on politics of a different sort...
No one can decide if Yasser Arafat is dead or not:
Arafat Reported Clinically Dead; PM Denies
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources.
But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: "I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit."
Israel's Channel Two television cited unnamed sources in Paris saying that Arafat underwent a brain scan and was found to be "no longer alive."
Palestinian sources earlier told Reuters that the Palestinian president, who was admitted to hospital last week with a mysterious stomach illness, had slipped into a coma.
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I am glad I am not working for the Egyptians right now. Whenever anything happened between Israel and Palestine, it was like the END OF THE WORLD. Nevermind that this happened twice a week. *That's* not annoying. I imagine I would be on "Arafat Death Watch" if I were there now.
Arafat Reported Clinically Dead; PM Denies
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources.
But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: "I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit."
Israel's Channel Two television cited unnamed sources in Paris saying that Arafat underwent a brain scan and was found to be "no longer alive."
Palestinian sources earlier told Reuters that the Palestinian president, who was admitted to hospital last week with a mysterious stomach illness, had slipped into a coma.
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I am glad I am not working for the Egyptians right now. Whenever anything happened between Israel and Palestine, it was like the END OF THE WORLD. Nevermind that this happened twice a week. *That's* not annoying. I imagine I would be on "Arafat Death Watch" if I were there now.