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	Arafat 'between life and death' but not brain dead
		CLAMART, France (AFP) - A spokeswoman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Leila Shahid, denied that he was brain dead, but said that the 75-year-old was "between life and death" and in a reversible coma in his hospital near Paris.
		Shahid said that all of Arafat's "vital organs" were functioning, adding that he had "opened his eyes and smiled" during a visit to the hospital by French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday afternoon.
		According to Shahid, Arafat is in a "reversible coma because he was put under anaesthetic so that the necessary tests could be carried out, in other words an endoscopy, a coloscopy, biopsy of his spine marrow -- because we still have no diagnosis.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?ID=32907 (564 words)

	CNN.com - Arafat on life support, U.S. officials say - Nov 5, 2004
		Leila Shahid, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Paris, confirmed that Arafat was in a coma but said it was "reversible" and he could come out of it.
		Shahid said the coma was initially induced by doctors on Wednesday afternoon in order to perform a biopsy after his condition took a turn for the worse.
		Shahid, who was in the room during Chirac's visit, told French radio that when the French leader held Arafat's hand, he opened his eyes and smiled although it was not clear if he recognized Chirac.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/04/arafat.health (664 words)

	ABC News: Tests on Arafat Show No Signs of Leukemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Palestinian envoy to France Leila Shahid, speaks to the media outside the military hospital where ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is receiving treatment in Clamart, outside Paris, Saturday Oct. 30, 2004.
		Shahid, speaking in several languages to reporters outside the Percy military training hospital southwest of Paris: "The doctors exclude, already from what he has done in terms of exams, any possibility of leukemia.
		In Arabic, Shahid said other tests also have "not shown any sign of other dangerous disease." But "there are other possibilities and we are still exploring," she added in English.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=212790 (1003 words)

	Arafat in Coma; Funeral Arrangements Debated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Yasser Arafat is reported to be in a coma in a military hospital outside of Paris while officials discuss possible funeral arrangements, most importantly where the veteran Palestinian leader is to be laid to rest.
		The Palestinian representative in France, Leila Shahid, denied persistent reports that Mr.
		In an interview on France's RTL Radio, Leila Shahid said that doctors have described Mr.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/he/2004-11-05-voa20.html (347 words)

	granma.cu - Arafat’s state of health becomes more complex
		PARIS, November 5 (PL).—Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), is in a state of reversible coma, between "life and death," Leila Shahid, the PNA delegate, stated today in this capital.
		For her part, Shahid categorically denied that Arafat, who has had an endoscopy that did not detect any sign of suspected stomach cancer, is brain dead.
		Shahid dismissed the possibility of Arafat’s resignation from the PNA leadership given his deteriorated state of health.
	www.granma.cu /INGLES/2004/noviembre/vier5/arafat.html (305 words)

	Middle East Online
		CLAMART, France - A spokeswoman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Leila Shahid, denied on Friday that he was brain dead, but said that the 75-year-old was "between life and death" and in a reversible coma in his hospital near Paris.
		Shahid also criticised Israeli media for reporting Arafat's death on Thursday.
		According to Shahid, Arafat is in a "reversible coma because he was put under anaesthetic so that the necessary tests could be carried out, in other words an endoscopy, a coloscopy, biopsy of his spine marrow - because we still have no diagnosis.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=11786 (371 words)

	Initial tests find no signs Arafat has leukemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Earlier, a Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity had said there was a strong possibility Arafat was suffering from the bone and blood cancer and that a team of French physicians specializing in the disorder examined the Palestinian leader for a second day Saturday.
		Shahid, speaking in several languages to reporters outside the Percy military training hospital southwest of Paris, did not take questions or explain what she meant by "for the time being" or whether results from further tests on leukemia were pending.
		In Arabic, she said other tests also have "not shown any sign of other dangerous disease." But "there are other possibilities and we are still exploring," she added in English.
	www.messenger-inquirer.com /news/usworld/7745459.htm (637 words)

	United Press International: Arafat remains near death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Published 11/5/2004 1:59 PM PARIS, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian officials moved swiftly Friday to stem a flood of reports that Yasser Arafat was brain dead, claiming though the 75-year-old Palestinian leader was in a coma and hovering near death, his condition could improve.
		Shahid said Arafat even opened his eyes and smiled at President Jacques Chirac Thursday when the French leader paid him a brief visit.
		"My presence here shows we have nothing to hide," Shahid told RTL radio, even as she refused to offer many details about the Palestinian leader's condition, and insisted French doctors treating him were bound to medical secrecy.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20041105-012856-6109r (555 words)

