The Yasser Arafat News Thread

[TexasStooge]

OK, let's start off a thread on stories about Yasser Arafat's condition, just to save space on the boards.

Arafat's Condition Deteriorates Rapidly

CLAMART, France (AP) - Yasser Arafat's condition deteriorated dramatically overnight as his coma deepened, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday, and top Palestinian officials met with his medical team.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _ea/arafat

[Brent]

The rumors are anywhere from he's already dead to he's alive and well.

[GalvestonDuck]

I'm confused about how they could tell that his coma "deepened." How do you know? Did he drop the remote?

[Skywatch_NC]

Gotta be the 1st he's alive, he's dead, he's alive, he's dead international figure that I'm aware of in history...I mean just hold a mirror up to his nose.

Eric

[Brent]

I'm confused about how they could tell that his coma "deepened." How do you know? Did he drop the remote?

My mom asked me "How does a coma deepen?"

[TexasStooge]

I'm confused about how they could tell that his coma "deepened." How do you know? Did he drop the remote?

My mom asked me "How does a coma deepen?"

Good one!

[Brent]

Well... ABC News Radio broke in to report at the top of the hour that he's really dead.

But wait...

5 minutes later, we're back to "No he's not". They now say he has a brain hemmorage(Isn't this about the 226th thing he has had in the last week?) and that he's fine with the news channels reporting he is about dead.



Just put a gun to his head and pull the trigger.

[TexasStooge]

Arafat Critical; Vital Organs Functioning

PARIS, France (AP) - Yasser Arafat's condition deteriorated dramatically overnight as his coma deepened, but the Palestinian foreign minister said Tuesday he is "still alive" and his brain, heart and lungs are working.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _ea/arafat

[chadtm80]

Arafat Critical; Vital Organs Functioning

PARIS, France (AP) - Yasser Arafat's condition deteriorated dramatically overnight as his coma deepened, but the Palestinian foreign minister said Tuesday he is "still alive" and his brain, heart and lungs are working.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _ea/arafat

The French still cant do anything right

[Brent]

[alicia-w]

Well... ABC News Radio broke in to report at the top of the hour that he's really dead.

But wait...

5 minutes later, we're back to "No he's not". They now say he has a brain hemmorage(Isn't this about the 226th thing he has had in the last week?) and that he's fine with the news channels reporting he is about dead.



Just put a gun to his head and pull the trigger.

Now that's just not right. That's murder. Pulling the plug is different.

No one says he's fine but no one is stating he's reached the point of being clinically dead. They're trying to delay the inevitable. Obviously, there's no successor chosen yet and the PA has to be ready for some pretty violent activity.

[chadtm80]

Well... ABC News Radio broke in to report at the top of the hour that he's really dead.

But wait...

5 minutes later, we're back to "No he's not". They now say he has a brain hemmorage(Isn't this about the 226th thing he has had in the last week?) and that he's fine with the news channels reporting he is about dead.



Just put a gun to his head and pull the trigger.

Now that's just not right. That's murder. Pulling the plug is different.

No one says he's fine but no one is stating he's reached the point of being clinically dead. They're trying to delay the inevitable. Obviously, there's no successor chosen yet and the PA has to be ready for some pretty violent activity.

No its NOT murder.. Its JUSTICE

[TexasStooge]

Arafat's Heart Functioning - Palestinian Minister

PARIS, France (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was very ill but his brain, heart and lungs were still functioning, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _arafat_dc

[Brent]

Well... ABC News Radio broke in to report at the top of the hour that he's really dead.

But wait...

5 minutes later, we're back to "No he's not". They now say he has a brain hemmorage(Isn't this about the 226th thing he has had in the last week?) and that he's fine with the news channels reporting he is about dead.



Just put a gun to his head and pull the trigger.

Now that's just not right. That's murder. Pulling the plug is different.

No one says he's fine but no one is stating he's reached the point of being clinically dead. They're trying to delay the inevitable. Obviously, there's no successor chosen yet and the PA has to be ready for some pretty violent activity.

That was sarcasm. I wish they would make up their mind though and quit spreading baseless rumors.

[GalvestonDuck]

If he has a brain hemorrhage, I wonder (since they haven't reported it) if he has a hole bore into his skull to relieve/monitor the pressure. I didn't hear anything about that -- just about how his "incarceration" wreaked havoc on his digestive system.

[Brent]

The saga continues.

PARIS (Reuters) - The fate of Yasser Arafat was mired in confusion on Tuesday as Palestinian officials insisted in public he was clinging to life even as aides said privately the veteran leader had died at a Paris hospital.

Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, in a strenuous denial, said the Palestinian president, 75, was "very much alive," but at least five senior sources said he had succumbed to the mystery illness that led to his being flown to Paris on Oct. 29.

A top aide said Arafat, who lapsed into a coma last week, had suffered a brain hemorrhage. Palestinian sources said leaders were waiting for a senior Muslim cleric to arrive on Wednesday to give the go-ahead for disconnecting life-support machines.

"He is dead," one Palestinian source said. "He died after bleeding in the brain began last night. His bodyguards started hugging and kissing and telling each other to be strong."

Shaath described Arafat as "very ill," but said his brain, heart and lungs still functioned. A spokesman for French medical services said earlier: "Mr. Arafat is not dead."

[alicia-w]

Here's some info from the Jerusalem Post:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1099887816868