Arafat is finally dead. i think

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Stormbringer wrote:Just drive a stake through his heart, cram his cake hole with garlic, and decapitate him. That'll settle the bastard.
don't forget to set him on fire just to be sure.
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Col. Crackpot wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:Just drive a stake through his heart, cram his cake hole with garlic, and decapitate him. That'll settle the bastard.
don't forget to set him on fire just to be sure.
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What? No silver?!
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Petrosjko wrote:
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Unless you're saying that both bodies are being controlled by super-intelligent cockroaches... :wink: :twisted:
Oh geez, do you work for B&B? The grand cockroach conspiracy isn't supposed to come to light until the TNG era.

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JME2 wrote:Actually, I was making reference to Team America.
Ah, haven't seen it. My bad.

Y'know, this is one of those rare occasions where I really regret our brilliant advances in medical care. Just think of how much quicker this would've been resolved if they'd been leeching and cold-dipping him...
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Latest report on the evening news. He suffered a brain hemorhage and is in a deep coma on life support. He's toast.
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aerius wrote:Latest report on the evening news. He suffered a brain hemorhage and is in a deep coma on life support. He's toast.
If he's not dead, he's a vegetable.
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Which is what was supposed to have happened last week, yet he seems to get over his Ailment Of The Day.

I won't be satisfied until I see his funeral on TV.
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I can't believe no Monty Python reference has been made yet.

I mean, I expected the Parrot skit, maybe that 'Bring out your dead' one from Holy Grail from the creative... But nothing? Come on, you guys can do better.
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I made that one in the Long live the King thread.
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/499629.html

PA plans Muqata burial for Arafat
By Arnon Regular and Ronni Singer, Haaretz Correspondents

Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath put an end Tuesday to nearly two weeks of speculation by declaring Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's life in a Paris hospital was "now in the hands of God and his doctors."
A late-night report by Itim quoted senior Palestinian sources as saying that PLO Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas - the most senior Palestinian politician after Arafat - would announce in Ramallah Wednesday morning that Arafat had died.

According to the report, Arafat was already dead as of Tuesday night, but the Palestinian leadership would make the official announcement only after Abbas returned to Ramallah from Paris, via Amman, overnight.

Arafat's bureau director, Tayeb Abdul Rahim, indicated in Ramallah Tuesday night that the Palestinian leadership had decided to turn the Muqata into a mausoleum for Arafat, making it his final resting place until circumstances allow him to be buried in Jerusalem.

Israel's security cabinet will meet Wednesday morning to discuss funeral arrangements. Sources said that Israel will not oppose a burial in Ramallah if the PA asks for it, although Israel would prefer that Arafat be buried in the Gaza Strip.

Israel informed international leaders that the Palestinians do not have sufficient forces in the West Bank to provide security for the funeral, but that political considerations overrode security considerations. According to political and defense sources, Israel cannot prevent the Palestinians from burying their leader in Palestinian areas, and will only oppose burial in Jerusalem and Abu Dis.

The cabinet will also discuss the issue of foreign leaders expected for Arafat's funeral, especially from the Arab world. The ministers will decide whether Israel should insist that any foreign dignitary arriving at the funeral will come through a land border and go through Israel security, or a special air corridor will be open for Arab leaders to arrive by helicopter from Jordan or Egypt.

Egypt, meanwhile, is offering to host a funeral service for Arafat in Cairo, a Palestinian official said Tuesday night. An envoy arrived in Ramallah late Tuesday night with the proposal, said Ahmed Subah, the deputy information minister. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak offered to hold the service for Arafat at the Arab League in Cairo, ahead of burial in Ramallah, said Subah.

At his Paris news conference, Sha'ath made clear that the doctors are unable to pinpoint the reasons for Arafat's low platelet count, which require constant blood transfusions. According to Sha'ath, tests show that Arafat's heart, lungs and brain are functioning. But doctors at the French hospital said his coma deepened overnight.

A long day of speculation and rumors climaxed in the simultaneous, coordinated news conferences in Paris and Ramallah. During the day, which began with the report of the deepening coma, there were also reports that Arafat had died, later refuted by Sha'ath.

In Paris, PLO Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas, PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia', Sha'ath, and Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Rouhi Fathi were allowed into the hospital, where Arafat's wife, Suha, greeted them warmly, said Sha'ath, only 24 hours after accusing them of conspiring to "bury alive" her husband.

Sha'ath later explained that she had been under enormous pressure, and her 4 A.M. outburst on Monday was based on a misunderstanding.

Doctors at the hospital spent two hours with the four Palestinian officials, informing them that tests had ruled out cancer or poisoning as the reason for Arafat's decline. Then the four picked Qureia to enter Arafat's room for a first-hand look at the Palestinian leader, on what they all conceded was his deathbed.

Sha'ath rejected talk of "euthanasia" saying it was contrary to the Islamic faith, and that in any case Arafat was not in any pain that needed to be alleviated. He said that Arafat had not been in a coma for years or even months, which might have required alleviating the family's suffering.

While refusing to comment on the prognosis directly, Sha'ath gave the impression that Arafat had only a few more hours to live. However he refused to discuss funeral arrangements for the rais, saying that Arafat's life was in God's hands, and it was inappropriate to talk about funeral arrangements while Arafat was still alive.

Without saying so directly, Sha'ath ruled out any recovery for the Palestinian leader. Asked about "the day after," Sha'ath spoke about the Palestinian Basic Law explicitly calling for the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council to take up the acting role of chairman and then holding elections within 60 days.

In Ramallah, however, Rahim, flanked by chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, said that "all the necessary arrangements" would be made at the Muqata, which was immediately understood to mean that the funeral would be held in the compound where Arafat had been under siege by Israel since December 2001.

