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PFLP leader Ahmad Jibril on Al-Manar TV
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| By Israel Insider staff July 12, 2007 |
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Ahmad Jibril, Secretary-General of the PFLP General Command, said on Al-Manar TV on July 5, 2007 that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his team told him that the French medical inquest into the death of Yasser Arafat concluded that he had died of AIDS.
Following is the transcript of the interview, in which Jibril questions the entourage of Abbas ["Abu Mazen"] about the investigation of the death of the PLO leader, expressing his initial assumption that Arafat was the victim of an Israeli assassination plot. "When Abu Mazen came to Damascus with his team, I asked them: 'What happened to the investigation into the death of Abu Ammar [Arafat]? The Israelis killed him. He was my colleague ever since 1965 and used to sleep at my home. He and I followed the same path. Is it conceivable that when Rafiq Al-Hariri was killed, all hell broke loose, even though he was just a merchant in Saudi Arabia, who later entered politics, whereas the death of Yasser Arafat, who for 40 years had been carrying his gun from one place to another, is not investigated? Is this conceivable?'"
But Abbas' men, after a moment of hesitation, told Jibril that his assumptions about the cause of Arafat's death were incorrect. "They were silent, and then one of them said to me: 'To be honest, the French gave us the medical report that stated that the cause of Abu Ammar's death was AIDS.' I am not saying this, they did. Now they pretend that they miss Yasser Arafat, and complain that [Hamas] entered his house in [Gaza] and so on... I say to every honorable member of the Fatah movement that he should be happy that we got rid of the plague, which had been imposed upon them and upon the Palestinian people. The Fatah movement now has an opportunity to renew itself."
View the interview clip from Al-Manar, via MEMRI. |
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