JERUSALEM POST: Police to focus on J'lem security once Arafat dies

Police have prepared a plan for day-after-Yasser-Arafat called "A Different Reality," and once there is an official announcement that Arafat has died, police said, the country will go on heightened alert.

Police will immediately begin to beef up forces in conjunction with the IDF at junctions and entrances to cities throughout the country, with an emphasis on Jerusalem and its surroundings.

One of the police's biggest fears is the possibility that thousands of Palestinians will grab Arafat's body and will begin marching towards Jerusalem for burial on the Temple Mount. Last week, Insp.-Gen. Moshe Karadi dismissed warnings that Palestinians will march their leader's body to the capital, saying that Israel is ready for all possible scenarios.

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HAARETZ Ticker: French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin says Yasser Arafat is in his 'final hours'

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HAARETZ Ticker:

22:33 Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rudeinah: Arafat is expected to die within hours.
22:34 Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rudeinah: Should Arafat die in the coming hours, there will be an official funeral in Cairo on Fri.

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This has got to be an old quote:

Edward Abington, a former U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem who advises Arafat and other Palestinian leaders, described Arafat's medical condition as "pretty static." "People are waiting to see what happens," Abington said.

Even Abington, the poster child for "going native" in Webster's, isn't that out-of-touch and dense.

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Report: Experts say that doctors probably know what is wrong with Arafat by now, but they aren't being allowed to say what it is.