Presumably, the large empty field used as a helicopter pad to lift Arafat out of Ramallah and fly him to Amman - where a flying hospital flew him to France last week could serve the large gathering of mourners expected, including many foreign statesmen.

According to Western diplomatic sources in Jerusalem, messages have been passed through diplomatic channels between Israel and the Palestinian leadership, with Israel saying it would not apply security restrictions on foreign statesmen coming to the funeral.

Israel still prefers Gaza as a better locale for the funeral, particularly since the Arafat family owns a cemetery plot there, and security would be easier to control for the Palestinians.

But the Palestinians have apparently given up trying to obtain a grave plot for Arafat on either the Temple Mount or in Abu Dis, and are now focused exclusively on Ramallah and the symbolism of a Muqata funeral.

Among the foreigners anticipated for an Arafat funeral are Libya's Moammar Gaddafi and many other Arab leaders. However reports that the funeral is slated for Ramallah have some worried about security.
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Latest report on Reuters. He's dead but they deny he's dead, and funeral arrangements are being made for Thursday and the burial takes place on Friday.

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Confusion Over Arafat, Palestinians Prepare Burial
Tue Nov 9, 2004 09:43 PM ET

By Wafa Amr

PARIS (Reuters) - Palestinians looked to their leadership to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat's fate in a French hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the icon of the fight for a state. Arafat, 75, suffered a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday at the hospital where he was flown from the West Bank on Oct. 29 and had lain in a coma. Officials insisted in public that he was alive, though aides said privately that he was dead.

In four decades leading the Palestinian nationalist cause, Arafat has gone from guerrilla to Nobel prize-winning peacemaker to a shunned old leader facing renewed bloodshed with Israel.

His dream of a Palestinian state remains unrealized, a possible succession battle is brewing and the threat of chaos in Palestinian territories is looming.

He has been widely admired by Palestinians as the father of their struggle for statehood but was reviled by many Israelis as the face of terror.

Nonetheless, both sides have wondered whether his death might serve as the catalyst for the first real peace effort in years or plunge the region into deeper crisis.

Palestinian sources said leaders were awaiting a senior Muslim cleric to give the go-ahead to disconnect life-support machines at the military hospital in Paris where Arafat lapsed into a coma last week.

"Is he dead or not dead?" said Ali Zaituna in the Gaza Strip. "We will only believe it when a Palestinian official appears and says it."

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A delegation of three senior leaders returned to the West Bank from Paris early on Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement after 4 a.m. EST on Arafat's condition and plans for the future.

Officials said it was likely that a funeral would be held in Cairo followed by a burial in Ramallah at the shell-battered "Muqata" compound where Arafat had been effectively confined by Israeli troops for 2-1/2 years.

After ruling out the burial in the holy city of Jerusalem that Arafat wanted, Israeli officials had said they wanted him interred in the Gaza Strip. But political sources said they might lift objections to Ramallah.

Workers installed extra communications links at the Muqata to be able to beam pictures worldwide.

"We are not sure about the day of burial, but I was told most likely on Friday," said one Palestinian official who did not want to be named. "The body might be flown to Egypt on Thursday."

Despite his reputation as a consummate survivor, Arafat's decline came swiftly and with little warning.

Initial claims that he was suffering from a stomach ailment soon gave way to widespread reports that he had slipped into a coma and that his organs were failing.

French doctors kept a tight lid on details of Arafat's condition at the behest of his wife, Suha, who engaged in a war of words with senior Palestinians officials over her virtual monopoly on information from his hospital bedside.

Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie saw Arafat on Tuesday. The other members of the delegation, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas, were unable to.

Most of Arafat's powers have been take over by Qurie and Abbas, both leading moderates. Arafat's death would call for parliament speaker Rawhi Fattouh to assume the presidency in a caretaker capacity for 60 days until elections could be held.

(Additional reporting by Mohammed Assadi and Diala Saadeh in Ramallah, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza)
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What happens if they bury him and he resurrects after three days?
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fgalkin wrote:He's dead! He's not dead! He's dead! He's not dead! He's dead! He's not dead, I say! And I say he's dead! And I say he's not! When I say he's dead, I mean he's dead! *shoots comatose Arafat* He's still not dead. It's all evil Zionist imperialist propaganda! Oh, there are no Americans in Baghdad, too!

Have a very nice day.
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this just in Arafat reviealed to be the son of Rasputian...
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The Yosemite Bear wrote:
fgalkin wrote:He's dead! He's not dead! He's dead! He's not dead! He's dead! He's not dead, I say! And I say he's dead! And I say he's not! When I say he's dead, I mean he's dead! *shoots comatose Arafat* He's still not dead. It's all evil Zionist imperialist propaganda! Oh, there are no Americans in Baghdad, too!

Have a very nice day.
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this just in Arafat reviealed to be the son of Rasputian...
Ok, so now all we need to do is shoot him a few times, tie him up, attach some lead weights, and find a convenient icy river to dump him into. Is it winter in Russia yet?
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Screw it get me a nice ax. No human and few inhumans survivie being chopped into 6 or 7 seperate pieces. We can bury one in Gaza, one in Egypt...
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Colonel Olrik wrote:What happens if they bury him and he resurrects after three days?

in that case he forfeits his un-deflowered virgins.
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GeneralTacticus wrote:Ok, so now all we need to do is shoot him a few times, tie him up, attach some lead weights, and find a convenient icy river to dump him into. Is it winter in Russia yet?
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Running on CBS right now, it is confirmed.
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Arafat finally dead... ; ;
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So everyone who had today in the pool is still good by at least an hour.
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Ding Dong the bitch is dead!
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Chris OFarrell wrote:Ding Dong the bitch is dead!

what Sir Elton is gone too?
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New thread on his actual death. This one gets locked.
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