New Game

[Gonz]

Is he or isn't he?

The rules are simple...look at Yassir Arafat & determine whether or not you should take over the PLO now, or later.

one hour ago

"He is dead," a senior political source close to Arafat told Reuters in Paris, where the 75-year-old leader has been lying in a coma at a French military hospital.


Asked to confirm Arafat's death, another official close to the president said: "Yes, he is dead. There will be an announcement soon."

Twenty minutes ago

PARIS (Reuters) - Yasser Arafat is alive in a French hospital and no decision has been made to take him off life-support, a Palestinian cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

oops...my mistake. I didn't read the source of the he's alive statement.

"His state has worsened last night but there is no sign of ... death of any of his vital parts," Nabil Shaath told CNN from Paris. "We are not really believers in euthanasia ... It is out of the question that anyone will take any decision regarding life-support for him."

 

[Leslie]

seems to me he's gotta be brain dead but announcing that officially would incite a mondo power struggle/panic so it's being kept down until 'whoever' figures out 'whatever'.

 

[Leslie]

More articles than not seem to be saying that he actually is this time.
Interestin'.


someone on Fark has pointed out that it's 11/9.

 

[MrBishop]

He ain't going to be 'dead' until they can shake out of him where the hell he's hidden that billion$'s that he supposedly has