----- Original Message ----- From: Carol Spooner To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Flash: Arafat Reported Clinically Dead (Reuters)
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> JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared
> clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said
> citing French sources.
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You are jumping the gun, Arafat's brain still lives!
"However, Arafat's personal physician, Dr. Ashraf Kurdi, told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television that "Arafat has no type of brain death." He also said a brain scan showed that Arafat had not suffered a hemorrhage or stroke."
[It was just a misunderstanding... Really!] [...] The confusion over Arafat's condition escalated after Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters at a summit of European leaders in Belgium that Arafat had died. He later retracted the statement.
"It was a misunderstanding," Luxembourg government spokesman Lucien Michels said.
After Juncker's initial statement, a spokesman for the French military hospital said Arafat was alive.
"Mr. Arafat is not dead," said Christian Estripeau, head of communications for French military health services. "The clinical situation of the first few days following admission has become more complex."
Juncker's spokesman said the prime minister spoke after receiving a phone call while driving to the summit from a journalist, who relayed an Israeli television station report that Arafat had died. [...] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arafat ================
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