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To: Brumar89 who wrote (448)	1/13/2002 12:46:55 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

thanks for the info, Brumar. Why do you say that Arafat is related to the Mufti? He isn't. True, Arafat has dropped hints and rumors to this effect, but it's all nonsense. If Arafat really had those bloodlines, you'd have heard him shouting it from the rooftops all these years -- bloodlines are a big deal in that part of the world! Arafat doesn't have any. He wasn't even born in Palestine, but in Cairo, though naturally he's lied about this as well. That's one reason he never permitted Faisal Husseini, the Mufti's nephew, into the PA proper (Husseini was in the PLO); Arafat was afraid of being overshadowed by the Husseini prominence. I imagine a similar calculus goes on with Sari Nusseibeh, Faisal Husseini's replacement, also from a prominent Jerusalem family.