Thousands wail at Arafat&#39;s burial
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RAMALLAH, West Bank,  - The screaming, whooping hordes surged forward as an Egyptian helicopter bearing the body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat touched down at his Muqataa compound in Ramallah.
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asser Arafat was buried Friday to gunfire and mob devotion as his people stormed buildings and overran his walled compound in a frenzied send-off the guerrilla warrior wouldn&#39;t have had any other way.
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His successors wanted an orderly funeral. They brought in bulldozers to clean up Yasir Arafat&#39;s broken-down headquarters in Ramallah.
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The flag-draped coffin of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been carried through a crowd of tens of thousands of mourners amid the sound of gunfire.
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Thousands turn out for the funeral of Filipino film star Fernando Poe Jr who narrowly lost this year's presidential poll.
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As members of Long Island&#39;s tiny Palestinian community absorbed the news of the death of Yasser Arafat Thursday, many spoke reverently of a man who had given the disposessed Palestinian people a voice.
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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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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: Yasser Arafat was laid to rest amid scenes of chaos at his West Bank headquarters as thousands of Palestinians packed into the compound to catch a last glimpse of their leader.
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Tens of thousands of mourners, some of them spraying automatic rifle fire into the air, swept aside more than 1,000 Palestinian security personnel as well as the Palestinian Authority&#39;s meticulous plans for a somber funeral ceremony as they bade farewell
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Thousands attended the burial of Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash in Jordan on Monday, chanting against Israel and vowing to carry on his struggle for a Palestinian state.
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Tens of thousands of people are expected to throng the West Bank city of Ramallah today for the interment of Mr Yasser Arafat, the 75-year-old Palestinian leader who died early yesterday in Paris, writes ...
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral began Friday with prayers for the Palestinian leader after his wooden coffin, draped in the Palestinian flag, was carried into an Egyptian military mosque.
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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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Palestinians pay their last respects to Yasser Arafat after chaotic scenes at his burial in Ramallah.
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Mourners filed past Yasser Arafat&#39;s tomb in Ramallah Saturday as Palestinian soldiers kept watch over what had been a chaotic scene just hours before.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, reportedly in a coma and lingering between life and death in a French hospital, was on the hearts and minds of several Palestinians as they left the North