	KSDK NewsChannel 5 - Where The News Comes First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, denied French and Israeli media reports that Arafat was being kept alive on life support amid conflicting reports over his condition after a sharp decline a day earlier.
		Shahid suggested the coma occurred after he was put under anesthesia to have additional medical tests, including an endoscopy, colonoscopy and a biopsy of the spinal cord.
		Endoscopy and colonoscopy, where a camera is threaded down the throat and up the colon to inspect the intestine, involves sedation but not a general anesthetic, which would induce unconsciousness.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=69502 (789 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		The sudden deterioration came a few hours after Leila Shahid, the Palestinians' permanent envoy to Paris, reiterated that doctors carrying out tests on Arafat in the suburb of Clamart, southwest of Paris, had ruled out leukemia or any other form of cancer and said his health was improving.
		Shahid told LCI television in Paris she was worried by the prospect of a second term for Bush because he had conducted what she called a policy of war.
		Shahid said there was a big difference between Bush and his Democratic challenger John Kerry on foreign policy but did not say elaborate.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/04_Global/041103.Arafat.in.ICU.html (413 words)

	Leila Shahid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over US$180,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		Leila Shahid (born in Beyrouth in 1949) is since 1994 the envoy of Palestine to France.
		She makes frequent appearances in the French media so as to promote the Palestinian point of view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leila_Shahid (80 words)

	CBS News \| Leukemia Said Ruled Out For Arafat \| October 31, 2004 11:22:03
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, in a brief statement
		Doctors have "excluded for the time being any possibility of leukemia," Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told reporters.
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told reporters in the evening that doctors "exclude, already from what he has done in terms of exams, any possibility of leukemia.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/10/31/world/main652482.shtml (1439 words)

	USATODAY.com - Arafat's condition is improving; tests next (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Palestinian leader has been talking with heads of state and close relatives during the last two days, said Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France.
		Arafat, who has been ill for three weeks, took a turn for the worse on Oct. 27, collapsing and briefly losing consciousness, and was rushed Friday to the Percy military hospital in southwest Paris for treatment.
		Palestinian officials say doctors have ruled out leukemia, while another said it was not a concern "for the time being." A medical guessing game has ensued, with talk of possible blood disorders, poisoning, a viral infection.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-11-02-arafat-health_x.htm (617 words)

	Arafat's condition improving, aide says - World News - MSNBC.com
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, said “President Arafat’s condition has improved sufficiently for him to undergo tests that would not have been performed upon admission” to the French military hospital where he was rushed for treatment on Friday.
		Also Monday, Shahid suggested doctors were not considering poisoning as the likely cause of his health crisis.
		But Shahid said Sharon was wasting his time because Arafat was doing well and would survive.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6329315 (755 words)

	CBS News \| Arafat In 'Final Hours' \| November 10, 2004 23:03:21
		The battered compound was the scene of Arafat's last stand where he weathered an Israeli siege and remained trapped and isolated for two-and-a-half years, until two weeks ago when he fell critically ill and was rushed to France for medical treatment.
		Shahid told France-Info radio that the cleric, Taisser Bayoud Tamimi, who prayed at Arafat's bedside Wednesday, came to Paris to accompany Arafat "in the final phase of his life."
		Arafat was "in a critical state" after a "complication in the state of all of his vital organs" and his coma "seems difficult to come out of," she said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/11/10/world/main655009.shtml (1049 words)

	Arafat’s ailment unclear
		CLAMART, France (AP) - Initial results from a battery of tests on Yasser Arafat found no signs yesterday of leukemia, a Palestinian diplomat said, and blood doctors were still investigating the cause of the ailing Palestinian leader’s dramatic deterioration in health.
		After being rushed from the West Bank to a French military hospital, the 75-year-old Arafat "spent a very good night" and awoke yesterday "in very good humor, rested," said Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France.
		Earlier, a Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity had said that there was a strong possibility Arafat was suffering from the bone and blood cancer and that a team of French physicians specializing in the disorder examined the Palestinian leader for a second day yesterday.
	www.showmenews.com /2004/Oct/20041031News030.asp (788 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Arafat's health suffers Setback, Rushed to Intensive Care
		Palestinian envoy Leila Shahid told BBC that his health had suffered a setback, but gave no further details.
		Blood tests are reported to have revealed that 75-year-old Arafat has a low count of platelets, which are needed for clotting, but doctors are unsure of what is causing the condition.
		The Palestinian envoy to France, Leila Shahid, said Arafat felt well enough to ask about the US presidential election.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/11/04/top7.htm (456 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Arafat's Physicians Rule Out Leukemia
		Arafat continues to undergo tests for the mysterious illness that befell him two weeks ago.
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, told reporters outside the military hospital where Mr.
		Arafat has been interned since Friday that doctors have concluded he is not now suffering from leukemia, or cancer of the blood.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-10-31/24100.html (437 words)

	French hostage's family remain hopeful \| World Breaking News \| Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (21-08-2005)
		THE Palestinian representative in France, Leila Shahid, telephoned the family of kidnapped French TV soundman Mohamed Ouathi overnight urging them to remain hopeful.
		Shahid spoke with Ouathi's sisters in the presence of his extended family, who had gathered in Nanterre near Paris, where the soundman for the France 3 television channel lives.
		Telling the family that efforts to free Ouathi would be "mobilized every second", Shahid recalled that she has been in contact with French and Palestinian authorities about the matter.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,10117,16334474-23109,00.html (475 words)

