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Bon Jour, Mrs. Arafat… From time to time, the name Suha Arafat resurfaces in various media reports – usually as part of some controversial story, aimed at discrediting Palestinian leader Arafat. Obviously, such reports largely emanate from either Israelis or Israel supporters, but at times, also from sources in the Arab world who don't see eye to eye with Yasser Arafat's policies on different issues. Jean-Claude Gaudin, Mayor of the French city of Marseilles recently disclosed that Palestinian First Lady Suha Arafat received French citizenship. During a recent visit to Israel, Gaudin, considered a supporter of Israel, said that when...

Last update - 01:34 10/11/2004 Sources: Suha Arafat rejects $2 million settlement from Palestinian Authority By Arnon Regular Suha Arafat has rejected a $2 million financial settlement from Palestinian figures acting on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, according to French sources, who are becoming increasingly impatient with the wife of the deeply comatose Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. The settlement was aimed at persuading Suha Arafat to allow completion of the tests that would finally determine the chairman's death. Contacts between Suha Arafat and the Palestinian financiers began as soon as it became clear that Arafat would have to be flown...

MIDI - IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE It is over...for dear Yasser...hourglass is...out of sand I've had fun in Paris...with all that money...he lived in that stinking land...stinking land As he lay...on his deathbed...I will act I found his account...time to pull the plug...I found his account...say goodbye to the slug I found his account...time to pull the plug...I found his account...I will not miss his mug I could not stand...goat smell breathing...it had gagged me...every time I'm a high-priced hooker...that's what they called me...and a partner in his crimes And as he lay...on his deathbed...I've got to act...

Suha Arafat, his wife of 13 years and mother of his daughter, seems to have aligned herself with hard-liners who apparently seek to take over the Palestinian leadership in a post-Arafat era, though some Palestinian officials said her motives are more financial. According to a senior official in Arafat's office, she has received monthly payments of $100,000 from Palestinian coffers and is widely believed to have control of vast funds collected by the PLO. This year, French prosecutors launched a money-laundering probe into transfers of $11.4 million into her accounts. She has refused to talk to reporters about Palestinian finances....

The reason that Suha had such a big SUUUUHAAA today, "they are going to bury my husband alive" She doesn't know all the bank account numbers and neither does the PLA, all want the money, reason why Arafat is being kept alive. But will he ever tell? I am reposting this, I tried to Bump it up, but it didn't work, so no complaints, the night readers need to see this too.

Arafat's Top Lieutenants Head to Paris 18 minutes ago Middle East - AP By LARA SUKHTIAN, Associated Press Writer CLAMART, France - Palestinian leaders rushed to Paris on Monday to check on the critically ill Yasser Arafat, but hospital officials said visiting rights were restricted — setting the stage for a dramatic showdown between the delegation and Arafat's wife. Early Monday, Suha Arafat accused the leadership — including top lieutenants Ahmed Qureia and Mahmoud Abbas — of coming to the French capital with the sole intention of usurping her husband's role as head of the Palestinian Authority. "I tell you...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Yasser Arafat's wife Suha, long dismissed by Palestinians as a spoiled socialite, had not even seen her husband for years until he fell sick last month. But she has suddenly emerged as a major player in the succession struggle for Palestinian power. In a one-minute telephone call to the Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera, she set off a political storm Monday, accusing her husband's top aides of conspiring to replace the 75-year-old leader in a behind-the-scenes power grab. The 41-year-old Mrs. Arafat, who until now remained largely outside the political scene, said top officials aimed to...

11/08/2004 - 11:47:49 The caretaker Palestinian leadership decided today to travel to Yasser Arafat’s bedside, reversing a decision to call off the trip after being lambasted by the ailing 75-year-old leader’s wife (Suha Arafat, pictured). The caretaker Palestinian leadership decided today to travel to Yasser Arafat’s bedside, reversing a decision to call off the trip after being lambasted by the ailing 75-year-old leader’s wife. Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said he would be travelling with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. The trio had been scheduled to travel to Paris today, but postponed the...

Palestinians have said the ailing leader wants to be buried in Jerusalem JERUSALEM - Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday that security officials have completed preparations for Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, meeting participants said. The plans include busing Palestinians from the West Bank through Israel to the coastal Gaza Strip and flying in Arab leaders who don’t have diplomatic relations with Israel, security officials said. Palestinian officials have said Arafat, who is ailing in a French hospital, wants to be buried in Jerusalem. Israel has rejected that outright, signaling the first...

