Well, he may have died from "poisoned fruit".
Maybe a pearl-like fruit.
Maybe he OD'd on pearl jam.
Too much love can kill you.

Maybe he just trembled himself into an early grave. Everytime i saw him on telly, he was positively vibrating. That's gotta take a toll...

Posted by: Animus Fox at January 22, 2006 8:12 AM

Nothing new here, just the usual and deliberate misnformation that is fed to the ignorant and naive. Assad Saying Israel killed Arafat is a bit provocative, but hundreds of thousands will end up believing it, mostly because they simply want to find just one more reason to hate Israel.

Try as we will year after, most leaders of Islamic countries are hell bent on derailing any peaceful policy with Israel.

Posted by: Mackie at January 22, 2006 8:58 AM

Hmm. Junior Assad meets with Ahmadinejad. The president of Syria starts shooting off his mouth like that of Iran. Coincidience?

Assad must be sensing that he's in a very weak position (doesn't strike one as much of an alpha-male to begin with), with the Hariri scandal added to the pressure over Syria's usual dealings with terrorists.

In that situation, he seems to be reaching out for support in the form of a political father figure in lieu of the late, elder Assad.

He may also be interested in making a deal to crash at Mahmoud's place in the event that, say, the Syrian Army tired of having their Baath regime depending increasingly on Iranian mullahs.

Posted by: Shinoliite at January 22, 2006 9:00 AM

Sounds plausible to me - after all here is the reference (wink wink, nudge nudge as Python would say):

"Commander of Arafat's Presidential Guard Munir Al-Zu'bi: Arafat May Have Been Poisoned by a Laser Beam, a Handshake, or a Kiss"

http://memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=810

Posted by: johnb at January 22, 2006 9:14 AM

Another nickel and dime operator trying to make like he's big time

Posted by: Balrog at January 22, 2006 9:45 AM

The saddest thing for me about all this is the fact that Israel didn't kill Arafat.

Posted by: Shy Guy at January 22, 2006 10:02 AM

Is this the best thing that Syria and Iran could come up with?? ROTFL ROTFL!!

WEAK WEAK AS WATER!!

Remember how the palis wouldn't even touch the guy??

Is he saying that the French are hidding something??

Love what a Genral Told the Press couple of weeks ago. Seams they the Press just couldn't get IT about the Syrian border with Iraq and the islamic terrorist Syria was sending in to kill the Iraqi people?
Press asked 5 different Q?s HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY AINT COMING BACK???

And 5 times he answered but, they just couldn't get it they are stuck on stupid.

Finnaly the Genral had to get blunt with the press [STUCK ON STUPID] Because they are DEAD!!!!

No wonder Cspan is haveing a hard time showing the Military Breifings because they don't want the American People to see how STUPID THE MSM IS!!!!!!

A MUST READ AND PASS IT ON!!
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm

