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[Particle Physicist]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/international/middleeast/12cnd-arafat.html?oref=login


one down...



one to go...

 

[teiresias]

more like three or four to go . . .

 

[Azih]

:shrug: any replacement to Arafat would at best have the same amount of power that Arafat did, which is to say very little.

 

[tedtropy]

[Insert Arafat-Zombie Joke Here]

 

[Particle Physicist]

more like three or four to go . . .

im talking about sharon .

 

[sc0la]

In a perfect world they both would have kicked the bucket and been placed in adjecent plots so that the resulting continuous rolling in their graves could be used to generate free electricity.

 

[Loki]

im talking about sharon .

Maybe he was too-- Sharon's quite corpulent, you know.

 

[Loki]

In a perfect world they both would have kicked the bucket and been placed in adjecent plots so that the resulting continuous rolling in their graves could be used to generate free electricity.

:lol

 

[Stele]

Is it below you to just say fat?

 

[Loki]

Is it below you to just say fat?

Are you talking to me? No, it's not "below" me (I assume you meant "beneath", btw? ), it's just a genteelism. "Fat", to my mind, is a bit harsher than "corpulent"; I was debating using "rotund", but I tend to think that should be reserved for musical maestros such as opera singers or conductors. "Fat" doesn't roll off the tongue the way "corpulent" does, plus the alliteration ("quite corpulent") lends it a certain zest. Did I think about all (or any) of this when I made the post? No, not at all-- point being, I'm sure you have better things to do than criticize my use of language. Or at least I'd like to think that you have better things to do.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

^^

Your command of the King's English is inspiring.

 

[Ripclawe]

Someone will be happy!


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1100147302168

Yasser Arafat's widow, Suha, is expected to receive a sum of $22 million a year out of the Palestinian Authority budget, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere De La Serra.


The paper said Suha reached an agreement about the money during a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO's newly elected chairman, who visited while she was staying next to her husband's bed in the French military hospital outside Paris.

It said Abbas personally promised Suha that she would receive $22 million a year to cover her expenses in Paris. The paper noted that in July Arafat transferred to his wife $11 million to cover her living costs for the first six months of the year.

Abbas and the Palestinian leadership were forced to strike the deal with Suha after she refused to allow them to visit her husband in hospital.

The Palestinian leaders reached the conclusion that it would be better to make a deal with her in order to solve the crisis surrounding Arafat's possessions and secret bank accounts.

According to Palestinian officials, the money that Suha is expected to receive will come from secret accounts held by Arafat and his cronies in various countries. They estimated that at least $4 billion were being held in these secret accounts

 

[BigJonsson]

I wonder how long until Hamas assassinates her

Fuck, that money should go to the Palestinians

 

[Mermandala]

In a perfect world they both would have kicked the bucket and been placed in adjecent plots so that the resulting continuous rolling in their graves could be used to generate free electricity.

:lol or turned into wrassling fruit for our amusement

(lemon is Arafat: stuble, headgear).

EDIT: for Loki maybe we should go with Aracorpulent.

 

[Particle Physicist]

jesus.. thats a lot of money that could be put to good use instead.. like building schools or providing aide.

 

[Ripclawe]

That's small change compared to the billions that Arafat had and now most people have no idea where it is or how to get to it.

 

[BigJonsson]

It's too bad that the militant groups will likely take over now :/

Or they can start a war with one another, that would be a-ok