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To: Neeka who wrote (84745)	11/8/2004 12:14:31 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

Palestinian Leaders Out to 'Bury' Arafat, Says Furious Wife 3:11am (UK) "PA" [KLP Note: Wonder when we are going to know "the rest of the story....look at the bottom of the article...] news.scotsman.com Yasser Arafat’s wife lashed out at his top lieutenants today, accusing them of seeking to “bury” her ailing husband “alive”. In a furious call to Al-Jazeera television, which she described as “an appeal to the Palestinian people,” broadcast live by the pan-Arab network, Suha Arafat accused Palestinian officials on their way to Paris of conspiring to usurp the role her husband has held for four decades as Palestinian leader. “Let it be known to the honest Palestinian people that a bunch of those who want to inherit are coming to Paris,” she screamed in Arabic over the telephone. “You have to realise the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive,” she continued, using Arafat’s nom de guerre. “He is all right and he is going home. God is great.” She said she was calling from Arafat’s bedside at the French military hospital where he has been in intensive care since last Wednesday. A producer from Al-Jazeera told The Associated Press the station was confident it was her. Despite her insistence that Arafat was fine, French foreign minister Michel Barnier yesterday called his condition “very complex, very serious and stable right now”. Palestinians have been making contingency plans for the event of his death, and prime minister Ahmed Qureia, foreign minister Nabil Shaath and Mahmoud Abbas, the former prime minister and deputy chairman of Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation, are due to arrive in Paris today to consult his doctors and French officials. Some Palestinians have complained that Suha Arafat has gained too much power, as she controls the flow of information about Arafat’s condition and has taken charge of access to the ailing leader. “She is not part of the Palestinian leadership,” Arafat security adviser Jibril Rajoub told Israel’s Channel Two TV yesterday. Suha Arafat, who lives in Paris, has not been to the West Bank or seen her husband since the latest round of Palestinian violence began in 2000. She also is widely believed to have control of vast funds collected by the PLO.