January 16, 1997
Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base

Self-Inflicted Atrocities
Almost since the beginning of the Bosnian war in the spring of 1992, there have been persistent reports -- readily found in the European media but little reported in the United States -- that civilian deaths in Muslim-held Sarajevo attributed to the Bosnian Serb Army were in some cases actually inflicted by operatives of the Izetbegovic regime in an (ultimately successful) effort to secure American intervention on Sarajevo's behalf. These allegations include instances of sniping at civilians as well as three major explosions, attributed to Serbian mortar fire, that claimed the lives of dozens of people and, in each case, resulted in the international community's taking measures against the Muslims' Serb enemies. (The three explosions were: (1) the May 27, 1992, "breadline massacre," which was reported to have killed 16 people and which resulted in economic sanctions on the Bosnian Serbs and rump Yugoslavia; (2) the February 5, 1994, Markale "market massacre," killing 68 and resulting in selective NATO air strikes and an ultimatum to the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from the area near Sarajevo; and (3) the August 28, 1995 "second market massacre," killing 37 and resulting in large-scale NATO air strikes, eventually leading to the Dayton agreement and the deployment of IFOR.) When she was asked about such allegations (with respect to the February 1994 explosion) then-U.N. Ambassador and current Secretary of State-designate Madeleine Albright, in a stunning non sequitur, said: "It's very hard to believe any country would do this to their own people, and therefore, although we do not exactly know what the facts are, it would seem to us that the Serbs are the ones that probably have a great deal of responsibility." ["Senior official admits to secret U.N. report on Sarajevo massacre," Deutsch Presse-Agentur, 6/6/96, emphasis added]
The fact that such a contention is difficult to believe does not mean it is not true. Not only did the incidents lead to the result desired by Sarajevo (Western action against the Bosnian Serbs), their staging by the Muslims would be entirely in keeping with the moral outlook of Islamic radicalism, which has long accepted the deaths of innocent (including Muslim) bystanders killed in terrorist actions. According to a noted analyst: "The dictum that the end justifies the means is adopted by all fundamentalist organizations in their strategies for achieving political power and imposing on society their own view of Islam. What is important in every action is its niy'yah, its motive. No means need be spared in the service of Islam as long as one takes action with a pure niy'yah." [Amir Taheri, Holy Terror, Bethesda, MD, 1987] With the evidence that the Sarajevo leadership does in fact have a fundamentalist outlook, it is unwarranted to dismiss cavalierly the possibility of Muslim responsibility. Among some of the reports:
Sniping: "French peacekeeping troops in the United Nations unit trying to curtail Bosnian Serb sniping at civilians in Sarajevo have concluded that until mid-June some gunfire also came from Government soldiers deliberately shooting at their own civilians. After what it called a 'definitive' investigation, a French marine unit that patrols against snipers said it traced sniper fire to a building normally occupied by Bosnian [i.e., Muslim] soldiers and other security forces. A senior French officer said, 'We find it almost impossible to believe, but we are sure that it is true.'" ["Investigation Concludes Bosnian Government Snipers Shot at Civilians," New York Times, 8/1/95]
The 1992 "Breadline Massacre": "United Nations officials and senior Western military officers believe some of the worst killings in Sarajevo, including the massacre of at least 16 people in a bread queue, were carried out by the city's mainly Muslim defenders -- not Serb besiegers -- as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military intervention. . . . Classified reports to the UN force commander, General Satish Nambiar, concluded . . . that Bosnian forces loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic may have detonated a bomb. 'We believe it was a command-detonated explosion, probably in a can,' a UN official said then. 'The large impact which is there now is not necessarily similar or anywhere near as large as we came to expect with a mortar round landing on a paved surface." ["Muslims 'slaughter their own people'," (London) The Independent, 8/22/92] "Our people tell us there were a number of things that didn't fit. The street had been blocked off just before the incident. Once the crowd was let in and had lined up, the media appeared but kept their distance. The attack took place, and the media were immediately on the scene." [Major General Lewis MacKenzie, Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo, Vancouver, BC, 1993, pages 193-4; Gen. MacKenzie, a Canadian, had been commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Sarajevo.]
The 1994 Markale "Market Massacre": "French television reported last night that the United Nations investigation into the market-place bombing in Sarajevo two weeks ago had established beyond doubt that the mortar shell that killed 68 people was fired from inside Bosnian [Muslim] lines." ["UN tracks source of fatal shell," (London) The Times, 2/19/94] "For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Moslems for the February 1994 massacre of Moslems at a Sarajevo market. . . . After studying the crater left by the mortar shell and the distribution of shrapnel, the report concluded that the shell was fired from behind Moslem lines." The report, however, was kept secret; the context of the wire story implies that U.S. Ambasador Albright may have been involved in its suppression. [DPA, 6/6/96] For a fuller discussion of the conflicting claims, see "Anatomy of a massacre," Foreign Policy, 12/22/94, by David Binder; Binder, a veteran New York Times reporter in Yugoslavia, had access to the suppressed report. Bodansky categorically states that the bomb "was actually a special charge designed and built with help from HizbAllah ["Party of God," a Beirut-based pro-Iranian terror group] experts and then most likely dropped from a nearby rooftop onto the crowd of shoppers. Video cameras at the ready recorded this expertly-staged spectacle of gore, while dozens of corpses of Bosnian Muslim troops killed in action (exchanged the day before in a 'body swap' with the Serbs) were paraded in front of cameras to raise the casualty counts." [Offensive in the Balkans, page 62]
