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Arafat: The Prisoner President
(Financial Times) Igal Sarna - At the end of last year, the Kuwaiti Al-Watan newspaper published a story alleging that during a central council meeting of his Fatah movement, Arafat whipped out his pistol, pointed it at his forehead and shouted: "Should I kill myself? Will that make you all satisfied?" They had been talking about portfolios in the PA government and had suggested someone different from the man preferred by the president. "The rais feels as if everything is derived from him, all of the power of the successors, their lives, their wealth," an official from prime minister Abu Ala's office told me bitterly. "He has no respect for them. And he has no desire to see them succeed. If one of them will succeed, who will need the president?"