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  • Arafat Dead / Not Dead Thread (Day 10)

    11/06/2004 5:21:00 AM PST · by jriemer · 50 replies · 2,757+ views
    AP ^ | 10/28/2004 | Staff
    RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat - too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping - agreed to leave his battered compound for the first time in more than two years and fly to Paris for urgent medical treatment. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader's planned departure Friday, a decade after he arrived on the West Bank of the Jordan River with the promise of statehood, could mark the end of an era. Arafat, who hoarded power and declined to groom a successor, leaves behind a people in disarray. Blood tests...