“They are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive.”
— Suha Arafat, referring to the senior Palestinian officials who arrived today in Paris to visit her ailing husband, Yasser Arafat. Mr. Arafat, who has led the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and who has been both the figurehead and the political leader of the Palestinians for roughly four decades, has been sequestered in a military hospital in Paris amidst rumors that he has fallen into an irreversible coma. It is unclear who will succeed him as the next Palestinian leader.
—Mimi Hanaoka
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