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11/08/2004:

"Arafat to be Transferred to Egypt"

Israeli Prepare Gaza For Funeral

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is under treatment at Percy military hospital near Paris, will be transfered to a hospital near Cairo, the Egyptian capital.

An anonymous Palestinian official disclosed that the Palestinian Administration decided on a hospital in Cairo so that he could be returned to Palestine immediately after his death. The same official added that doctors have diagnosed Arafat with a liver insufficiency. French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, who visited Arafat at Percy, said yesterday: "Arafat is alive. His position is very complicated and serious but stable at the moment." His response to a question about Arafat's brain death, "This can not be said."

Full Article : zaman.com