Amid Grief and Chaos, Arafat Is Buried in West Bank
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It was an extraordinary scene today, with thousands of Palestinians climbing the walls of his compound, surging around his coffin and trying to bear it aloft.
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His successors wanted an orderly funeral. They brought in bulldozers to clean up Yasir Arafat&#39;s broken-down headquarters in Ramallah.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the place where he spent his last years as a prisoner, buried in a huge and chaotic outpouring of grief for the man who embodied the Palestinian people&#39;s dream of statehood.
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Yasser Arafat was hovering "between life and death" in a coma Friday, no worse but also no better than he was a day earlier, according to Palestinian and French officials. In the event he dies, the Palestinian leader has asked to be buried in Jerusalem, but Israeli officials are determined to keep him out.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The agreement yesterday between Palestinians and Israelis that Yasser Arafat will be buried amid his ruined headquarters may represent the first faint ray of hope for a fresh start toward peace in the post-Arafat era, Middle East officials and observers say.
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Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in chaotic scenes of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.
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When Yasser Arafat dies, the Palestinians want him to be buried in Jerusalem. But the Israelis have drawn up plans to facilitate a funeral in Gaza.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a critical  condition as uncertainty mounted over who might succeed him and  where he might be buried should he die.
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THE approaching death of Yasser Arafat will throw most Palestinians into mourning but breathe new life into the failed Middle East peace process.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of mourners  converged on Yasser Arafat's compound in chaotic scenes on  Friday before their revered leader was to be buried in the  place where Israeli forces trapped him until his final days.
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(New York -WABC, November 7, 2004) - Israel has made plans to bury Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip. Arafat wanted to be buried in the Arab section of Jerusalem, but Israel firmly denied his request.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be buried at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah when he dies, Palestinian officials said Wednesday.
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As Yasir Arafat lay in a deep coma, Palestinian officials asked Israel for permission to bury him in Ramallah.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Surging frenzied crowds  forced a hasty burial of Yasser Arafat on Friday, preventing  mourners like student Deya Jamal from paying their last  respects to the charismatic Palestinian president.
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Gravely ill and comatose, Yasser Arafat clung to life in a French hospital Friday as Israeli officials vowed to prevent the Palestinian leader from being buried in Jerusalem, stoking
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Yasser Arafat remained in a coma on  Friday as a row brewed over where he would be buried and  questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinians  paid tumultuous homage to leader Yasser Arafat on Friday,  surging around the helicopter that flew his coffin home to the  West Bank in a chaotic scene of guns and tears.