Confusion Over Arafat, Palestinians Prepare Burial
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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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Yasser Arafat will get a military funeral  in Egypt on Friday before burial in the smashed West Bank  compound where he spent his final years besieged by Israeli  troops without realizing his dream of a Palestinian state.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- In the West Bank, preparations began Tuesday for Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral, even though Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told a Paris press conference that the Palestinian leader was &quot;very much alive&quot; and discussion of his
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Israel has drawn up preparations for Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, outlining plans to let West Bank Palestinians cross through Israel for the funeral and allow enemy Arab leaders to attend, security officials said Sunday.
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Yasser Arafat's latest health crisis &#151; a severe flu, gallstones, a battery of cancer tests &#151; has exposed how unprepared the Palestinians are for their leader's death, making a chaotic transition period all but inevitable.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The agreement yesterday between Palestinians and Israelis that Yasser Arafat will be buried amid his ruined headquarters may represent the first faint ray of hope for a fresh start toward peace in the post-Arafat era, Middle East officials and observers say.
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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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The coffin of Yasser Arafat, draped with the Palestinian flag, was bound for Ramallah in the West Bank Friday, following a formal funeral on a military compound near Cairo.
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CAIRO -- Egypt prepared yesterday for a strictly controlled military funeral for Yasser Arafat where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects, but where the people -- among whom Arafat was by far more popular -- will be mostly shut out.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Dead Palestinian leader  Yasser Arafat's body will be flown to Cairo for a ceremony  Friday and then to the West Bank city of Ramallah for burial  the same day, a former aide said Thursday.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a coma on  Friday as a row brewed over where he would be buried and  questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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At Yasser Arafat&#39;s Paris hospital, confusion reigned as his wife, aides, and others wrangled over his state of health. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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PARIS -- As he lay in a French military hospital fighting for his life early today, Yasser Arafat was at the center of a struggle over who would replace him as Palestinian leader and a controversy over his longtime desire to be buried in Jerusalem.
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Yasser Arafat lay in a coma "between life  and death" on Friday as a row brewed between Israelis and  Palestinians over a likely burial site.
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RAMALLAH: Palestinian leaders last night decided they would seek to have President Yasser Arafat buried at his West Bank headquarters.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat was laid to an uneasy rest yesterday as impassioned young supporters vowed not to compromise with Israel and as rumors of foul play in Arafat's death threatened to undercut the standing of his successors.
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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.