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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Terrorist Medical Watch: Depending on who's talking, Yasser Arafat is either rallying or declining further. Whatever the case (and I suspect the latter), they still "don't know" what's wrong with him:

Abu Rdeneh said final results from a battery of tests might not be available until late Wednesday or early Thursday. However, Mohammed Rashid, a close Arafat aide, said results were due Wednesday.

....Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said all types of cancer had been ruled out. Still, Israel Army Radio on Monday quoted a senior military intelligence official as saying Israel assumes Arafat suffers from either a severe viral infection or cancer.

...French physicians at the Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, gave Arafat a platelet transfusion shortly after his arrival.

He probably got some blood along with those platelets, which would certainly make him perk up a little bit. I'm still betting on cancer. I'd be surprised if he ever makes it back to Ramallah.

UPDATE: "Clinically dead"?

UPDATE II: Not yet.

posted by Sydney on 11/03/2004 07:13:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

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