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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/6/2004 11:36:33 PM
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French, Israeli, and Egyptian officials were consulting with Arafat's family and aides to discuss potential burial sites, officials from those countries said. Though Arafat's family wants a Jerusalem burial, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ruled it out. "Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried and not Arab terrorists," Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said Friday.

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/9/2004 12:50:43 PM
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Arafat Dead, Say Palestinian Sources Amid Confusion Nov 9, 10:35 AM (ET) By Wafa Amr PARIS (Reuters) - The fate of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was mired in confusion on Tuesday as French doctors contradicted reports by senior Palestinian officials that the veteran leader had died at a Paris hospital. Several political sources said Arafat, 75, in a coma for the past six days, had succumbed to the mystery illness that led to his being flown to Paris from the West Bank on Oct. 29, thrusting his Palestinian Authority into crisis. "He is dead. It is possible they will delay the announcement," one Palestinian source said. "He died after bleeding in the brain began last night. His bodyguards started hugging and kissing and telling each other to be strong." But a spokesman for French medical services insisted Arafat was still alive, saying: "Mr. Arafat is not dead." Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told CNN from Paris that Arafat was alive and no decision has been made to take him off life-support. The flurry of conflicting reports surfaced during a visit to Paris by a delegation of three senior Palestinian officials, all seen as potential successors to Arafat, to check on the Palestinian leader despite his wife's angry objections. In four decades leading the Palestinian nationalist cause, Arafat has gone from guerrilla icon to Nobel prize-winning peacemaker to a shunned old leader facing renewed bloodshed with Israel. Arafat has been in a coma brought on by a still-undisclosed illness, with his dream of a Palestinian state unrealized, a possible succession battle brewing and the threat of chaos in Palestinian territories looming. He has been widely admired by Palestinians as the father of their struggle for statehood but was reviled by many Israelis as the face of terror. Both sides have wondered whether his death might serve as the catalyst for first real peace effort in years or plunge the region into deeper crisis. SWIFT DECLINE Arafat had been flown to the Paris military hospital from his battered West Bank headquarters where he had been effectively confined by Israel for more than two and a half years. Despite his reputation as a consummate survivor, Arafat's decline came swiftly and with little warning. Initial claims that he was suffering from a stomach ailment soon gave way to widespread reports that he had slipped into a coma and that his organs were failing. French doctors kept a tight lid on details of Arafat's condition at the behest of his wife, Suha, who engaged in a war of words with senior Palestinians officials over her virtual monopoly on information from his hospital bedside. But on Tuesday, as the officials arrived in Paris to check on Arafat, doctors said he had slipped deeper into a coma. The delegation including Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, Shaath and Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas arrived at the hospital after France hinted it was losing patience with the visit dispute. The hospital had ruled out leukemia but had not given any diagnosis of Arafat's illness. Palestinian officials said he had suffered from liver failure. All three leaders who flew into Paris on Monday are potential successors and Arafat's wife had accused them of wanting to "bury him alive." Shaath said the delegation wanted to get the full facts on Arafat. Despite the bickering, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday he was impressed by the Palestinian leaders' handling of Arafat's absence and said he hoped the "relative calm" in the region would continue. "I hope that sense of quiet and calm can be maintained and (that) it gives us something to work with," Powell told reporters on the way to Mexico. He reiterated that the United States was "ready to engage as soon as it is appropriate to engage" with the so-called road map peace plan.

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/9/2004 12:57:57 PM
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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/9/2004 6:14:35 PM
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Ashcroft, Evans Resign, White House Says WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans resigned on Tuesday in a post-election shake-up of President Bush (news - web sites)'s Cabinet. Ashcroft, a lightning rod of criticism by Democrats and civil liberties groups over the anti-terror policies implemented after Sept. 11, 2001, said in a handwritten resignation letter that "the demands of justice are both rewarding and depleting" and that the Justice Department (news - web sites) would be well served "by new leadership and fresh inspiration." Evans, considered Bush's best friend, said "I have concluded with deep regret that it is time for me to return home." "The president accepted their resignations," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. Ashcroft and Evans began what is expected to be a fairly significant Cabinet reshuffle ahead of the start of Bush's second term on Jan. 20. Health and Human Services (news - web sites) Secretary Tommy Thompson, who had earlier indicated he was planning on leaving after the first Bush term, said on Tuesday: "I'm waiting to talk

