Posted on 11/10/2004 8:53:53 PM PST by ambrose
Aide says Arafat 'sleeping'
By Lara Sukhtian
The Associated Press
Published: Monday, November 8, 2004
CLAMART, France - Yasser Arafat was not in a coma but remained in intensive care Saturday after undergoing more medical tests, a senior aide to the ailing Palestinian leader said. Test results were expected within days.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, Arafat's spokesman, would not say whether his announcement meant Arafat had emerged from a coma or whether he had not been comatose at all. He also refused to say whether he saw Arafat personally, and he did not specify the nature of the new medical tests.
"He is not in a coma," Abu Rdeneh told reporters after coming out of the French military hospital where Arafat has been treated for more than a week.
"He is under strict medical observance. We hope that in the coming few days we will be able to know exactly what he is suffering from. So far, nobody could diagnose the situation," he said at about midnight, adding that Arafat's condition was stable.
"Right now he is sleeping."
Doctors have not yet made public any diagnosis, but the Palestinian envoy to France, Leila Shahid, said Friday that the 75-year-old Arafat was in a coma and "at a critical point between life and death."
Earlier, hospital spokesman Gen. Christian Estripeau described Arafat's condition as unchanged from Friday. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, in a bid to preserve calm, made a rare visit to the Gaza Strip for talks with rival Palestinian groups.
Qureia met for four hours with representatives of the 13 major Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as security chiefs, lawmakers and officials of Arafat's Fatah faction. Such a broad gathering is extremely rare.
Yeah, taking a "dirt nap".
Yeah, sleeping in hell.
Sleepin wit da fishes
You stole my line you jerk!lol
Um...isn't the date on that article Nov. 8th, as in Monday? Today's what? The 12th?
He's pining for the fjords.
He's pining for the fjords!
11th (well it will be by the time I post this). My mistake.
These people live in a fool's paradise. Obviously, Arafat is in a deep trance. Its best not to disturb them while in this state.
Yeah...well...when the sucker starts to drip through the bed onto the floor in a day or so, they can put him on ice and go on pretending. :-)
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12 #$%&ing seconds, you bustard!!!
I like this one "giong to Deadlyland!" Hee
no wonder the palestinians are an impovershed society. nobody knows what the hell is going on. this whole episode shows that the palestinian leadership is weak and unwilling to speak the truth, for whatever reason.
He's now a registurd Democrat in Baltimore ..
Too funny, great minds...
I know - this POS has been dead for a week now.
I like the tombstone that read: "I TOLD you I was sick!"
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