	Covenant News - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Focus of Dialogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		CHICAGO, IL (April 24, 2002) - Former Israeli parliamentarian Shulamit Aloni and Palestinian official representative in France Leila Shahid will present "Negotiating A Just Peace in Israel and Palestine: The Tough Issues" on Monday, April 29, in Anderson Chapel on the campus of North Park University.
		Shahid has served as the Palestinian official representative in France since 1993.
		Born in Beirut in 1949, Shahid grew up with her two sisters in exile in Lebanon.
	www.covchurch.org /cov/news/item2096.phtml (290 words)

	Crosswalk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Speaking on LCI television in Paris, where Arafat is hospitalized and undergoing medical tests, Leila Shahid, the Palestinian permanent envoy to Paris, said that Arafat -- like all Palestinians -- wants to see President Bush adopt a "policy of peace" rather than what she called a "policy of war."
		Shahid said she was worried because during the last four years "the American administration has conducted a policy of war more than a policy of peace" and has "decided to put the peace process in a freezer" over the last four years.
		Without giving any details, Shahid said in the television interview that there were large foreign-policy differences between Bush and Kerry.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1294579.html?view=print (443 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com The reason of Yasser Arafat illness hasn’t fixed yet
		Palestinian aides said there was no imminent risk of Arafat dying despite his condition, and after his first string of tests on Saturday they said there was no sign of leukemia, as doctors in Ramallah suspected at one stage.
		Leila Shahid, the permanent Palestinian envoy to Paris, was expected to pay another visit to his bedside at Percy Army Teaching Hospital in the Paris suburb of Clamart, which has a strong reputation for treating blood disorders and cancers.
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy in Paris and one of the few people allowed to see Mr.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/10/31/56875.html (2086 words)

	North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County columnists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, said tests showed an improvement in Arafat's white blood cell count but also "persistent abnormalities" in indicators for digestive function.
		Initial tests had "confirmed an abnormal blood count, high white blood cell count and low platelet count and ruled out the diagnosis of leukemia," she said.
		"President Arafat's condition has improved sufficiently for him to undergo tests that would not have been performed upon admission," Shahid said, reading from a statement she said was drafted by the French military hospital treating Arafat and released with his consent.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/11/03/news/nation/17_47_3611_2_04.txt (647 words)

	The Nation
		The frail, 75-year-old Palestinian leader was having medical tests and a full diagnosis was unlikely for several days, a Palestinian representative in Paris, Leila Shahid, told journalists.
		Shahid said doctors treated Arafat within hours of his arrival at the Percy de Clarmat military hospital in a southwest suburb of Paris.
		“Doctors in the hospital took over treatment of Yasser Arafat within the first hours of his arrival,” Leila Shahid said after Arafat was admitted to a French military hospital for treatment.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/oct-2004/30/index3.php (719 words)

	ABC News: Arafat Alive, French Foreign Minister Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Two days after the Palestinian envoy to France, Leila Shahid, said Arafat was comatose and "between life and death," spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh told reporters, "He is not in a coma."
		It was unclear whether Arafat had emerged from a coma or had never been in one.
		Shahid did not return a message left early Sunday.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=233665 (632 words)

	Arafat In French Hospital
		Doctors examining the Palestinian leader in France have excluded "for the time being any possibility" he has the blood cancer, Leila Shahid told reporters.
		Arafat was admitted to a hospital southwest of Paris on Friday, two days after he collapsed at his West Bank compound and briefly lost consciousness.
		Shahid told reporters Arafat's condition has improved since he arrived at the Percy Army Teaching Hospital in Clamart.
	www.canadiancontent.net /forums/about2164.html (2226 words)

	CBC News: Arafat in 'reversible coma,' envoy says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		PARIS - President Yasser Arafat is not brain dead but remains critically ill in a 'reversible coma,' a Palestinian envoy said Friday.
		Leila Shahid told French radio that Arafat was between life and death.
		Doctors anesthetized Arafat to do medical tests, including a spinal-cord biopsy, but don't yet have a diagnosis and say he could regain consciousness, she said.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/11/04/arafat_health041104.html (596 words)

	SABCnews.com - world/the_middle_east
		Yasser Arafat's health has suffered a setback at a French military hospital where he is being treated but his life is not in any immediate danger, Palestinian officials said.
		Leila Shahid, a permanent Palestinian envoy to Paris, gave no further details on the condition of the 75-year-old Palestinian president.
		The doctors are carrying out tests to try to explain why this happened," said Shahid, using Arafat's nom de guerre.
	www.sabcnews.com /world/the_middle_east/0,2172,91290,00.html (431 words)

	Leila Shahid: the resolve of a Palestinian envoy.
		Leila Shahid: the resolve of a Palestinian envoy.
		Now, as the Palestinian Authority’s representative in France, Leila Shahid is continuing the fight for the creation of a Palestinian state, for women’s rights and peaceful coexistence at the heart of Mediterranean civilization
		As Palestine’s representative in France and a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, you’re often in the media spotlight.
	www.unesco.org /courier/1999_04/uk/dires/txt1.htm (3081 words)

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