Arafat is Brain Dead

But you knew that already. Jerusalem Post has the whole story.

Earlier Thursday, French media outlets Proche Orient Info, a newspaper that covers the Middle East, and Radio Monte-Carlo reported that Arafat was taken off a life support machine by his doctors at about 5:30 p.m.

PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and several Palestinian officials quickly denied the report, insisting that Arafat's condition remained "critical but stable."

"I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was," Qurei said. "He is still in the intensive care unit."

Muhammed Rashid, a top Arafat aide in Paris, said the reports about Arafat's death were "completely untrue." He added: "President Arafat is alive, he's in stable condition and he's not in a coma."

He claimed that Arafat had even smiled at French President Jacque Chirac, who visited him on Thursday afternoon. "But this does not mean that President Arafat is in good health and hat he would be able to return to work," he added. "President Arafat is sick and exhausted."

Soon he will be totally exhausted to the ash heap of history.

The sooner the better.

The article goes on to say:

"The clinical situation following the first days after [Arafat's] admission has become more complicated. The patient's health requires appropriate treatment which necessitated his transfer during the afternoon of Wednesday, November 3, to a unit suitable for his pathology," Estripeau said.

I believe that would be called a morgue.