Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who doctors say may have leukemia, Good news! Radiation and chemo. Makes me think perhaps a quick departure isn't such a good idea after all.
was conscious and in "good shape" at a French hospital on Friday after leaving the West Bank for the first time in more than 2-1/2 years. The 75-year-old president, who has for decades embodied the struggle with Israel for a Palestinian state, was rushed to the hospital by helicopter after landing at a military airfield
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southwest of Paris. He was stretchered inside. "We are very relieved that he was able to travel, that he arrived in good shape and was conscious. I talked to him," said Leila Shahid, the Palestinian Authority's envoy to Paris. "President Arafat has been suffering from an intestinal flu for at least three weeks,
Three weeks they've let him puke blood. Savages even to their fearless leader. Or maybe they hoped he'd kick the bucked sooner.
but obviously there is more to it than that," she told reporters at the hospital in the southwestern Paris suburb of Clamart. Doctors had already begun examining him but would need "several days before (they) can finish all the examinations and arrive at a real diagnosis," she added.