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  الموقع الرسمي لابناء الشهيد ياسر عرفات - The sun of The Martyr Yaser Arafat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Suha Arafat from Gaza and confirmed denied this news is totally lacks health is a distortion of the image of the late President Yasser Arafat, his widow and his daughter, Zahwa, and The Office of Ms.
Suha embraced Islam and performed Al-Omra while her husband was under siege and the first thing she did the year he died was to go to Al-Hajj with her their 9 year old daughter Zahwa.
Suha's father and mother at the time lived in Paris after her mother was threatened by the Israelis and a bomb was placed under her car in Ramallah.
www.suha-arafat.com /eindex1.htm   (937 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Arafat's wife surfaces as major player   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Arafat, who until now remained largely outside the political scene, said top officials aimed to "bury" her husband "alive." A Christian convert to Islam, she ended the phone call with "God is Great" — often used as a Muslim war cry.
Arafat, who has received a generous monthly stipend from her husband and is under investigation by French authorities for alleged illegal transfers of $11.4 million into her accounts, is elbowing into the Palestinian political scene.
Suha Arafat generated more animosity when she arrived in the largely Muslim, conservative Gaza Strip in 1994 and refused to cover her long blonde hair with the traditional Islamic head-covering.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-11-08-palestinian-suha_x.htm   (896 words)

  
 Yasser Arafat Relationships
Arafat gets a lot of emotional fulfillment through his involvement in groups, clubs, organizations, community activities, or a network of close friends who support and care for him.
Arafat is very much aware of his personal appearance, attractiveness, and charm, and he can be rather narcissistic.
Yasser Arafat tends to deprive himself of pleasure, friendship, and love, either because he feels he does not deserve it or he thinks it is wrong to enjoy life too much.
www.topsynergy.com /famous/Yasser_Arafat.asp   (913 words)

  
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Suha Arafat, widow of Yasser Arafat, secretly married Lahasn al-Trabulsi, the brother-in-law of the Tunisian president, a number of days ago, a Tunisian website reported.
Two years ago, after Arafat's death, Suha was personally promised by Mahmoud Abbas' staff that she would receive USD 22 million a year, on the basis of an agreement Arafat himself sent his wife while on his death bed – USD 11 million to cover her lifestyle in Paris for half year.
Abbas and Palestinian senior figures were forced to come to a deal with Suha, after she "created facts on the ground," in accordance with French law, and prevented PA members from visiting Arafat as he was dying, or to take decisions on disconnecting the life support machine, until she received her promise.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3292237,00.html   (360 words)

  
 MidEast Web - Biography - Yasser Arafat - Chairman of the PLO
Arafat was apparently greatly influenced by one of his teachers, Majid Halaby, who gave him the nickname Yasir, because of his supposed resemblance to Yasir al Birah, a Palestinian leader killed by the British in the Arab revolt.
Arafat and the PLO eventually found their way to Beirut, which remained the center of PLO operations against Israel until 1982.In the 70s, the PLO came to be widely recognized as the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and Arafat was recognized as the leader of the Palestinians.
Arafat was elected by the Central Council of the PLO as the first President of the State of Palestine on April 2, 1989.
www.mideastweb.org /bio-arafat.htm   (1922 words)

  
 cbs2chicago.com - Suha Arafat Takes Control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Suha Arafat's outburst initially prompted the postponement of the trip by Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Parliament Speaker Rauhi Fattouh.
Suha Arafat has been rejected by a great number of Palestinians as a spoiled socialite who chose life in Paris over standing by her 75-year-old husband's side in the devastated West Bank headquarters where he has been kept a virtual prisoner by Israel for some three years.
But his presence in Paris — where suha Arafat has lived much of her life — has given her the legal authority under French law to be in charge, a power she would almost certainly have not wielded had he remained in Ramallah or been admitted to a hospital in an Arab country.
cbs2chicago.com /topstories/topstories_story_314064025.html   (719 words)

  
 Suha Arafat
Suha’s mother introduced Arafat to her daughter while she was studying at the Sorbonne.
While Arafat is known for his military dress, unkempt appearance, and austere lifestyle, Suha developed a reputation for extravagance after moving to Paris, where she receives a $100,000 monthly allowance from the PA budget.
Suha has never had a base of popular support in territories and has no political influence, so she is not expected to have any role in the future of the Palestinian Authority.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Suha_Arafat.html   (929 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Arafat's top lieutenants travel to Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Early Monday, Suha Arafat accused the leadership — including top lieutenants Ahmed Qureia and Mahmoud Abbas — of coming to the French capital with the sole intention of usurping her husband's role as head of the Palestinian Authority.
Suha Arafat, his wife of 13 years and mother of his daughter, seems to have aligned herself with hard-liners who apparently seek to take over the Palestinian leadership in a post-Arafat era, though some Palestinian officials said her motives are more financial.
Suha Arafat, 41, lives in Paris and has not been to the West Bank or seen her husband since the latest round of Palestinian violence began in 2000.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-11-07-arafat_x.htm   (781 words)

