 Palestinians let rip at Yasser Arafat's wife Suha yesterday after she alleged his top lieutenants were plotting a deathbed coup, accusing her of abandoning the nationalist struggle for the boutiques of Paris. The bottle-blonde Suha, who is 34 years younger than the 75-year-old Palestinian leader, had not even seen her husband for nearly three years before flying to his West Bank headquarters late last month and then accompanying him to France for urgent medical care.
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But Suha has rarely strayed from her husband's bedside since his admission on October 29 to the Percy Military Hospital on the outskirts of Paris, where he has been in a coma since the middle of last week.
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In an emotional appeal to the Palestinian people, Suha said that "a handful of (people) seeking to inherit power are coming to Paris to try and bury Abu Ammar (Arafat) alive. I ask you to look at the extent of the plot." Her comments on the Al Jazeera television network came shortly before Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, the acting head of his Palestine Liberation Organisation Mahmud Abbas and Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath left for Paris to see for themselves how their leader was faring. But her appeal to the Palestinian public appears to have fallen on deaf ears, with most people denouncing her as a "gold digger" and "deserter".
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