The 1995 "Second Market Massacre": "British ammunition experts serving with the United Nations in Sarajevo have challenged key 'evidence' of the Serbian atrocity that triggered the devastating Nato bombing campaign which turned the tide of the Bosnian war." The Britons' analysis was confirmed by French analysts but their findings were "dismissed" by "a senior American officer" at U.N. headquarters in Sarajevo. ["Serbs 'not guilty' of massacre: Experts warned US that mortar was Bosnian," (London) The Times, 10/1/95] A "crucial U.N. report [stating Serb responsibility for] the market massacre is a classified secret, but four specialists -- a Russian, a Canadian and two Americans -- have raised serious doubts about its conclusion, suggesting instead that the mortar was fired not by the Serbs but by Bosnian government forces." A Canadian officer "added that he and fellow Canadian officers in Bosnia were 'convinced that the Muslim government dropped both the February 5, 1994, and the August 28, 1995, mortar shells on the Sarajevo markets.'" An unidentified U.S. official "contends that the available evidence suggests either 'the shell was fired at a very low trajectory, which means a range of a few hundred yards -- therefore under [Sarajevo] government control,' or 'a mortar shell converted into a bomb was dropped from a nearby roof into the crowd.'" ["Bosnia's bombers," The Nation, 10/2/95]. At least some high-ranking French and perhaps other Western officials believed the Muslims responsible; after having received that account from government ministers and two generals, French magazine editor Jean Daniel put the question directly to Prime Minister Edouard Balladur: "'They [i.e., the Muslims] have committed this carnage on their own people?' I exclaimed in consternation. 'Yes,' confirmed the Prime Minister without hesitation, 'but at least they have forced NATO to intervene.'" ["No more lies about Bosnia," Le Nouvel Observateur, 8/31/95, translated in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, January 1997]
Suppression of Enemies
As might be expected, one manifestation of the radical Islamic orientation of the Izetbegovic government is increasing curtailment of the freedoms of the remaining non-Muslims (Croats and Serbs) in the Muslim-held zone. While there are similar pressures on minorities in the Serb- and Croat-held parts of Bosnia, in the Muslim zone they have a distinct Islamic flavor. For example, during the 1996-1997 Christmas and New Year holiday season, Muslim militants attempted to intimidate not only Muslims but Christians from engaging in what had become common holiday practices, such as gift-giving, putting up Christmas or New Year's trees, and playing the local Santa Claus figure, Grandfather Frost (Deda Mraz). ["The Holiday, All Wrapped Up; Bosnian Muslims Take Sides Over Santa," Washington Post, 12/26/96] In general:
"Even in Sarajevo itself, always portrayed as the most prominent multi-national community in Bosnia, pressure, both psychological and real, is impelling non-Bosniaks [i.e., non-Muslims] to leave. Some measures are indirect, such as attempts to ban the sale of pork and the growing predominance of [Bosniak] street names. Other measures are deliberate efforts to apply pressure. Examples include various means to make non-Bosniaks leave the city. Similar pressures, often with more violent expression and occasionally with overt official participation, are being used throughout Bosnia." ["Bosnia's Security and U.S. Policy in the Next Phase: A Policy Paper, International Research and Exchanges Board, November 1996]
In addition, President Izetbegovic's party, the SDA, has launched politically-motivated attacks on moderate Muslims both within the SDA and in rival parties. For example, in the summer of 1996 former Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic, (a Muslim, and son of the former imam at the main Sarajevo mosque) was set upon and beaten by SDA militants. Silajdzic claimed Izetbegovic himself was behind the attacks. [NYT, 9/2/96] Irfan Mustafic, a Muslim who co-founded the SDA, is a member of the Bosnian parliament and was president of the SDA's executive council in Srebrenica when it fell to Bosnian Serb forces; he was taken prisoner but later released. Because of several policy disagreements with Izetbegovic and his close associates, Mustafic was shot and seriously wounded in Srebrenica by Izetbegovic loyalists. [(Sarajevo) Slobodna Bosna, 7/14/96] Finally, one incident sums up both the ruthlessness of the Sarajevo establishment in dealing with their enemies as well as their international radical links:
"A special Bosnian army unit headed by Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosnian president's son, murdered a Bosnian general found shot to death in Belgium last week, a Croatian newspaper reported . . . citing well-informed sources. The Vjesnik newspaper, controlled by the government, said the assassination of Yusuf Prazina was carried out by five members of a commando unit called 'Delta' and headed by Ismet Bajramovic also known as Celo. The paper said that three members of the Syrian-backed Palestinian movement Saika had Prazina under surveillance for three weeks before one of them, acting as an arms dealer, lured him into a trap in a car park along the main highway between Liege in eastern Belgium and the German border town of Aachen. Prazina, 30, nicknamed Yuka, went missing early last month. He was found Saturday with two bullet holes to the head. 'The necessary logistical means to carry out the operation were provided by Bakir Izetbegovic, son of Alija Izetbegovic, who left Sarajevo more than six months ago,' Vjesnik said. It added that Bakir Izetbegovic 'often travels between Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt, Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara, by using Iraqi and Pakistani passports,' and was in Belgium at the time of the assassination. Hasan Cengic, head of logistics for the army in Bosnia-Hercegovina, was 'personally involved in the assassination of Yuka Prazina,' the paper said." [Agence France Presse, 1/5/94]

