Yasser Arafat (R) walks nearby Cuban leader Fidel Castro during his visit in Cuba in December 1974.	Shown in a picture dated 15 November 1974 in New York, Yasser Arafat speaks before the United Nations.
US President Bill Clinton (C) stands between PLO leader Yasser Arafat (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin (L) as they shake hands 13 September 1993 at the White House in Washington DC. Rabin and Arafat shook hands for the first time after Israel and the PLO signed a historic agreement on Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories. Rabin was assassinated reportedly by a Jewish extremist 4 November 1995 after attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv.	Yasser Arafat (R) addresses 4 May 1994 in Cairo (from left) Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Russian Foreign Minister Vladimir Kosyrev, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa (behind) and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as they pressure the PLO chairman who refused to sign a chapter of the Gaza-Jericho autonomy agreement. At right, US Secretary of State Warren Christopher looks on.
Yasser Arafat shown in a picture dated 10 December 1994 in Oslo, with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin as they pose with their Nobel Peace prize, which they were awarded in the Oslo City Hall.	Palestinian Authority's President Yasser Arafat shown in a picture dated 5 April 1995 in Gaza City talking with his wife Souha during the first ceremony of the International Palestinian Child Day. It was the first public appearance of Mrs. Arafat with her husband since she announced her pregnancy five months ago.
Yasser Arafat (R) shown in a picture dated 23 October 1988 in Baghdad with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (C) and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a mini Arab-summit.	Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (front) wears his ear phones as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat passes behind him during the Euro-Mediterranean forum in Formentor 3 November 2001. Arafat and Peres met for the second time in 24 hours in an attempt to revive the Middle East peace process.
US President Bill Clinton (C) escorts Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) into the White House 15 October following Clinton's address in the Rose Garden. The leaders will meet at Wye Plantation in Maryland to try and revive the Middle East peace process.	From L-R: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, US President Bill Clinton, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, join their hands against 'terrorism' during a family photo at the end of the anti-terrorism summit in Sharm el Sheikh, 13 March 1996.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat kisses the Islamic Koran as he and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak exchange gifts at the start of their meeting at Erez Crossing at the edge of the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip, 11 July 1999. Barak and Arafat strongly reaffirmed their commitment to ending a century conflict between their peoples.	Yasser Arafat (L) shown in a picture dated 9 November 1995 in Tel-Aviv, in a first ever visit as Palestinian leader to the heart of Israel, pays a condolence visit to Leah Rabin, wife of the late Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. In the centre is Yossi Ginosar, a former high-ranking Shin Bet officer who arranged the visit. The photo is also one of the rare events that shows Arafat without his traditional keffiyeh.
Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says goodbye to well-wishers as he boards a Jordanian army helicopter at dawn at the Muqatta, his West Bank offices in Ramallah 29 October 2004, en route for Amman, from where he will fly to Paris to seek medical treatment. This will be the first time that Arafat, who has been under virtual house arrest imposed by the Israelis, has left the Palestinian territories since November 2001 and the first time he has been able to leave the Muqataa for some two and half years.	This file photo shows former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R), Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (C) and former US President Bill Clinton (L) as they arrive at Laurel Cabin for a Middle East Peace Summit meeting 11 July 2000, at Camp David, Maryland, the US Presidential mountaintop retreat. Never had a peace deal been so tantalizingly close as when the Israelis and Palestinians gathered at the Camp David summit, but one year later, the two sides are engaged in it-for-tat bloodletting on a massive scale, which is war in everything but name.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 19 September 1987 in Baghdad hugs Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat. Saddam took the number two job under president Ahamd Hassan al-Bakr, began purging the army of non-Baathist officers, ridding the political scene of Kurds and communists. When Bakr stepped down, officially for health reasons, the stage was set for Saddam, who became president on 16 July 1979. Fearing the impact of Tehran's Islamic revolution on Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim population, Saddam launched a war against Iran in 1980 to defend 'the eastern flank of the Arab nation from the Persian. But he only managed to obtain a ceasefire in 1988. On 2 August 1990, Saddam directed his army against Kuwait. In February 1991 a multinational coalition led by the United States chased Iraqi troops out of he emirate.	Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seen inside the helicopter after its landing at Percy Hospital 29 October 2004 in Clamart, south of Paris. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived in France for treatment following a blood problem.
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat attends a ceremony marking the end of a military training in Damascus 17 August 1970. Arafat found the Palestine Liberation Movement or Fatah in Kuwait in 1959 and gained control over the PLO in 1969.	A little boy is carried on his father's shoulders as he watches a giant portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat outside the Percy military hospital in the Paris southwestern suburb of Clamart, 7 November 2004. Arafat was admitted for treatment for an unidentified blood disorder after being evacuated from his West Bank headquarters.
Palestinians read of a notice naming those whose homes were demolished by the Israeli army, under a poster of ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, 7 November, 2004. Arafat continued to fight for his life in a French hospital today as his top lieutenants planned for a smooth transfer of power in the event of the veteran Palestinian leader's death.	An anti-zionist orthodox rabbi holds a portrait of 75 year-old Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat near the entrance of the Percy military hospital in the Paris southwestern suburb of Clamart, 7 November 2004. Arafat was admitted for treatment for an unidentified blood disorder after being evacuated from his West Bank headquarters and has been in a coma since last 3 November.