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November 11, 2004
Arafat -- will the French fess up?
In Friday's New York Times
PARIS, Nov. 11 - Even after Yasir Arafat's death this morning, French health officials continued their stony silence about exactly what disease killed the Palestinian leader. And so the man who lived so much of his life simply and in the public eye, died mysteriously, surrounded by secrecy.After two weeks, the medical databases at Percy military hospital in suburban Clamart must be crammed with information about Mr. Arafat's condition. Scans. Biopsies. Reams of blood test results that would have defined within minutes his kidney, liver and lung function. But those remain top secret.
Posted by Darleen at November 11, 2004 08:44 PM
Comments
I have been hearing a lot of chatter about poison. Have you?
Posted by: Mieke at November 12, 2004 11:02 AM
Actually, Mieke, if poison were the reason (and the only "chatter" of it is coming almost exclusively from the Islamist side and some of their more rabid supporters like Indymedia out of Ireland) it would have been trumpeted from here to there, because it would be more "proof" to the usual creepizoids that "Israel must be destroyed and the Jews driven into the sea."
Arafat's pederast past has caught up with him. Bets are pretty assured that he died of AIDS. The PA officials would never want that out to the Arab-Pal populace considering how these people treat gays (gay Pals flee to Israel rather than be tortured and murdered), so they have agreed to pay millions to Suha.
Wonder if there is just ONE Frenchman/woman with an ounce of decency to leak the cause of death.
Posted by: Darleen at November 12, 2004 12:20 PM
AIDS? Really?hmmmmm.
I was hearing that there is a theory within his own group that if he was poisoned, it was from within the PLO.
It will be interesting to see what is "offically listed as the cause of death".
Posted by: Mieke at November 12, 2004 12:28 PM