AND KNOWING ALL THIS HE STILL TOOK US INTO KOSOVO TO COVER UP WHAT THE COX REPORT??

And why are the Press not talking about the Chinese Spys Arrested in Calf??

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GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER [YES EVEN THE FRENCH]GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT THIS EVIL AMEN

Posted by: Catherine at January 22, 2006 10:37 AM

Honestly, if Israel wanted to kill Arafat, they wouldn't have waited that long.

Posted by: A.G.Frederick III at January 22, 2006 10:46 AM

Aids had Arafat killed.

Posted by: DCWatson at January 22, 2006 10:50 AM

"Honestly, if Israel wanted to kill Arafat, they wouldn't have waited that long."

You're assuming the propaganda was intended for logical people.

Posted by: Benjamin at January 22, 2006 10:55 AM

He had to come up with something. After all, we gave them Gush Katif, and Hevron is next according to Olmert, yemach sh'mo. How would it look if the rest of the world started thinking that maybe Israel is trying to be reasonable?

Posted by: libbysmom at January 22, 2006 11:39 AM

Obviously, not soon enough!

Posted by: David England at January 22, 2006 11:39 AM

If Irael had killed him, he would have been on the receiving end of a Hellfire Missile. Israel has a pretty good record of getting who they aim for.
http://www.militaryconnections.com/weapons_missiles.cfm

Posted by: Carolyn2 at January 22, 2006 11:45 AM

Here is one proof...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Ahmed_Yassin

Posted by: Carolyn2 at January 22, 2006 11:50 AM

Assad son, like Assad father, is surrounded by a palace guard of Alawites and Christians. Assad the father had an Armenian chauffeur, and an Armenian taster for his food. The idea of poisoning food, something we associate with nearly-mythic Mithridates, immortalized by Housman, and mysterious aqua tofana in mysterious Renaissance Venice, turns out to be an everyday matter for matter-of-fact Middle Eastern courts, and courtiers. How many people in Saudi Arabia are "tasters" for assorted Al-Saud family members would be fun to guess at. Saddam Hussein had his own Christian tasters, chauffeurs, and such -- they have subseuqently been entrusted with the same tasks by the Americans in the Green Zone.

