Back from the Dead?

You can’t disrespect it
I’m the resurrected
Back from the dead
Just to mess with your head
--House of Pain

Damn you Arafat. Now he has joined the ranks of Tupac, Elvis, Biggie and Paul McCartney in the "Is he dead?" sweepstakes.

I'm gonna call this one from 3 point land and say that they will shuttle the body out of the hospital and call it a 'miracle' of some sort. He'll be dead, but not to the 'believers'. He'll be out there forever, with an unknown, mythological fate. His wife and others will come out with some fantastic story about a divine miracle occuring at his bed.

Again, that's me calling it from 3 point land.

Arafat close to death, Palestinians making plans
CTV.ca News Staff

Yasser Arafat's most senior colleagues in government travelled to Paris Tuesday to visit their comatose leader, while back in the West Bank, Palestinian officials made plans for his expected death.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas visited Arafat's bedside on Tuesday morning.

After spending a couple of hours with their ailing leader, they emerged for a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac. And then, they broke the news.

The trio of Abbas, Shaath and Chirac then had talks with Satan, Qusay and Uday about the arrangements for Arafat's descent into hell. The talks were in preparation of a special reception for the Palestinian leaders first 'soiree' in the underworld. The reception is said to boast Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, and Ghengis Khan all attending the special event to "meet and greet" with their new peer.

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