Arafat, Icon of Palestinian Cause, Dead at 75
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace Prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died on Thursday, his dream of a  Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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JERUSALEM, NOVEMBER 11: Yasser Arafat, the man who embodied the cause of the Palestinian people for four decades, died today a hospital outside Paris.
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GAZA CITY - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia has ordered an inquiry into what caused the death of Yasser Arafat. Arafat, 75, died in a French military hospital last week.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who  rose from guerrilla icon to Nobel prize-winning peacemaker only  to fall into isolation amid new violence with Israel, died in a  French hospital on Thursday, a hospital spokesman said.
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A spokeswoman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Leila Shahid, denied that he was brain dead, but said that the 75-year-old was &quot;between life and death&quot; and in a reversible coma in his hospital near Paris.
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Palestinian officials hoping to see  Yasser Arafat arrived at a French military hospital on Tuesday  where their 75-year-old leader was in a deep coma.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat was officially declared dead on Thursday, cabinet  minister Saeb Erekat said.
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JERUSALEM : Political leaders in Israel and the West Bank steeled themselves for the end of the Yasser Arafat era as the vanguard of the Palestinian nationalist struggle for the past four decades lay brain dead in a Paris hospital.
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FOR ALMOST a half century, the name Yasser Arafat was synonymous with Palestinian nationalism. Even as his global influence wanes, and his physical health deteriorates, Arafat provides a reed of continuity
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THE death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has been seen in parts of the West, especially the United States and Britain, as an opening to peace in the Middle East.
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Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died.
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HIS MISSION in life was embodied in a slogan: Death to Israel. Now death has claimed Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Nobel
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Palestinians looked to their leadership to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat's fate in a French hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the icon of their fight for statehood. Arafat, 75, suffered a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday at the hospital where he was flown from the West Bank on Oct. 29 and had lain in a coma. Officials insisted in public that he was alive, though aides said privately that he was dead.
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Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, died early Thursday morning in a Paris hospital, a French military spokesman announced.
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It&#39;s been almost a week since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died. With constant conflict in the Middle East , some wonder if Arafat&#39;s death will bring about peace in his former home.
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EXACTLY what killed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the age of 75 looks like becoming one of the great political mysteries of our times.
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PARIS, Nov 16  - The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered from cirrhosis of the liver, but his death last week was not caused by alcohol, but a variety of causes, according to Wednesday&#39;s issue of the French satirical weekly Le Canard