So the notion comes naturally to baby Assad. He really should consider how he can best survive. It would not take much for the American air force to inflict embarrassing damage on his military, so much so that then, smelling blood, not only he and his quasi-westernized wife, but his entire family, his associates, and every Alawite village and town-quarter in Syria, would be attacked by Muslim wolves. Khaddam, who stole tens of millions over decades as the second assume the attitude of one who can take the corruption no longer, though he -- Khaddam -- was up to his neck in it for 30 years at least -- and, smelling blood, wait to return; his betrayal -- that of one of the very few "real" (i.e. non-Alawite) Muslims represented in the inner circle -- damages the regime internally in ways not sufficiently comprehended.

Assad is not thinking clearly. He's panicking. The Americans do not want to overthrow the Alawite dictatorship if they can help it. At this point they've begun to understand the Middle East a little bit better, after the tarbaby fiasco in Iraq. They would like the Christians in Syria to be protected, and onlythe Alawites can do it from within. They won't be doing any mass-upsets any time soon. But that doesn't mean that they will refrain from punishing the Alawite regime of this particular Alawite (he's not the only oyster in the stew, as Fats Waller once advised), by destroyingthe Assad regime's ability to project force beyond that needed to suppress, locally, Muslim revolts. In other words, no ability to interfere in Lebanon, no more support for Hezbollah or terrorists inside Israel, only the ability to keep Muslims down - and Alawites and Christians safe --within Syria itself. Assad is dispensable, but there are other Alawite officers who may take the American hint -- if the hint is given, a little more clearly, in the first place.

Really, Assad should accept the implicit deal, he's being offered. If he doesn't, he's making a mistake.

Posted by: Hugh at January 22, 2006 12:11 PM

Catherine, I'm glad you're back.

Posted by: the poetess at January 22, 2006 12:23 PM

"Commander of Arafat's Presidential Guard Munir Al-Zu'bi: Arafat May Have Been Poisoned by a Laser Beam..."

If they really believe that, they better exchange their checkered scarves for tinfoil ones.

Posted by: Shinoliite at January 22, 2006 12:50 PM

Simple. Do an autopsy. That will prove what killed old Yasser. However muslims will never permit that because they know that he really died from AIDS and that would hurt his image in the Arab world. Much better to make the mindless muslim masses believe the Jews killed him. That way he is seen as a martyr and they promote more hate against Israel.

Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at January 22, 2006 1:01 PM

Catherine, I'm glad you're back.

Posted by: the poetess at January 22, 2006 12:23 PM

Thanks Me to I guess??

THE ONLY BAD THING ABOUT SNOW SKIING IS NOT WEARING SHORT SKIRTS MY TIGHTS ARE JUST NOT WARM ENOUGH.

ALTHOUGH IN FRONT OF THE FIRE WITH SOME GLUEVINE WORKS JUST FINE.

I hear hamas is going to win does this make the Palis a terrorist state now sence the USA has declaired them a Terrorist group?? WILL OUR POLIES HAVE THE BALLS TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE??

Is this Treason??

Yes this is self admited??

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/367wlqji.asp
The strangest episode came from an appearance by Senator Jay Rockefeller on Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: OK. Senator Rockefeller, the president says that Democratic critics, like you, looked at pre-war intelligence and came to the same conclusion that he did. In fact, looking back at the speech that you gave in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let's watch:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller?
ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11. [emphasis added]
What was the second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee doing in Syria, a country which perennially finds itself among the top listings of terrorist-sponsoring nations, discussing President Bush's decision-making on the war on terror with Bashar Assad, one of the worst sponsors of terror in the months after 9/11?

A GOOD READ AND WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO PUT HIM IN JAIL???

WHO AGAIN WHO SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE NOT A DANGER TO THE SAFTY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHEN IS THE SENATE GOING TO FIND OUT AND EXPOSE THE LEAKER OF CLASSIFIED INFO ABOUT PRISONS?
If it is McCain put him in jail too!!!!!
Give the people open hearings on ABLE DANGER!!! Call Sandy Burger [PLEADED GUILTY TO STUFFING HIS PANTS WITH CLASSIFIED PAPERS] to testify find out what he destroyed!!!!

