 Israeli and Palestinian officials have reached an agreement in principle on funeral arrangements for the ailing Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian official said as hundreds of Palestinians poured into the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah late yesterday after officials said Arafat was suffering a brain hemorrhage. "Senior Palestinian and Israeli officials have reached an agreement in principle on the arrangements to be made after the death of president Arafat," the official said. He refused to give further details about the agreement, and in particular whether Israel had given the go-ahead for the Palestinian leader to eventually be buried in his battered Muqataa compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Earlier, a senior Israeli official, who asked not to be named, said that the two sides would hold talks on the issue "in the night". | Fox News just showed video of Arafat's compound being cleaned, they're hauling away all the junked cars and 55 gallon drums. Getting ready to plant the old terrorist, dead or not. Fox also sez they may hold official state funeral in Cairo so "world leaders" don't have to travel to Ramallah. Bet some of the "leaders" attending were worrying about getting popped by a Israeli Hellfire. |
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