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ARAFAT DEATH FINALLY ANNOUNCED
MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 9 November: MER reported and explained Arafat's death -- indeed his assassination by blood poisoning -- many days ago, in fact last week. This story from Reuters has just moved on the international wires this morning at 9am EST: Yasser Arafat 'Dead' - Palestinian Sources Say
PARIS (Reuters - 9:22 EST) -
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is
dead, senior Palestinian political sources said on Tuesday.
The information from sources close to Arafat could not immediately be confirmed.
"He is dead," one of the sources close to Arafat said in Paris, where Arafat has been lying in a coma at a French hospital. Officials in the West Bank said they had not been informed that Arafat was dead.
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Source: http://www.middleeast.org/articles/2004/11/1181.htm |