Arafat to Get Funeral in Egypt, Burial in West Bank
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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 encircled by the Israeli army 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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Leaders and dignitaries from around the world are headed to Cairo for the funeral of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian leader&#39;s casket arrived there today on board a plane from Paris.
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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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Palestinians say they&#39;ll honor Arafat&#39;s request by burying him in Jerusalem in the future. A checkered head scarf arranged the way Arafat wore his is planted on a stick at the grave.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be buried at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah when he dies, Palestinian officials said Wednesday.
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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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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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A ceremony is held at a French airport as the body of Yasser Arafat heads to the Middle East.
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CLAMART, FRANCE - When Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies, he can be buried in the Gaza Strip, Israel has decided. Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofax briefed the cabinet on Sunday about security preparations for the Arafat&#39;s funeral.
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Foreign dignitaries have paid a last tribute to Yasser Arafat, the founding father of Palestinian resistance, at a solemn funeral in Cairo, the city where he was born.
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Egypt, where Yasser Arafat began his  political life and where biographers say he was born, will host  a military funeral for the former Palestinian president on  Friday before his burial in the West Bank, officials said.
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Bulldozers have begun clearing a section of Yasser Arafat&#39;s West Bank compound where officials say the Palestinian leader will be buried after he dies.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's body arrives in Cairo, amid preparations for his funeral there on Friday.
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Yasir Arafat's body was flown to Cairo to lie in state before a military funeral on Friday to be attended by Arab leaders.
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The following dignitaries are expected at Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo on Friday, according to Palestinian and Egyptian planners and other officials.
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Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s coffin is loaded onto an aircraft for it&#39;s flight to Cairo after being carried by a French military honor guard, foreground, at Villacoublay airbase south-west of Paris, Thursday Nov. 11, 2004.