A lot of speculation on the health of Yassir Arafat:

One Palestinian source yesterday offered an explanation for the incongruous appearances: In a word, drugs.

He said Arafat sometimes works "beyond the point" of exhaustion.

I have to ask: working on what exactly? Fighting terrorists or Israel?
lol

"Often in the past, the way his doctors dealt with that was to give him a big shot of cortisone, which gave him a lift for a day or so. But then, the day after, he would crash and look like hell."
During the last few days in October of 2004 Arafat looked like he had been to Hell and was heading back quicky ..and he still might!
Israeli media have joined in the speculation, with one Hebrew print report suggesting his food may have been laced with poison in a failed assassination attempt.

Interesting. Probably not the last we'll hear on this.
and even more interesting since this was posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2003