OH YEA HOW DID McCAIN VOTE ON DRILLING IN ANWAR??

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Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN

PS
Still LOL about this is all they could come up with

WEAK AS WATER!!

Wonder what Russia will do about Iran Taken out their Oil Pipeline??

So far we aint seen that much Have they gone over to the Dark side of being Complete Dimmis??

Posted by: Catherine at January 22, 2006 1:18 PM

What alot of people aren't saying about Arafat's death is that we know for a fact he dabbled in gay sex, as many wealthy Arabs do -- ah, what a stellar culture......
It may well have been AIDS that killed him.

Posted by: templar at January 22, 2006 2:55 PM

This little Syrian godfather, Assad Jr. sounds more like Lady Macbeth, haunted by his own crime of killing the former Lebanese leader, Hariri, neatly blown up on the streets of Beirut this past February, and resulting in a glorious strategic withdrawal by the Syrian Army. And Assad, II now casts the 'invisible' blood onto others, demonstrating the inexorable nature of the psychotic paradigm unravelling.

Arafat died of the same thing Mohammad (pb&j) did.

His madness.

Posted by: profitsbeard at January 22, 2006 3:21 PM

Templar-- got a link on that? Do tell!

I also have read (though I forget where) that he had cirhossis of the liver, and, alcohol-related or not (it's possible, though rare, to have a non-alcohol-related case), the docs wanted to spare his family the rumors.

Posted by: Shinoliite at January 22, 2006 4:59 PM

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=13§ion=0&article=65814&d=23&m=6&y=2005
Child Molestation — a Serious Approach Needed
Nahid Bashatah • Al-Riyadh

According to an online newspaper, one quarter of Saudi children have been molested at least once during their lives. The paper, Al-Wifaq, said that 62 percent of the victims refused to identify the molesters while 6.16 percent said the molestation was done by relatives or individuals who had close contact with the child’s family.
The newspaper based its information on a study done by a Saudi professor; it was conducted in three of the Kingdom’s regions and included college students as well as other groups in society.
These figures should not come as a surprise nor should they frighten us. We are not a society of angels and crime is not a new phenomenon in human history; it has been present since the creation of man and no society is free of it. What is most important here is not the statistics but the fact that action is being taken to address the problem.
The Ministry of Social Affairs has recently set up a special department for social protection and provided free telephone lines for people to call when they feel they need protection. These are good signs and will pave the way for a more serious approach to finding a solution to the problem.
It is true our hospitals have special child protection units but these have failed to provide protection to children once the child is claimed by parents or relatives. In some cases, the parents and relatives are the ones who molested the child.

Posted by: Catherine at January 22, 2006 5:05 PM

It was AIDS that done him in all right. TV in Israel reported that yasser a's doctor said [before he went to France for treatment] that he had a high white cell count and low red cell count. That is typical of AIDS. But of course his old flunkies like the one mentioned above, his former taster and general factotum, don't want to admit that. BTW, he died on 11-4-2004. In the evening of that day, I heard Radio Monte Carlo report that he was in a state of "mort cerebrale." That is, he was brain dead. But brain dead is dead dead. Nevertheless, loving widow Suha who lived in gaie Paris while darling gay hubby lived in Gaza and Ramallah, held up announcement of the death [which she apparently could do under French law] in order to squeeze a few spare millions out of hubby's circle of male flunkies in order to provide for her continued sojourning in Paris' Hotel Bristol. She didn't allow announcement of death until 11-11-2004.
Assad Junior is obviously trying to shift attention from his own guilt in the Hariri murder and many other murders in Lebanon. He always wants to justify ahmadeviljad's anti-Israel agitation.

Posted by: Eliyahu at January 22, 2006 5:07 PM

To be frank Assad did us a favour by taking out Hariri. We killed two birds with one stone. Got rid of the biggest thief in middle East History(hariri) and forced the Syrian opressors to leave.

