Arafat's Wife Flips Out! Says Palestinian Aides Want Him Buried Alive.
This is getting wild!
CLAMART, France - Yasser Arafat 's wife said her husband is "all right" and lashed out at his top lieutenants Monday, accusing them of planning to travel to Paris to "bury" him "alive."
Soon after Suha Arafat's comments, the Palestinian leader's aides canceled their trip to the French capital, Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a senior Arafat aide, said.
In a screaming telephone call from Arafat's hospital bedside, Suha Arafat told Al-Jazeera television that she was issuing "an appeal to the Palestinian people." She accused his top aides, who had planned to arrive in Paris late Monday, of conspiring to usurp her husband's four-decade-long role as Palestinian leader.
"Let it be known to the honest Palestinian people that a bunch of those who want to inherit are coming to Paris," she shouted in Arabic, in her first public comments since Arafat fell ill a month ago.
"You have to realize the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive," she said, using Arafat's nom de guerre. "He is all right and he is going home. God is great."
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