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How they are fighting over Yasser Arafat's legacy!


* How they are fighting over Yasser Arafat's legacy! In a career of murder and mayhem mayhem (mā`hĕm, mā`əm), in common law, the crime of willfully injuring a person so as to diminish his or her capacity for self-defense. , he won complete power over the Palestinians, and all their money too, safely in his name in tax havens Tax Haven

A country that offers individuals and businesses little or no tax liability.

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There are several countries in the Caribbean that are considered tax havens.
. The moment he landed in a Paris hospital, perhaps in a coma or even brain-dead from some unspecified disease, the vultures swarmed. His wife, Suha, shrieked shriek  
n.
1. A shrill, often frantic cry.

2. A sound suggestive of such a cry.

v. shrieked, shriek·ing, shrieks

v.intr.
1. To utter a shriek.

2.
 on al-Jazeera television that everyone was conspiring against her and him. Well, she has a chic lifestyle and a luxury Paris apartment to keep up, and she will be wanting signatures on crucial banking and legal documents. And a handful of veterans of real conspiracy and terror flew in from the West Bank to lay hands on to seize; to assault.
- Shak.

See also: Hand
 the power ebbing away inside the hospital. This has the makings of a classic French farce--except that it is a tragic illustration of the flaws built into one-man despotism despotism, government by an absolute ruler unchecked by effective constitutional limits to his power. In Greek usage, a despot was ruler of a household and master of its slaves.  like Arafat's. Others are now seizing from him what he seized from others. Pity the Palestinians. Arafat has left them at the mercy of people like himself.
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