# The Confusion About Arafat's Condition Grows

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**Created:** [November 8, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confusion-about-arafats-condition-grows/273577 "2004-11-08T03:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confusion-about-arafats-condition-grows/273577/1 "2004-11-08T03:14:10Z")

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Well, it’s not up on their site, yet, but Fox News is reporting that Arafat’s suffering from liver failure. What _is_ on their site [is that the squabbling over power has already begun.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137863,00.html)

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> In a screaming telephone call from Arafat’s hospital beside, Suha Arafat (search) 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 (search) to be with Arafat later Monday — of conspiring to usurp the role her husband has held for four decades as Palestinian leader.

Yeah, she sounds rational.

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> “You have to realize the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive,” she continued, using his nom de guerre. “He is all right and he is going home. God is great.”