CLAMART, France - Yasser Arafat's wife said her husband is
"all right" and lashed out at his top lieutenants Monday, accusing them
of traveling to Paris with plans to "bury" him "alive." In a screaming
telephone call from Arafat's hospital bedside, Suha Arafat told
pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television that she was issuing "an appeal to the
Palestinian people." She accused his top aides, who are traveling to
Paris later Monday, of conspiring to usurp her husband's four-decade
long role 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 shouted in Arabic, in her first public comments since
Arafat fell ill a month ago. "You have to realize the size of the
conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive," she
said, using Arafat's nom de guerre. He is all right and he is going
home. God is great."
So, Yassir married a nutjob. {Gomer Pyle Voice}Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!{/Gomer
Pyle Voice}
One wonders what kind of a state Jackie Kennedy would have thrown
America into had she denied that her husband's brains had landed in her
lap.
Draw your own conclusions.