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/9/2004 6:39:55 PM
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Firms warn of new Mydoom worm McAfee says new e-mail worm spreads via Web links; Microsoft looks into the threat it poses. November 9, 2004: 12:09 PM EST NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc. is warning about a new version of the Mydoom worm that infects computers of people who click on a link in e-mail they receive. The new version is a mass-mailing worm that does not contain an attachment, as some earlier versions of the worm program have done. A worm is a self-replicating computer program that -- like a computer virus -- can cause damage to a computer's software by attaching itself to programs. Antivirus Programs Can???t Detect Spyware This program finds & destroys all spyware & adware. Free scan. www.adware-guard.com The I. T. Dept - Kent County Delaware Call on us for all your personal and business computer needs. Repairs, upgrades,... www.xinman.com The new Mydoom e-mail messages direct users to click on a link, directing them to an infected machine. Following the hyperlink results in an infection occurring on the target victim's system. The vulnerability was discovered and made public by two hackers with aliases "ned" and "SkyLined" on Friday, and only four days later a worm exploiting the weakness was developed and set loose, several virus-trackers reported. Some anti-virus companies said the new worm was different from Mydoom because it spreads via Web links and not e-mail attachments. Microsoft Corp. (Research), the maker of Explorer, the dominant Internet browser, was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later Tuesday, but the software maker could not immediately say if a patch for the new worm would be part of it. But Microsoft said consumers who had installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP were at a reduced risk. Microsoft said the worm is a variant of Mydoom and that it is investigating the threat the worm poses. Some of the e-mail transmissions appear to be from PayPal, the online payment system that is part of eBay Inc. (Research). The text of the e-mail includes the following: "Congratulations! PayPal has successfully charged $175 to your credit card. Your order tracking number is A866DEC0, and your item will be shipped within three business days. The program also harvests addresses from local files and then uses the harvested addresses in the "from" field to send itself. Some of those e-mail messages contain the following: "Hi! I am looking for new friends. "My name is Jane, I am from Miami, FL. "See my homepage with my weblog and last webcam photos! See you!" McAfee said so far it has received about 100 reports of the virus being stopped or infecting users. It raised its risk assessment on the new Mydoom virus to medium. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Reuters contributed to the story

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/14/2004 12:59:21 PM
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MAG: Arafat Skimmed $2 Million a Month From the Gas Trade Sun Nov 14 2004 09:53:40 ET New York -- Last year auditors discovered Arafat was guilty of skimming $2 million a month from the gasoline trade in the territories, TIME reports. In August 2002 international donors forced Arafat to sign over his investments to the Palestine Investment Fund, which was audited by U.S. accountants and managed by Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, a former International Monetary Fund official. After scouring corporations throughout the Arab world and bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, the auditors identified $800 million, which has been made a part of the Palestinian Authority’s official budget. “It’s the most successful financial reform in the Arab world,” Jim Prince, president of the Los Angeles–based Democracy Council and head of the audit team, tells TIME. People close to Fayyad’s investigation told TIME of Arafat’s skimming from the gas trade. Breaking the gasoline smuggling and corruption boosted the Palestinian Authority’s official treasury by $10 million a month and cut gas prices for ordinary Palestinians. “Arafat’s death means his followers may never know just how much more they may be owed,” writes TIME’s Matt Rees in “Where’s Arafat’s Money?” In the mid-1990s, Arafat controlled a financial empire worth at least $3 billion. By the time of his death, he was down to his last $1 billion, according to Israeli-intelligence estimates. Arafat wife Suha’s outburst that his successors were “trying to bury [him] alive” came after she learned that Arafat had signed over at least $800 million to the government of the Palestinian Authority two years ago, TIME reports. Top Palestinian officials say Suha wants the new chief of the P.L.O., Mahmoud Abbas, and Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei to give her money out of the P.L.O.’s party coffers. But a senior P.L.O. official tells TIME, “they’ll pay her a pension, and that’s it.” People familiar with Arafat’s finances say the Palestinian leader sent Suha $200,000 a month out of the Palestinian Authority’s budget for the Office of the President. French authorities are investigating transfers of $15 million from Swiss banks to Paris accounts in Suha’s name at the Arab Bank and at BNP Paribas Bank, a French bank, TIME reports. Senior Palestinian security officials tell TIME that Arafat also shipped money to the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Developing...

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (13899)	11/14/2004 1:05:13 PM
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France says no sign Arafat poisoned PARIS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - French Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Sunday there was no indication Yasser Arafat was poisoned, although he had no access to medical files on the death of the Palestinian leader. Arafat was flown from the West Bank to Paris on Oct. 29 suffering from stomach pains, diarrhoea and vomiting. He died in the early hours of Nov. 11 after suffering a brain haemorrhage. "Nothing in the medical dossier, it seems, has shown that he was poisoned," Douste-Blazy told Radio J. However, he stressed he had not seen the dossier itself either in his capacity as a doctor or a minister. He said doctors at the military hospital just outside Paris had done everything they could from a medical standpoint to treat 75-year-old Arafat. Rumours have been rife that he had been suffering from anything from cancer of the stomach to a rare blood disorder. Hamas militants say he was poisoned by Israel, a theory which Palestinians officials have said doctors have ruled out. But the head of the Palestinian mission in Paris, Leila Shahid, said on Saturday that poisoning was a possibility, although there was no evidence. "It's quite possible that they (Israelis) poisoned him...I cannot say that medically we have proof of that," she told Europe 1 radio. Hopes of the riddle being solved are slim. The French chief doctor who announced Arafat's death is bound by privacy laws invoked by Arafat's widow which prevent details being released. Ruling out cancer or poisoning, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said in Paris on Tuesday that doctors had not identified the illness but: "We know what it is not."