Does Arafat Have AIDS?

A gay www site 365 gay has some informed speculation on Yasser Arafat's illness.

(Paris) As French doctors continue to run tests on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat some medical authorities not connected directly to his case are suggesting that he may have HIV/AIDS.

I have suspected as much for quite some time.

In addition I did some research on the following points on 31 Oct which I am in agreement with:

But, with leukemia and other forms of cancer ruled out, the list of possible diseases is narrowing.

A low blood platelet count is a sign of a weakened immune system. In addition to cancer, the low count could be attributed to bleeding ulcers, colitis, liver disease, lupus, or HIV. It is believed that ulcers and colitis have already been ruled out.

Arafat has lost a considerable amount of body weight. Hopital d'Instruction des Armees de Percy, southwest of Paris, also has some of France's best HIV/AIDS doctors.

Arafat is going to lose a lot of his cachet as this gets better known. The article finishes with:

Ion Pacepa, who was deputy chief of Romanian foreign intelligence under the Ceaucescu regime and who defected to the West in 1978, says in his memoirs that the Romania government bugged Arafat and had recordings of the Arab leader in orgies with his body guards.

If the suggestions that Arafat has AIDS are true, it is doubtful it would be made public.

Arafat's sexual prefrences matter not a whit to me. Where this will hurt him is with "devout" muslims.

Muslims who make it so difficult for gay Palestinians that they prefer to live in Israel. In fact those muslims like to kill gays.

I suppose if Arafat has dishonored the Palestinians they are going to have to kill him.