RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), who triumphantly forced his people's plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75.
The French military hospital where he had been treated for nearly a month said he died at 3:30 a.m. The Palestinian leader spent his final days there in a coma.
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good riddance, I say. That little weasel has been nothing but a pain in the ass. I hope his successor will stem the tide of Palestinian terrorism...but I doubt it.