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CAUSE OF DEATH SECRET AMID AIDS RUMOR
By URI DAN and ANDY SOLTIS
November 13, 2004 -- Yasser Arafat's death closed one chapter in Mideast history but opened a new book — the mystery of what killed him.
Arafat was buried without the autopsy demanded by his longtime doctor — while his French doctors are barred from even hinting about the cause of death.
The issue threatens to haunt the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of fanciful accusations that Arafat was poisoned.
"We will respond to the assassination of the leader and symbol by striking the depth of the Israeli entity," a new Palestinian terrorist group, the Yasser Arafat Brigades, blustered yesterday.
What is known is that for years Arafat was plagued by various ailments, possibly including Parkinson's disease.
But his health took a sharp downturn Oct. 12 when, according to aides, he caught a cold which developed into nausea. He was examined by Egyptian and Tunisian medical teams, who said he was recovering.
But on Oct. 27, Arafat collapsed and lost consciousness for 10 minutes. Two days later he was rushed to French military hospital for yet more tests.
By then, rumors were circulating blaming his condition on everything from AIDS to poison.
Early in Arafat's illness, former White House speechwriter David Frum suggested Arafat was being treated in France, rather than an Arab country, because that would ensure his AIDS would remain a secret.
Homosexuality and bisexuality are regarded as sins, if not crimes, in the Arab and Muslim world. "We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight — possibly as much as one-third of all his body weight," Frum wrote on National Review Online.
"We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does that sound like?"
Frum, who coined the phrase "Axis of Evil" for President Bush in 2002, cited a report from a Romanian intelligence officer who claimed Arafat was caught on surveillance tapes in the 1970s having sex with a male bodyguard.
France's severe medical secrecy laws limit his doctors to making only minimal comments — even after his death.
During his final week, they disclosed he was in a coma, using a respirator and feeding tube and then suffered a brain hemorrhage. The most specific clues they gave were that Arafat had a low white blood-cell count.
But routine blood and urine tests and various scans diagnose most illnesses within a few days — and three weeks is an extraordinarily long time for Arafat's condition to remain a mystery.
That fuels speculation that the more than a dozen doctors who'd seen Arafat — and Arafat's widow Suha — know the cause but won't say.
Several things have been suggested, including rare diseases such as TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura), which is linked to anemia and kidney failure.
Arafat may also have had a genetic susceptibility to cancer. His sister died of cancer, and his brother Fathi is being treated for advanced cancer in Cairo.
Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi, who treated Arafat since the 1970s, said Thursday: "I still don't rule out that Arafat was poisoned."
But Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said poison had been ruled out.
He said the French doctors "by and large favor the explanation" that Arafat's death was due to his age and being "incarcerated in a very small office" in Ramallah.
The Israeli paper Yediot Ahronoth reported that the cause of death won't remain secret for long because bone marrow and blood samples have been sent to U.S. and European clinics for tests whose results will be known in a month. Citing sources close to French ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^President Jacques Chirac, it said the likely cause was blood cancer.
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