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CAUSE OF ARAFAT'S DEATH A SECRET ONLY FAMILY CAN REVEAL
The Tocqueville Connection ^ | November 11, 2004

Posted on 11/11/2004 4:07:51 PM PST by kupia_kummi

CAUSE OF ARAFAT'S DEATH A SECRET ONLY FAMILY CAN REVEAL

PARIS, Nov 11 - The mystery remained over the cause of Yasser Arafat's death Thursday after French military doctors who treated the Palestinian leader said it was private information meant for his family only.     "I have no declaration to make on that subject," a spokesman for the French military's medical service, Christian Estripeau, told AFP.     "It is not up to the defence forces' health service to reveal information given to the family."     The only people in a position to lift the veil on the medical secret are Arafat's family, and above all his wife Suha, who severely restricted the release of her husband's medical information and limited bedside visits to a handful of Palestinian officials since he was airlifted to France on October 29.     Officially the 75-year-old Arafat was admitted to the hospital as a result of complications from gastric flu. "Gastric flu" was mentioned in the past to explain his health problems, in particular in 2003, when the British newspaper The Guardian reported that he had been the victim of a mild heart attack.     Suggestions that he was suffering from cancer, leukaemia or poisoning were all denied by members of Arafat's immediate circle.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arafat; palestine
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What are they hiding?
1 posted on 11/11/2004 4:07:51 PM PST by kupia_kummi
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To: kupia_kummi

A.I.D.S. or, in French, S.I.D.A.


2 posted on 11/11/2004 4:10:01 PM PST by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: kupia_kummi

Heck, they wouldn't even tell us when he died. He's dead. No he's in a coma. He's not dead and not in a coma. He's in a "complex state" but not dead. His condition has remained the same. He's death announcement will be made tomorrow...but until then he's alive, we're sure, maybe.


3 posted on 11/11/2004 4:10:18 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: kupia_kummi

could it be Syphilis ?


4 posted on 11/11/2004 4:11:00 PM PST by traumer
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To: kupia_kummi
"Whether on the gallows high
Or where blood flows the reddest,
The noblest place for man to die-
Is where he died the deadest"
Ambrose Bierce
Does the cause of death really matters? The result does.
5 posted on 11/11/2004 4:14:17 PM PST by GSlob
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To: mondonico

France is one of the few countries that does not require a statement of CAUSE OF DEATH. Another reason, for Arafat to go there.


6 posted on 11/11/2004 4:15:45 PM PST by MaryJaneNC
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To: CWOJackson

You left out "he's just sleeping." ;)


7 posted on 11/11/2004 4:15:46 PM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: CWOJackson
Personally, I don't give a rat's rear end HOW he died. I'm glad he's finally gone.
8 posted on 11/11/2004 4:15:54 PM PST by the Deejay
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To: kupia_kummi

This is as close to admitting the real cause as the French will ever do.


9 posted on 11/11/2004 4:16:20 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: the Deejay

(applauding wildly) Yes, that was our reaction as well. That, and a sigh of relief.


10 posted on 11/11/2004 4:16:44 PM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: MaryJaneNC
He knew he was dying, and didn't want the word to get out that he died of AIDS. This is why France was chosen.

Arafag died from AIDS.
I wonder if Suha has it too?
11 posted on 11/11/2004 4:18:14 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: mondonico

Somewhere this week on another Arafat thread there was a long article about his sexual proclivities (bi-sexual) and the long-time rumor that he'd contracted HIV.


12 posted on 11/11/2004 4:19:00 PM PST by SE Mom (God Bless our troops.)
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To: kupia_kummi
Limbaugh did mention aids and there have been several threads suggesting that.

If it smells like a terrorist....
13 posted on 11/11/2004 4:20:19 PM PST by rodguy911 ( President Reagan---all the rest.)
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To: kupia_kummi

Yessir Amafart: Weapon of A$$ Destruction.


14 posted on 11/11/2004 4:20:20 PM PST by pipecorp ("never know where you're going till you get there." the philosopher Insectus Harem)
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To: GSlob
Does the cause of death really matters?

Only if he was assisinated, or if he had AIDS (which would be a very big scandal in his part of the world).

15 posted on 11/11/2004 4:20:31 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: MizSterious

He's not dead, he's pining for the fjords.


16 posted on 11/11/2004 4:20:44 PM PST by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: kupia_kummi

Satan finally needed his coordinator back to invent new ways to torture souls...


17 posted on 11/11/2004 4:21:08 PM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ((The Left will concede a mistake and apologize before I would offer solace to an Islamo-Fascist))
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To: MizSterious
(applauding wildly)

Thank you, thank you very much! (LOL)

I HOPE he STAYS DEAD.

The past two weeks have been back and forth a bit.

(Just wondering if they removed life support though.) hehehe..

18 posted on 11/11/2004 4:21:13 PM PST by the Deejay
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To: the Deejay


And, how can we be sure he died. The French would do anything to protect him. We know he would like a bit more freedom.
We may be duped by the French.


19 posted on 11/11/2004 4:22:01 PM PST by fabriclady
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To: CWOJackson; everyone

Mrs. Arafat kept him alive until she could get her reportedly 22 mil/year out of him, and then - off with the life support! If true, some deal, huh?


20 posted on 11/11/2004 4:22:18 PM PST by Theresawithanh (Gloating is great, gloating is fun! Keep on gloating, everyone!)
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