Arafat: Globetrotter turned prisoner
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Jerusalem - Once famous for being the globetrotting champion of the Palestinian cause, Yasser Arafat spent the past three years cooped up in his shrivelled compound staring down the barrels of Israeli tanks.
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Yasir Arafat, the ailing Palestinian leader, arrived in France today as the guest of the French government and was immediately taken to a military hospital for treatment of what is being called a mysterious ailment.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment the captain of a Palestinian arms smuggling ship whose capture two years ago prompted Washington to shun Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Erez Military Court convicted Omar Akkawi, a Palestinian Transportation Ministry employee caught at the Karine A's helm by Israeli naval commandos in January 2002, of trafficking in weapons. Two other ...
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A senior Palestinian delegation headed to France to see Yasser Arafat, but it was unclear whether they would have access to the ailing leader after the hospital restricted
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Â· Prisoners driven to Fatah leader's compound Â· Hamas members excluded from amnesty
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/11/04) - The new head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Mahmoud Abbas, escaped unharmed Sunday when militants burst into a mourning tent for the late Yasser Arafat firing assault rifles, killing two security guards
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, suffering from a serious but mystery illness, was flown to France and rushed to a military hospital for treatment Friday - ending
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He shook the world by demanding justice for the Palestinians. But Arafat's defiance ruined his chances to win them independence
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat, weakened by what doctors think may be leukemia, flew to  France for treatment on Friday from the besieged West Bank  headquarters where he had been pinned for over 2-1/2 years.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat left the West Bank early Friday in a Jordanian military helicopter on his way to receive treatment in Paris for an ailment that has left him haggard and weak.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat is "very, very sick" and the ex-guerrilla who for  decades symbolized a struggle for statehood is slipping in and  out of consciousness, officials and medics said on Thursday.
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Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti was transferred to the general population in his prison in southern Israel Wednesday, an Israeli official said, ending almost three years of separation from other Palestinian prisoners.
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CLAMART, France  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat, weakened by what doctors say may be leukemia, left the  West Bank for the first time in 2-1/2 years on Friday and flew  to France for treatment in a military hospital.
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Over the years, Yasser Arafat was the subject of some pretty bad jokes. When he returned to the Gaza Strip in triumph in 1994 after the PLO signed the Oslo peace accords with Israel, Palestinians
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An ailing Yasser Arafat &#151; too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping &#151; agreed to leave his battered West Bank compound for the first time in more than two years and fly to Paris for urgent medical treatment.
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VILLACOUBLAY, France Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was brought to France on Friday and rushed to a military hospital for treatment of a mysterious illness, which has forced him to leave his West Bank headquarters for the first time in nearly
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JERUSALEM -- Egypt yesterday freed an Israeli convicted of spying, in exchange for the release of six Egyptian detainees in a prisoner swap that signaled warmer ties between the countries. The exchange added to the surge in regional diplomacy since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died last month.