I just saw an Agence-France Presse article claiming that Arafat was dead, a tad sketchy.
Edit: Just tried linking to it and the link is gone...I originally saw it on
www.marketwatch.com
Regardless of whether people support him or not, this man has been a stalwart symbol of all that is going on in the Middle East (think of how many Israeli PMs we have gone through). Castro, Arafat, Hussein - these are all names I grew up with and they are all fading into history. Weird.