Yasser Arafat's days appear to be numbered.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Doctors decided to fly ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Paris for treatment, as associates described a Palestinian leader who was too weak to stand Thursday, appeared confused and spent most of the day sleeping.Fifteen doctors - including Palestinians and specialists rushed in from Jordan, Tunisia and Egypt - examined the 75-year-old Arafat on Thursday and decided he would be able to get the best treatment in Paris, one of the doctors said on condition of anonymity.
If Arafat were taken to the hospital, it would highlight the severity of the health crisis and mark the first time for him to leave his battered Ramallah headquarters since he was confined there by Israel in 2002.
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Why didn't they send him to... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Baathists for Kerry | October 28, 2004 1:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Why didn't they send him to Canada where they have the best heathcare system in the world? Or, more interestingly, to Isreal? The doctors in France don't wash their hands after using the bathroom.
1. Posted by Baathists for Kerry | October 28, 2004 1:02 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:02
2. Posted by Norm Filiatrault | October 28, 2004 1:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
here is my opinion on what ails him: although the PA is claiming that he has the flu, gallstones or stroke - let me just say that it was reported previously that he suffered for years from tremors, etc. Now I had an uncle who had Parkinson`s disease - and he experienced many of the described symptoms below right before he died and they came upon him rather rapidly - in the space of a week - he went from being fine to being bedridden, lapsing in and out of consciousness, hallucinations and total loss of memory. I believe Arafat is in the final stages of Parkinson`s and there is nothing the doctors can do except wait and watch him deteriorate and die. The reason they have not moved him urgently to a hospital is that nothin there can help him. He will be dead within a week`s time. Mark my words.
2. Posted by Norm Filiatrault | October 28, 2004 1:17 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:17
3. Posted by murdoc | October 28, 2004 1:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Relax, Mr. Arafat. You're among friends, now."
3. Posted by murdoc | October 28, 2004 1:18 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:18
4. Posted by Beth | October 28, 2004 1:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
SKYNEWS (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041028/140/f5ibe.html) is reporting that he had "an exploratory operation" and then went on to say he had an endoscopy. Two things: #1- an endoscopy is not an operation- there are no incisions (stupid, nitpicky point, but still...) and #2- whatever he has, it's probably not gall stones (you can't see them with an endoscope- you'd need a sonogram of the gall bladder- maybe an Xray, but I'm not sure about that without using some sort of contrast.)
and, why Paris? Lemme guess... they have no extradition treaty with Israel... just a thought...
4. Posted by Beth | October 28, 2004 1:24 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:24
5. Posted by Jim | October 28, 2004 1:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Is anyone surprised that the "Father of Modern Terrorism" would choose an ally like France to have medical treatment.
5. Posted by Jim | October 28, 2004 1:26 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:26
6. Posted by mark m | October 28, 2004 1:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Norm, why risk it??...could be something worse. They need to crack him open and do an exploritory. It could be anything. CUT HIM!!!!
6. Posted by mark m | October 28, 2004 1:27 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:27
7. Posted by Matt | October 28, 2004 1:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Why not Cuba? He could share a semi-private room with Fidel. They have great healthcare there, you know?
7. Posted by Matt | October 28, 2004 1:32 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:32
8. Posted by George | October 28, 2004 1:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Are you saying "Arafat's days appear to be numbered"
because they sent him to France? ;-)
That is, is he going to France because his days are numbered
or are his days numbered because he is going to France?
8. Posted by George | October 28, 2004 1:32 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:32
9. Posted by Frank Martin | October 28, 2004 1:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I guess he needs a transfusion of weasel blood, Paris would be the first place Id go to fix my rodent if I had one.
I wonder what it's like to have millions people around to world praying that you dont wake up from surgery all of them ready to celebrate, champaign in hand when you croak.
Castro falls on his face, Arafat taking a dirt nap, saddam on death row, uday and qusay dead. Who says Bush isnt having a good year.?
9. Posted by Frank Martin | October 28, 2004 1:34 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:34
10. Posted by Greg Schreiber | October 28, 2004 1:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, why not Paris? Froggystan will be a Muslim majority country in about 100 years.
His wife has been living there for awhile now.
And the Frogs have a long tradition of appeasement!
10. Posted by Greg Schreiber | October 28, 2004 1:35 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:35
11. Posted by Wodinn | October 28, 2004 1:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Drudge now says that Arafat is refusing to go to Paris. Can't say I blame him there.
11. Posted by Wodinn | October 28, 2004 1:47 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 13:47
12. Posted by Beth | October 28, 2004 2:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yeah, that's what Drudge's headline reads, but... when you click on the link, it says he is going. I wish he'd make up his mind!!! Did you see the pic of him in his jammies? When did he become a blogger?
12. Posted by Beth | October 28, 2004 2:08 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 14:08
13. Posted by Roberto | October 28, 2004 2:51 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Arafat is just waiting to hear from Kerry as to the best places to stay.
13. Posted by Roberto | October 28, 2004 2:51 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 14:51
14. Posted by ProfShade | October 28, 2004 3:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This is most excellent news! Incompetent French surgeons already killed Pierre Sallinger this year.
14. Posted by ProfShade | October 28, 2004 3:52 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 15:52
15. Posted by Tig | October 28, 2004 4:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It would be the French who would be willin' to take him in, but if I was an ol' man wantin' to stay alive way past my given time, I think I would go to Cuba and use the doctors that treat Castro.
15. Posted by Tig | October 28, 2004 4:12 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 16:12
16. Posted by Tig | October 28, 2004 4:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dang it ... sometimes it pays to read the other comments before you do so. I now see someone else arrived at the Cuba thought, as well. tsk, tsk!
16. Posted by Tig | October 28, 2004 4:14 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 16:14
17. Posted by azygos | October 28, 2004 7:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I hope he doesn't die, quickly. A long drawn out painful death with inept medical care is exactly what he deserves. Stomach cancer would be nice. Make sure he has plent of IV fluids to keep him awake and in pain.
17. Posted by azygos | October 28, 2004 7:34 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 19:34
18. Posted by Matt | October 28, 2004 10:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
azygos,
Never fear. Even if he does die quickly, there's no morphine in Hell.
18. Posted by Matt | October 28, 2004 10:14 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 22:14
19. Posted by leaddog2 | October 28, 2004 10:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I read the above description of the last stages of Parkinson's disease. I know nothing about it.
I just pray that this inhuman monster, Arafat goes to his well deservved Hell soon.
19. Posted by leaddog2 | October 28, 2004 10:59 PM |
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Posted on October 28, 2004 22:59