The hits they keep on coming...
Bush gets re-elected.
Daschle gets voted out (the first Senate Leader to have this happen)
And now,
Yasser Arafat goes into ICU at the French Hospital
(Hat tip to Charles at
LGF)
bq.
Arafat in intensive care due to sudden deterioration in health
The health of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat seriously deteriorated Wednesday night.
bq. He was placed in an intensive-care unit at the French military hospital where he is being treated.
bq. The sudden deterioration came a few hours after Leila Shahid, the Palestinians' permanent envoy to Paris, reiterated that doctors carrying out tests on Arafat in the suburb of Clamart, southwest of Paris, had ruled out leukemia or any other form of cancer and said his health was improving.
If he does not have any kind of cancer, what is wrong with him???
A reader on LGF posts
this link to a David Frumm article which may answer the question:
bq. Speaking of media bias, here’s a question you won’t hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?
bq. We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight – possibly as much as 1/3 of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?
bq. Former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Pacepa (
here and
here (scroll down)) tells in his very interesting memoirs that the Ceaucescu regime taped Arafat’s orgies with his body guards. If true, Arafat would a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world.
bq. Before airlifting Arafat to Paris, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier promised to “stand by” him. Was that why Arafat chose to be treated in France rather in any of the fraternal Arab countries that supposedly support his movement – because he could trust the French to protect his intimate secrets?
Posted by DaveH at November 3, 2004 3:18 PM