Chaotic Scenes at Arafat Compound Before Burial
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinian  mourners flooded into Yasser Arafat's compound and mobbed his  coffin after it arrived for burial on Friday in the area where  Israeli forces trapped him until his final days.
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CLAMART, France, Nov 4  - Several dozen people on Thursday gathered outside a military hospital near Paris where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was being kept alive by artificial life support systems.
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A cameraman shoots video footage backdropped by a row of posters depicting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Kalandia, prior to a PLO leadership meeting at the compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday Nov. 6, 2004.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the place where he spent his last years as a prisoner, buried in a huge and chaotic outpouring of grief for the man who embodied the Palestinian people&#39;s dream of statehood.
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In an emotionally charged burial ceremony which verged on chaos, the Palestinian people bid farewell to their leader as Yasser Arafat was buried in the Mukata compound in Ramallah.
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Gunfire erupted Sunday at the tent set up for mourners to gather in memory of Yasser Arafat, witnesses said, just after Arafat&#39;s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived at the site.
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Arafat&#39;s funeral is to be held Friday in Cairo. He will be buried at his West Bank headquarters on Saturday. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Doctors arrive at ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah.
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A top Islamic cleric was rushing to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#39;s hospital bedside Wednesday after his coma deepened and his caretaker government chose a burial site.
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Palestinians looked to their leadership to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat&#39;s fate in a French hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the icon of the fight for a state.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remained in a deep coma and close to death at a hospital outside of Paris Wednesday, will be buried at his battered headquarters compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem, following a state funeral in Cairo, Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian officials said.
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CAIRO  - Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral in Cairo was held in a solemn atmosphere amid tight security, as presidents, kings and princes paid their final respects to the Palestinian leader, while crowds from the city of the veteran leader&#39;s birth were kept
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Surging frenzied crowds  forced a hasty burial of Yasser Arafat on Friday, preventing  mourners like student Deya Jamal from paying their last  respects to the charismatic Palestinian president.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat was buried on  Friday in a chaotic scene of grief and gunfire at the compound  where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army  and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.
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The condition of the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, has worsened overnight, just before a group of Mr. Arafat's likely political heirs arrived today.
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Arriving ahead of schedule, winter rains have begun lashing Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority. On most days, a thin layer of mist hangs around Yasser Arafat&#39;s grave, where a Palestinian guard keeps a 24-hour vigil.
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Yasir Arafat&#39;s uncertain health took a sharp turn for the worse on Wednesday night with an ambulance and medical teams summoned to his West Bank compound amid unconfirmed