Arafat Dead

[Switch84]

Yuck!

Originally posted by ODShowtime
I wish his body would have fallen out of his casket like what happened to Komeini. They would have all tried to grab and arm or leg to bring home with them. I forgot about that until some talking head reminded me this morning:





arafat

There's something very creepy about clamoring over a corpse. What do they want with it? Eat it?

FUCK!

[ODShowtime]

and yet corpses are considered "unclean" Islam is filled with so much hypocrisy

[Nickdfresh]

Re: Yuck!

Originally posted by Switch84
There's something very creepy about clamoring over a corpse. What do they want with it? Eat it?

FUCK!

The same thing happened when the Ayatollah Khomeni died in Iran. It was pretty strange watching his adoring subjects (if memory serves correct) ripping the body to shreds.

[Angel]

And you wonder why the Army runs out of bandwidth Den? Fuck you're an ignorant fucking goof, aren't you?

[ODShowtime]

dude, you are a fuckin faggot

[ODShowtime]

Arafat Buried in Chaotic Scenes in West Bank

1 hour, 56 minutes ago World - Reuters
By Diala Saadeh and Cynthia Johnston

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) was buried on Friday in chaotic scenes of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.



It was the end of an era for Israelis and Palestinians locked for decades in a conflict of which Arafat was one of the most recognized symbols, and stirred hopes for reviving Middle East peacemaking for the first time in years.

Offering condolences to the Palestinians, President Bush (news - web sites) said he saw a "great chance" for work toward lasting peace and creation of a Palestinian state. Bush had in the past shunned Arafat, branding him an "obstacle to peace."

But fears remained of an internal power struggle that could thrust Palestinian territories into chaos and block diplomacy.

Amid scenes of frenzied mourning, soil brought from the site of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site, was poured over Arafat's casket. A Palestinian flag and a black and white headdress, his trademark, were placed on the tomb of black and white marble.

"With our blood and soul we redeem you, Abu Ammar," the crowd chanted, using the nom de guerre of their leader, who fought for decades for a state he never achieved.

With Arafat's death, Palestinians lost a paternal leader whose autocratic rule and corruption-ridden administration never diminished their admiration for his struggle for independence.

I can understand. Arafat worked his whole life for a Palestinian state and died before it could ever happen. haha.

Israel put its security forces on high alert over fears that Palestinian militants, whom it says Arafat never tried to restrain, would try to steal center stage. Militants in Arafat's own Fatah movement vowed further anti-Israel attacks.


GUNFIRE AND TEARS


An Egyptian helicopter flew Arafat's coffin from Egypt, where a funeral service was held, to his Muqata headquarters in Ramallah. The aircraft was quickly engulfed by a surging crowd of thousands chanting Arafat's name.

A funeral in Egypt. There was no way in hell all those Arab leaders were going anywhere near Ramallah!

Firing into the air, Palestinian security men struggled to remove the coffin from the aircraft and then held on to it tight as they placed it on a vehicle that plied its way through a dense throng of weeping mourners.


Nine Palestinians were wounded by shots fired by the security forces or gunmen. Medics said hundreds were treated after fainting or for minor injuries during the crush.


Arafat's body had been due to lie in state, but an official said it was taken directly to the tree-shaded tomb instead because the crowd's emotions were running so high.


Arafat, a former guerrilla who became a Third World liberation icon and won a Nobel Peace Prize only to sink into renewed conflict with Israel, died at the age of 75 in a French hospital on Thursday of an undetermined illness.


Within hours of his burial, the new Palestinian leadership put out its first diplomatic feelers. "We want peace," Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat told Israeli television, appealing to the Jewish state to pull back troops from West Bank cities to allow elections for Arafat's successor.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana echoed the call, saying an Israeli withdrawal was needed to ease the way for elections the Palestinians have promised to hold in 60 days.


Israel reoccupied much of the West Bank in 2002 after a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings and has vowed to stay until Palestinians crack down on militants behind such attacks.

The chaotic scenes in Ramallah were in sharp contrast to a funeral earlier at a Cairo airbase, where the public was kept away and even some world leaders were shut out by mistake by over-zealous Egyptian guards.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, accompanied by leaders including Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, led the mourners in Cairo.

