Did terrorist leader Yasir Arafat succumb to AIDS?(Insider Report)(acquired immuno deficiency syndrome)

From: The New American | Date: December 13, 2004 | Copyright information

While world leaders were tripping over each other to offer eulogies casting PLO terrorist chief Yasir Arafat as a statesman and peacemaker, the November 12 New York Times publicly floated a question that many observers of Arafat's mysterious ailment had been asking for some time. In an article entitled, "Secrecy by Aides and Silence by Doctors Persists, and What Killed Ararat Is Still a Mystery," Elizabeth Rosenthal, a medical doctor, broached the possibility that the PLO leader, who died in a Paris hospital, may have succumbed to AIDS.

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