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Last Updated: Friday, November 12th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arafat to be honoured in Cairo, interred in Ramallah By Bamidele Osha Reporter, Lagos Palestinian Liberation Organisation leader, Yasser Arafat died early Thursday at the age of 75 in a French military hospital in Paris of an undisclosed ailment, but hospital sources revealed that he suffered leukemia, a blood disorder which considerably reduced his platelets. His brother and sister are said to have suffered and died in similar circumstances. Arafat was reported to have suffered a brain hemorrhage and his condition was said to have deteriorated tremendously within the last 72 hours during which the PLO chairman relapsed into coma. Named PLO chairman in 1968, Arafat emerged as the Palestinian�s supreme leader, and a man that Israel eventually came to recognize. After the Arab League pronounced the PLO the � sole legitimate representative� of the Palestinians, chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the UN while wearing a pistol. � I have come bearing an Olive branch and a freedom fighters gun,� he said. � Do not let the olive branch fall from my hands.� His death ends an era and opens a new chapter in Palestinian history and Middle Eastern politics and Palestine is left to contemplate a future without Arafat. Arafat�s remains was flown in a French airbus from the military hospital accompanied by his wife and daughter after it was accorded state rites to Cairo where world leaders would gather to honour the Palestinian leader who for the last four decades symbolized the aspirations of the Palestinian people. Arafat would be interred in the West Bank city of Ramallah which for several years served as his headquarters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright© 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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