  
 Conservative Truth - Suha Arafat Getting Fat In France - Gary Fitleberg - 2004-02-23
In a phone interview from Paris, where Suha Arafat lives a luxurious lifestyle with her daughter, she told the London-based Al-Hayat daily that Sharon was spreading "the malevolent press leaks" to cover up a bribery scandal that could force him out of office.
Yasser Arafat is one of the most clever, corrupt, and devious criminals and dictators, as well as one of the wealthiest men in the entire history and world.
Suha Arafat has also previously expressed her support for so-called “suicide bombers” (actually “homicide bombers”), explaining it was “the legitimate right of any nation under occupation”.
www.conservativetruth.org /article.php?id=2147   (701 words)

  
 The Hindu : Front Page : They want to bury my husband alive: Suha Arafat
Arafat's estranged wife and younger to him by 34 years, has also for the first time referred to the possibility that her husband may have been poisoned.
Arafat, as the PLO leader's closest kith and kin, is the sole person allowed to decide what should be made public about her husband's state of health.
Arafat is in fact in an irreversible coma, whether brain death has in fact occurred and whether he would die if life support machines were to be disconnected.
www.hindu.com /2004/11/09/stories/2004110909400100.htm   (511 words)

  
 CNN.com - Palestinian leaders in Paris to visit Arafat - Nov 8, 2004
Many Palestinians in the West Bank complained that Suha Arafat had not been in the region for a few years but was suddenly exerting influence now that her husband may be on his deathbed.
Suha Arafat, 34 years younger than her husband, was once his secretary and married him in 1990.
Suha Arafat and Zahwa left Ramallah in early 2001, a few months after the outbreak of the current Palestinian intifada.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/08/arafat/index.html   (792 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Arafat's wife delaying death announcement
Suha Arafat, wife of ailing PLO leader Yasser Arafat, is looking to delay as long as possible the announcement of her husband's death to bide time while she tries to negotiate for herself a large inheritance, Israeli sources told WorldNetDaily.
Security sources say Suha is seeking to ensure herself a large inheritance after her husband's death, and is delaying as long as possible the publication of his actual health status while negotiations with key PLO financial figures commence.
Arafat is said to be worth hundreds of millions or possibly billions, mostly from money Israel says he secretly shifted to bank accounts in his name by allegedly plundering financial aid sent to help a battered West Bank and Gaza economy over the years.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41366   (682 words)

  
 TruthNews
Ironically, Arafat’s own former PLO treasurer Jaweed al Ghussein accused him of diverting and embezzling $1.3 billion dollars of funds earmarked for "humanitarian aid" money (eight million monthly) to his personal accounts which was stolen from his own people and also utilized for terrorism.
Suha Arafat has also previously expressed her support for so-called "suicide bombers" (actually "homicide bombers"), explaining it was "the legitimate right of any nation under occupation." She added she would not hesitate to send her sons on a suicide (homicide) mission.
Suha said that she was not called in by the French public prosecutor or any other official for investigations.
truthnews.com /world/2004020052.htm   (712 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Arafat's Wife Attacks His Aides, Setting Off a Public Brawl
The uproar began early Monday morning when Suha Arafat, speaking in distraught tones, charged in a phone call to the al-Jazeera television network that aides were conspiring to "bury Abu Ammar alive." Her husband is widely known among Palestinians as Abu Ammar.
Suha Arafat is the Palestinian leader's onetime secretary and is 34 years his junior.
But some officials and citizens said that in her call to al-Jazeera, Suha Arafat seemed to be suggesting that the visiting officials wanted to unplug Arafat's life-support systems.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A35251-2004Nov8?language=printer   (758 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - 'They're Trying to Bury My Husband Alive' Suha Arafat Says
Suha, 41, who had not seen her husband for more than three years until he became ill, has been living in luxury in Paris for most of the intifadah and is not well respected among Palestinians.
Suha, a Christian, ended her appeal with the Islamic battle cry "Allah hu Akba" -- Allah is greater.
Arafat is in a difficult enough health situation and also she is nervous according to her nature," Shakour said in a radio interview in Hebrew on Monday in response to Suha's tirade.
www.crosswalk.com /news/1295394.html   (1103 words)

  
 The Greatest Jeneration - Suha Arafat: "Yasser can't die! I don't have his Swiss bank account code yet!"
Arafat, who prior to her husband being flown to a Paris military hospital on Oct. 29 had not seen him in three years, of limiting access to and information about the veteran leader.
Arafat, symbol for decades of the Palestinian struggle for a state and against Israeli occupation, was suffering from liver failure and his health was not improving, one official said.
Arafat started this whole militarized and radicalized IslamoFacist movement when he and his Black September group were kicked out of Jordan in the '70's and went on to plan and carry out the slaughter of the Israeli wrestling team at the '72 Munich Olympics.
www.greatestjeneration.com /archives/002071.php   (1146 words)

  
 Roger L. Simon: So Suha Me!
Suha got some of her cronies to get tenders and franchises in PLO and PA deals, against the will of Arafat's people.
Arafat's confidants, however, leaked reports of huge sums of money that were transferred to her hands.
Arafat was funding several armies such as Fatah, the Martyr's Brigade und so weiter, I have heard the number 12, but I assume that is mythic like the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles of Jesus.
www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2004/11/so_suha_me.php   (2254 words)

