Yay!!!!

Oh man, this is going to cause... something.

The devil now has a best friend. Enjoy Hell, Yasser

"he's getting better"

Franco says "Ola"!

Boobies Boobies Boobies

/Tired of talking about this crap

I think he's undead at this point.

Get out your garlic and crosses!
Sharpen your pitchforks!
Light the torches!
Storm the Mukatah!

kneejerk reactionary asswipes who do not know shiat from shinola about the middle-east rejoice in 3...2...1...

Good riddance.

Would rather be in Philadelphia.

He's not Arafat ... he's Ara-bigboned.

They better bury his head in a different country just in case.

All Hail Zombie Arafat!

First dibs on his wife.

/kidding

The guy is a HERO.
Think about it. never surrendered, gave back hope.
any means necessary.

He's going to come back to life? Hey, I think he is Jesus. Take that, Bush!

Is he dead? Yasser!

Arafat was a good man. I had the chance to have dinner with the man quite some time ago.

R.I.P.

Yeah, but who are the Nazis in the photgraph? And the BA advert to the right - with all the beds and the slogan "a good night's sleep before you arrive" - priceless.

And the world loses yet another Nobel Peace Laureate

R.I.Hell

Enjoy hell!

The only way to be sure is to either -

1. Burn him

2. Blow his head off with a shotgun

So let's just do one of those and get this over with shall we?

He's going for the resurrection trifecta.

So whens his biatch of a gold digging wife gonna join him.

/* having to fark that woman would be hell enough for any crime

CNN international just had an interview 30 mins ago with a guy who had been visiting him, some top Palestinian dude.. but he's expected to not live through the night.

/in France
//Would love to claim I have a better source than those of you stateside, beinc closer to Paris, but I'm not sure anybody has more access to sources than CNN...

OK, so I'm a young'n and I don't fully understand the ramifications of this. Can anyone (quickly) explain what exactly this means for us, and for the Middle East?

BASHTURN, EDUCATE US

Are these the same sources as the story below or different sources?

What the hell is the difference anyway?

Dead or Alive. Dead or Alive.

/Not only the name of that 80's band...

From another Reuters article:

"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."

/Cue 70's porno music

Baghdad Bob says that Arafat is fine and scheduled to play 18 holes later this afternoon. I believe him. I'm sure he's okay...

DIE DIE DIE MY DARLING!

"I think I'll go for a walk..."

Enough already! Both with the not dying thing and with the repeated threads here that keep getting modded to death. This is supposed to be Fark.com. You know, not news. Where the hell is the story about some guy drinking paint to impress his highschool sweetheart or the hunting accidents dammit?!

bashturn

Don't insult our intelligence. I'll be rejoicing once I know for certain that he's toast, and I'm more than a bit familiar with the goings-on of the Middle East.

"Can anyone (quickly) explain what exactly this means for us, and for the Middle East?"

Quickly? No. Sorry. OK, I'll try. Nutters from one side will rejoice. Nutters on the other side will get upset and try to kill the first nutters, who will respond likewise. Repeat for approximately infinity.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...can't...uh...can't get fooled again.

/got nuthin'
//won't believe it until the corpse is on the airwaves

But.. were they able to get the codes to his secret swiss bank accounts before he dies?

That is what was freaking his wife out.. she aint gunna be rich no more once the palestine thugs steal back all the money arafat originally stole..

"kneejerk reactionary asswipes who do not know shiat from shinola about the middle-east rejoice in 3...2...1..."

So what type of reaction should we expect from the Middle East? My concern is that the details of his illness and death have been so strange. How difficult could it be for doctors to determine what killed him? First it was cancer, then a blood disorder, now liver failure... I have to wonder what is being covered up.

So his wife was right about his aids trying to kill him hu?

Oh well ensuring struggle for power shall be fun, now watch this nuke!

Okay, why are you making fun of this man's passing? He is not a bad person, so his idealogy isnt what we perceive as true, but at least he fought for stuff he believed in. What have you dorks done that made an impact?
Look behind the bullshiat and you'll see he was just a man. he's never done anything to you, or even knows you exist, let him rest in peace.

Yasser Arafat
1459 - 2004


May your frog-like face forever shine brightly in the bowels of hell.

He's not only merely dead, he's really most sincerely dead.

...and CNN.com still has nothing up.

Burn in hell mofo!

The Dead Collector : Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Here's one.

The Dead Collector : That'll be ninepence.

Arafat: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector : What?

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Nothing. There's your ninepence.

Arafat : I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector : 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Yes he is.

Arafat: I'm not.

The Dead Collector : He isn't.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

Arafat : I'm getting better.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

The Dead Collector : Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

Arafat : I don't want to go on the cart.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Oh, don't be such a baby.

The Dead Collector : I can't take him.

Arafat : I feel fine.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Oh, do me a favor.

The Dead Collector : I can't.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

The Dead Collector : I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Well, when's your next round?

The Dead Collector : Thursday.

Arafat: I think I'll go for a walk.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?

Arafat: I feel happy. I feel happy.

[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Ah, thank you very much.

The Dead Collector : Not at all. See you on Thursday.

Large Man with Dead Arafat : Right.

Finally. He made Rasputin seem like a pussy.

PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!

Die you terrorist scumbag!!!! may you plug lots of hairy man ass in hell!

If he arises three days from now, that's going to give him a LOT of leverage on the whole Jerusalem dispute.

DEAD - but stable.....

BTW, if Kerry had become president, Arafat would be dead right now in some AMERICAN hospital, instead of a french one.