Yasser arafat is dead

[Cynic81]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...bit/index.html

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[PiranhaPlant]

I'm a little bit surprised but it was bound to happen. Kept hearing on the radio over and over, he's alive not dead.

[Finch]

its unfortunante he spent his last three years being penned in his West Bank headquarters by Israeli tanks

Quote[/b] ]he saw his influence weakened by the rise of radical Islam in recent years.

So... he was hurt by radicle islam too??

Quote[/b] ]Arafat crisscrossed the globe in his quest for diplomatic support in opening a dialogue with the United States and Israel. In 1988 he formally renounced terrorism, and the peace process was born.

By 1993 Arafat was ready to recognize Israel's right to exist. He signed a peace agreement with Israel which envisaged the gradual implementation of Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over a five-year period - the foundations for a future independent Palestinian state.

[Ozzy]

I think he was poisoned or killed in some other way.

[nepenthes gracilis]

For every "bad" person dead, theres always a predecessor to take his place.

[herenorthere]

It's amazing how recent Israeli governments could behave so badly that a murderer like Arafat ended up looking like the statesman. It wasn't easy, but they managed it. Now Bin Laden is talking the same talk. Let's hope our government's behavior doesn't enable him pull it off too. So far, I'm not optimistic.

[Finch]

Quote[/b] ]think he was poisoned or killed in some other way

i dont think so. Before he left he had gallstones and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Also he had the flu when he went to the hospital

[TheAlphaWolf]

one down...
fidel castro, osama, saddam, the lybia guy,the korean guy, etc.. to go

[scottychaos]

I heard on the radio that many Palestinians are blaming his death on Israel..
that must be true, because, as we all know, elderly people NEVER die of natural causes!

Scot

[ALLOSAURZ]

Quote[/b] (TheAlphaWolf @ Nov. 11 2004,11:06)]one down...
fidel castro, osama, saddam, the lybia guy,the korean guy, etc.. to go

I'd scratch fidel castro off that list. The only majorly bad thing he has done was support the russians during te Cold War and he did that for Cuba. The money he recieved from the USSR went to his war on illiteracy, free universal health care etc. Castro is not a bad leader it is just his views differ with Amercan views so we label him evil. Not all communists are bad.