Arafat's widow Suha, who had lived apart from him for the last few years of his life, watched the procession from a black car which drove alongside. Accompanied by their 9-year-old daughter Zahwa, Suha wept at the airbase.

The United States sent a second-ranking State Department official, Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, to the Cairo ceremony in a slight attesting to its boycott of Arafat.

BUSH TAKES POSITIVE TONE

But Bush took a positive tone at a Washington news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "I believe we've got a great chance to establish a Palestinian state and I'm prepared over the next four years to spend the capital of the United States to establish such a state," Bush said.

Am I the only one having serious issues with gw's excitement to spend US capital? What all exactly constitutes capital to him? Not funny at all.

Blair, seeking a more active U.S. peacemaking role, said he and Bush wanted to mobilize the international community to help the Palestinians realize democracy.

Israel dispatched no one at all to the ceremonies for Arafat. "I do not think we should send a representative to the funeral of somebody who killed thousands of our people," Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said.

Israeli television stations broadcast wall-to-wall coverage of Arafat's last rites, but most Israelis were unmoved by the final chapter of a man they reviled as a "master terrorist."

Israeli forces surrounding Ramallah had effectively confined Arafat to the Muqata, battered by Israeli raids after suicide bombings in the Jewish state, for the past 2-1/2 years until he fell seriously ill two weeks ago and was airlifted to Paris.

Israel ruled out an Arafat grave in Arab East Jerusalem, calculating this would strengthen Palestinians' claim to a future capital in the part of the city that Israel captured in the 1967 war and annexed in a move not recognized internationally.

Palestinians have named a collective leadership comprised mainly of veteran moderates from Arafat's circle.

His interim successors will be challenged by a popular younger militant generation fed up with old guard corruption and a mood of futility in dealings with Israel, raising concern of a power vacuum that could trump any diplomacy in the near term.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said it could be a "turning point" for peace if Arafat's successors ended violence. But Sharon also said he would pursue a unilateral plan to quit Gaza and keep much of the West Bank.

(Additional reporting by Edmund Blair in Cairo, Mohammed Assadi and Wafa Amr in Ramallah, and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza)

To wrap the whole thing up, bunch of bums over there

[FORD]

Re: Yuck!

Originally posted by Switch84
There's something very creepy about clamoring over a corpse. What do they want with it? Eat it?

FUCK!

Hey, they don't have rock stars over there. They gotta go bat-shit over somebody, right?

Who knows, in a few years all the Palestinian tabloids might have stories like "Yasser seen working at Burger King in Jerusalem" or "Arafat holed up in Switzerland with JFK and Ronald Reagan!!"

[ELVIS]

Hey FORD, how do you know Arafat is dead...

Did you see the ballot, I mean, body ??

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Hey FORD, how do you know Arafat is dead...

Did you see the ballot, I mean, body ??

No, but I did see him getting on the plane when he left for France, and the dude looked like shit to me. And since Yasser was never exactly the healthiest looking guy anyway, that's saying something.

Though I doubt very much his death was natural causes. I'm thinking Mossad hit. In the interest of fairness, they should take Sharon out as well. Clean the slate entirely.

[Guitar Shark]

Originally posted by FORD
Though I doubt very much his death was natural causes. I'm thinking Mossad hit.

LOL, you never disappoint.

[Switch84]

Re: Re: Yuck!

Originally posted by FORD
Hey, they don't have rock stars over there. They gotta go bat-shit over somebody, right?

Who knows, in a few years all the Palestinian tabloids might have stories like "Yasser seen working at Burger King in Jerusalem" or "Arafat holed up in Switzerland with JFK and Ronald Reagan!!"

:D :D :D Ok, ok, that was pretty frickin' funny, Ford! LMMFAOBT!

[Cathedral]

The way those people act, It's like a bunch of fucking animals.

They have no respect for the living, much less the dead.

We should just pull out of the middle east and let them continue to be the savages they are, and with any luck they'll exterminate themselves.

I'm ready to give up my big block Mopars and drive an electric car.

Sieg Battery Acid!

[Vivian Campbell]

I'm glad that a nobody from Modesto, California knocked this pig off the headlines already.