arafat
is an option".
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- Arafat cannot continue to be a factor in the Middle
East scene. His expulsion is an option, his liquidation is another
option. It is also possible to confine him to prison-like conditions,"
Olmert, who is also deputy Prime Minister, told Israeli radio at the
time.
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- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened the
same day to expel Arafat from the occupied Palestinian territories. The
hawkish Premier said Arafat would be banished from the Palestinian lands
at the convenient time as was the case with Hamas top leaders late
sheikh Ahmad Yassin and Abdul Aziz Al-Rantissi.
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- Yassin and Rantissi were assassinated in an Israeli
missile attacks on occupied Palestinian territories this year. Sharon
even admitted personally supervising one of the two assaults. But the
statements have drawn massive intensive fire from the international
community, having probably forced Israel to put the plans of
assassinating Arafat on hold at that
time.
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