NaveWeiss's Journal: Arafat is dead

Apparantly I can't find an English news source that says that Arafat is dead, so I'll just translate some of what is written in this Ynet article.

Arafat is dead. The message will be anounced this morning

An end of an era: The 75 year old leader has passed away in the capital city of France. The Palestinian Authority (PA) seniors arrived to the hospital and received the message with the wife Suha and the doctors. The Pals request to bury Arafat in the Muqat'a. The head of the Sharaic law courts in the PA, the sheich something el Tamimi, went to Paris to officially anounce the death of Arafat, probably on tomorrow morning.

Chairman of the PA, Yasser Arafat, passed away this evening (Tuesday) in the hospital in Paris, so delivered official Palestinian sources to Ynet. Arafat, 75 years old, passed away after being several days in a state of clinical death in the "Percy"(?) hospital, where he was rushed from the Muqat'a in Ramlla following a serious deterioration in his health condition.

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In addition to the sources which reported to Ynet, the Reuters agency reported from at least 5 Palestinian officials that Arafat is dead. According to one source, "He died from an brain hemorrhage during the night (between Monday and Tuesday). The bodyguards hugged, kissed and told each other to be strong".

The Palestinian minister, Nabeel Shaat, tried to negate the reports about Arafat's death, and said in a press conference in Paris that "Arafat's brain, heart and lungs are still operating and he's alive". But earlier, the secretary general of the PA, Naib Abad el-Rakhim, and the Palestinian minister, Saib Arikat, burst in tears and said that they are preparing to bury Arafat in the Muqat'a.

And here's the picture in the header of Ynet now.

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Update: (11.11.2004) Apparantly he's not dead yet, but they say his condition deteriorated even more. Do you think he'll die in time for his funeral, which is planned for tomorrow?

Stephen King, Dead at 57

[gmhowell]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details yet. I'm sure we'll all miss him, even if you weren't a fan of his work there's no denying his contribution to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

heh

[NaveWeiss]

I should have posted AC comments titled "Arafat is dying!"

Re:Stephen King, Dead at 57

[jawtheshark]

Yeah, but this one is for real ;-) As everyone knows, they just kept his body alive for a few days (wasn't it a week?) in order to sort out the political consequences. Same thing has happened with other political leaders before. No surprise here.