“Arafat was roaring like a tiger…”
David Frum was the first I’m aware of to suggest that Arafat is dying of AIDS:
Speaking of media bias, here’s a question you won’t hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?
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 1/3 of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?
Former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Pacepa tells in his very interesting memoirs that the Ceaucescu regime taped Arafat’s orgies with his body guards. If true, Arafat would a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world.
Now, an Israeli magazine offers some relevant quotes from Ion Pacepa’s memoirs.
November 8th, 2004 at 2:54 pm
If Arafat was going to get AIDS I would have thought that he would have contracted it a long time ago, not when he’s an old guy and his sex life, we must assume, has diminished.
November 8th, 2004 at 4:02 pm
True, but people can live with HIV for 10 years, and more.
November 8th, 2004 at 11:00 pm
What about Arafat’s wife and child? Wouldn’t they have been at risk for HIV? Or is it possible that Suha’s daughter isn’t really Arafat’s biological child? Speaking of strange “marriages”: his with Suha’s is one I don’t understand at all.