As for Hugh's post above I am in total agreement sufficed to say that Assad and his pappy have so marginalised their own allawite clan so as to stay in power that I think the allawitee might lend a hand in decapitating his regime when the time comes. The allawites in Syria have, for the last 4 decades suffered equally under assad(s). His day will come!

Posted by: Shunkleash at January 22, 2006 5:37 PM

If all muslims with aids and those who are hiv positive suddenly dropped dead any guesses as to how many dead muzzies there would be?

Posted by: fireangel at January 22, 2006 7:26 PM

if they really want the world to know how Aarafat diet, just disclose the atopsy, he is rumored to have had aids. which would be a most disgusting wayto go in the muslilm world. as far as little Assad, he would best make a deal with the west, and create more strain with the wacko iranians who want to kill him anyway.. he is in the way of their pure muslim faith..so any Assad flunkies coming to this website, get a brain and open up to the west.. or go down with the help of iranian fiends!

Posted by: Lulu at January 23, 2006 12:27 AM

Goodkarma: They train their own children to hate and to die.....of what possible use on this planet are they?

Well they obviously have 'bad' karma dont they. There are some naturally mean and ugly muslims, there are others who are not ugly and not mean. What they have in common is the Quran and Mohammads demon Allah. Those toxins have poisoned the pretty and the ugly alike. The ugly got uglier and the pretty got warts all over them. Both kinds post here. Naseem is an example of a pretty with warts. The ugly ones are easy to spot. They are all equally 'obligated' to support and participate in jihad. Naseem cant hide her warts, no matter how hard she tries. The rest of them are in the same boat. The only real cure for this, is to kill Allah and the Quran, and discredit Mohammad in the process.
In theory, this should be easy to do since Islam is a house of cards waiting for the winds of truth to blow it over. But, because millions of people have been uglyfied, and believe Allah to be God(false) and The Quran his word (final), this is not an easy task.
Allah hates the guts of certain people, mostly Jews, Christians, Hindus , Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Taoists, Greek orthos, Eskimo totum worshippers, occultists of all types, every single non believer (in him), atheists, polytheists, and white people in general. For them, he has a severe punishment. Put the Allahic concept of predestination in that mix and you got a real toxic brew.
It would be nice if the winds of truth could , by itself, knock down Islams house of cards, but it may come to pass where it is necessary to kick it apart. You can bet the uglies will defend it, they are defending it now...

Posted by: duh_swami at January 23, 2006 10:19 AM

Okay, Iarael had Arafat killed. And the point is?

Posted by: Ironman Hondo at January 23, 2006 12:19 PM

Meanwhile, you hear no one blaming Rabin's assassination and Sharon's illness on Arabs or Muslims. Yet surely, planting evidence to implicate them would've been child's play for the "evil Jewish conspirators bent on taking over the Islamic world".

In their dependence on conspiracy theories to govern their societies, the Arab world should indeed wonder why few take them seriously.

Posted by: yadayada at January 23, 2006 4:01 PM

Oh, Boo Hoo Hoo!

Gee, I'm all broken up about that!!!

Boo hoo hoo!

Personally, I think Arafat croaked from not having taken a bath in thirty or so years...

Posted by: pythagoras at January 23, 2006 7:22 PM

for those conversant in French, here is an account by an Arab doctor of yasser a's state during that enchanted week between 11-4-2004 and 11-11-2004, when yasser and his entourage --led of course by loving wife suha-- proved that a creature can be dead and alive at the same time. In a way, I'm kind of glad that assad junior brought up yasser's death again. It's such a juicy subject. The events of that week brought my family together. My wife and I, belonging to two different races [male and female], were enabled to get together for a merry chuckle over the amazing circus of that magic week.

http://www.guysen.com/mena.php?sid=964

Posted by: Eliyahu at January 24, 2006 3:09 AM

Oh for goodness sake.............! ! !

Posted by: marilyn at January 24, 2006 11:22 PM