Did terrorist leader Yasir Arafat succumb to AIDS?(Insider Report)(acquired immuno deficiency syndrome)

While world leaders were tripping over each other to offer eulogies casting PLO terrorist chief Yasir Arafat as a statesman and peacemaker, the November 12 New York Times publicly floated a question that many observers of Arafat's mysterious ailment had been asking for some time. In an article entitled, "Secrecy by Aides and Silence by Doctors Persists, and What Killed Ararat Is Still a Mystery," Elizabeth Rosenthal, a medical doctor, broached the possibility that the PLO leader, who died in a Paris hospital, may have succumbed to AIDS.

"Even after Yasir Arafat's death this morning," Dr. Rosenthal's piece began, "French health officials continued their stony silence about exactly what disease killed the Palestinian leader. And so the man who lived so much of his life simply and in the public eye, died mysteriously, surrounded by secrecy."

After noting that "aides disclosed that he was suffering from a low platelet count and had undergone a platelet transfusion," Rosenthal stated that "low platelet counts in the blood are a common finding in a wide range of afflictions, including severe infections, liver disease, end stage cancer and even AIDS." "There are various possibilities about why Mr. Arafat's inner circle would want to keep the cause of his death a secret," Rosenthal continued. "Perhaps he suffered from a disease that they considered embarrassing."

Having thus mentioned the "A" word, the Times did not go further and mention ...