  
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The declaration was highly embarrassing to the Palestinian leadership, but it became clear that the division was based on arguments over money between the sides, specifically regarding the financial compensation to be received by the widow from the capital controlled by her husband.
PA sources said that the repair in relations between Abbas and Suha Arafat is highly symbolic, since she does not serve any public role and has no power.
The warming in relations with both Kadumi and Suha Arafat are expected to strengthen Abba's position within his movement and in his relations with Hamas and Israel, PA sources said.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3258248,00.html   (327 words)

  
 CNN.com - Aide: Arafat suffers brain hemorrhage - Nov 9, 2004
Yasser Arafat is shown at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah in September.
The delegation postponed a planned trip over the weekend after Suha Arafat, 41, made an emotional phone call to Al-Jazeera, in which she accused the Palestinian leadership of conspiring against her husband.
Suha Arafat, who was once Arafat's secretary and married him in 1990, was raised as a Christian and converted to Islam before marrying.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/09/arafat/index.html   (835 words)

  
 Suha Arafat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suha attended the convent Rosary Sisters' School in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem and later the Sorbonne in Paris.
Suha has been criticized by the Palestinian public for not staying with her husband when confined to his headquarters in Ramallah by the Israelis in 2002.
Suha's father and mother at the time lived in Paris after her mother was allegedly threatened by the Israelis and a bomb was placed under her car in Ramallah.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suha_Arafat   (1855 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Profile: Suha Arafat
Their daughter, Zawha, was born in July 1995, and since the start of the second intifada, Mrs Arafat has been living with her mother and daughter in Paris.
Mrs Arafat hit back by accusing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of leaking news of the French inquiry in order to distract attention from corruption allegations that were being levelled against him at the time.
Some have voiced fears in the past that her lifestyle could damage Mr Arafat's "revolutionary credentials" - and since she has no social or political standing in the PLO, her influence is unlikely to survive the death of her husband.
419.bittenus.com /SuhaArafat/bbc.htm   (574 words)

  
 Steve Quayle News Alerts
After the Palestinian officials settled with Arafat’s wife, Shaat went before the media to admit that Arafat had been in a deep coma since last Wednesday, November 3, meaning that all the Palestinian communiqués since then, describing him laughing with doctors, reading the Koran etc., were arrant falsehoods.
Arafat chose to confine himself to two wretched rooms to show the world how badly Israel was treating him and win the world’s sympathy.
With a multi-billion fortune at his disposal, Arafat invariably appeared in public in grubby, crumpled khakis – mainly because the aides who served him and his finely tailored associates were not overly concerned with his welfare.
www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/04_Global/041110.Suha.payout.html   (930 words)

  
 Media Ducks Arab Anti-Semitism in Suha Story
Arafat did have a point." The reporter declared, "It's true that tear gas, frequently used by Israeli soldiers, has been linked to miscarriages among Palestinians." No. It is not true.
But Beyer's readiness to repeat old propaganda charges without checking facts and to cover up the true import of Suha Arafat's statements was but a slightly exaggerated case of the general media silence about the drumbeat of anti-Semitism in the PA and many of the surrounding Arab states.
When Suha, utterly unchastened by the repercussions of her poison gas charges in Ramallah, made similarly slanderous statements ten days later on the Arab satellite channel Orbit, claiming Israel pours toxic waste into the Gaza water system, her remarks received barely a mention.
world.std.com /~camera/docs/oncamera/ocsuha.html   (839 words)

  
 Mideast Dispatch Archive: Suha Arafat “remarries” (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot)
Two years ago, after Arafat’s death, Suha was personally promised an annual stipend of $22 million to cover her lifestyle and household expenses by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ staff.
Senior Palestinian figures say they were forced to come to a deal with Suha, after she instructed her lawyers to use French law to prevent PA members from visiting Arafat as he lay dying, or to take decisions on disconnecting his life support machine, until she received a financial commitment from them.
Arafat died in Paris at the age of 75 in 2004.
www.tomgrossmedia.com /mideastdispatches/archives/000770.html   (1956 words)

  
 FraudWatchers.Org - Suha Arafat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Suha Arafat was the wife of Yassar Arafat who was the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
Arafat has access to a large amount of funds which were controlled by her former husband.
Suha Arafat is a strong, intelligent woman who is most capable of looking after her own finances, however large or small those finances may be.
www.fraudwatchers.org /forums/showthread.php?t=408   (786 words)

  
 AM - Suha Arafat accuses leaders of conspiring to usurp her husband
SUHA ARAFAT (translated): I call on you to be aware of the size of the conspiracy.
MARK WILLACY: Those Suha Arafat accuses of burying her husband alive are the Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurie, acting PLO chief, Abu Mazen, and Foreign Minister, Nabil Sha'ath.
The three were planning to visit Yasser Arafat in Paris to see for themselves how sick the ailing President is. But Suha Arafat denounced the trip as part of a wider conspiracy to steal Mr Arafat's powers.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1237509.htm   (648 words)

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