An ailing Yassar Arafat is in a French hospital after having been transported from Jordan, where Jordanian helicopters ferried him and aides Friday morning from his battered Mukata compound. An ailing Yassar Arafat is in a French hospital after having been transported from Jordan, where Jordanian helicopters ferried him and aides Friday morning from his battered Mukata compound in Ramallah. Thousands of French Arabs welcomed his arrival, but survivors of victims of the "father of terrorists" demanded that French authorities investigate Arafat on charges of murder. PA spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi said, "I am concerned for Arafat's life." She added that she fears a bitter succession battle, "and even anarchy." (she means the Islamic death cultists will slaughter each other over turf since they are not able to freely stroll into Israel and butcher people there.)
| That's kinda the disadvantage of having a dictatorship, isn't it? Once you've killed off or cut off anyone who could present a danger to you, you've also left it to the syncophantic remainder to fight over the Seat of All Power™ when you've shuffled off the mortal coil. But then, if you're a true dictator at heart, that sort of thing doesn't matter to you, because when you die the world stops. |