'Image is all' for PLO leader's fashion-loving young wife By Kim Willsher in Paris and Charlotte Edwardes(Filed: 31/10/2004)If anything was guaranteed to annoy the Palestinians, it was a comment made by Yasser Arafat's wife after the birth of their daughter, Zahwa. As Suha Arafat proudly showed off the Palestinian leader's only child at the £1,100-a-night hospital in Paris in July 1995, she declared: "Our child was conceived in Gaza, but sanitary conditions there are terrible. I don't want to be a hero and risk my baby."Her remarks highlighted the widening gulf between the Palestinian "first lady" and her people...

Thu Oct 28, 2:05 PM ET Suha Arafat, wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, talks on the phone at Allenby Bridge after crossing from Jordan to the West Bank on her way to Ramallah.(AFP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat's wife will be allowed to visit her husband on Thursday. Shaul Mofaz has allowed Mrs. Arafat's entry into Ramallah, Israel Radio reported. Mrs. Arafat, who lives in Paris, made the request directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defense on Wednesday night. The request was granted.

Pity Mister Palestine. He is looking less the tragic King Lear these days than the mad King Canute, standing on the sea shore and ordering the tide to turn back. Even his most admiring devotees are having difficulty discerning the Mandela struggling to emerge from his trademark olive drab. So, while the world leaders take off for their lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, Yasser ("what crisis?") Arafat remains entombed in Ramallah, beset by dissent in Gaza, threats of revolt in the West Bank, and reform-or-else ultimatums from his former security chief. And, to top it all, there are renewed...

Dear Maariv Newspaper Editor, Please Publish... The following is a translation of a letter written in the Online Forum of one of Israel's major newspapers, Maariv, by a female reader named  Rachel. The letter was in response to the major online headline about The Bodies of the Six Soldiers that had died in a Gaza security offensive and how their remains had been defiled by the Palestinian terror groups. See: Palestinians Parade Israeli Soldiers’ Remains (DEBKAfile) (05/11/04) http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=843 This letter  may be one of the most popular letters ever written in this widely read forum receiving unanimous and unequivocal...

Dozens of internal United Nations audits of the troubled oil-for-food program in Iraq were routinely shown only to the U.N. official now at the center of an international scandal over kickbacks from the regime of Saddam Hussein, a congressional investigator said yesterday. Joseph A. Christoff, director of international affairs and trade at the General Accounting Office, told a House hearing that U.N. auditors had refused to release the internal audits to GAO investigators probing the scandal that poured an estimated $10.1 billion from secret oil sales and inflated contracts into Saddam's coffers under the U.N. program. "We sure asked for...

<p>In the last few weeks, CNN has suffered a series of embarrassing incidents calling into question its news judgment and ability to meet the most basic standards of fairness in reporting on Israel. CNN boss Ted Turner made the following statement about the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. "I would make the case that both sides are engaged in terrorism," he told the Guardian newspaper. Although Mr. Turner subsequently apologized for suggesting that Israel was behaving this way, the damage had been done.</p>

Arafat's $Billions in Assets and Investments (Mideast Newswire Archive) Arafat's Wife's Spends Millions While Palestinian Children Starve (Irish Blog Via FR Forum) (02/11/04) ------------------------------------------------------------- On the eve of the famous "hand shake" on the White House lawn which rewarded Rabin and Arafat with the Nobel Prize for Peace, the PLO made Britain's most dangerous terrorist/criminal organizations list. The British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) also reported that the PLO had world-wide assets approaching $10 billion and an additional annual income of about $1.5 to 2 billion, generated from illegal activities. Surprisingly, the report was not picked up by the media....

ALSO SEE: Arafat's Wife on a Luxury Trip NY DAILY NEWS (11/06/03)---------------------------------------------Last week we were told that "Malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is as bad as in sub-Saharan Africa because the Palestinian economy has all but collapsed under Israeli restrictions." (Irish Times February 6, 2004) A report by the cross-party International Development Select Committee also called on Britain to press the European Union to impose trade sanctions on Israel until it lifts its restrictions on Palestinian trade. The World Bank said last year that the Palestinian economy was in steep decline after the Israeli army blockaded and...

"There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews." – Golda Meir In Suha Arafat's case, she must hate Jews more than she loves men who shave, bathe and speak with a reasonable measure of articulation. The combination of Suha's physical appearance and choice in men brings two words to mind: mad cow. Yeah, I'll concede that's a sexist term, but how could I resist applying it to her? Long overdue, Suha is being subjected to a money-laundering investigation – part of four developments that expose just how sleazy...

<p>No other potential candidate broke out of single digits, while 14 percent said they were unsure.</p> <p>Clinton, elected to the Senate two years ago, has also said she will not be a candidate in 2004.</p> <p>9 percent and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina at 8 percent.</p>