A photo taken in the early 1970s shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who appears without his typical military outfit and traditional head dress, the keffiyeh, in the Lebanese capital Beirut, the then headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). (File photo, AFP)
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Yasser Arafat, chairperson of the PLO shown in a picture dated August 6, 1970 flashes V-sign from PLO headquarters in Amman. (File photo, AFP)
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The PLO chairperson Yasser Arafat attends a ceremony marking the end of a military training in Damascus, August 17, 1970. Yasser Arafat founded the Palestine Liberation Movement or Fatah in Kuwait in 1959 and gained control over the PLO in 1969. (File photo, AFP)
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What appears to be a pistol holster protrudes from under the jacket of Yasser Arafat as he clasps his hands over his head during his appearance before the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, November 13, 1974. One of Arafat's bodyguards reportedly told a newsman it was a gun. Sitting at the desk above Arafat are, from left, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, president of the General Assembly and Bradford Morse, Undersecretary-General. (File photo, AP)
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Yasser Arafat clasps his arms over his head as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, November 13, 1974. (File photo, AP)
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This picture taken on November 15, 1974 shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat speaking before the United Nations in New York. (File photo, AFP)
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PLO chairperson Yasser Arafat, centre, shown in a picture dated August 30, 1982 in Beirut, shakes hands with his Lebanese supporters, Nabih Berri, left, leader of the Shiite Moslem Amal movement supported by Syria, and Walid Jumblatt (2nd R) leader of the minority Druze community and head of the Socialist Progressive Party, in a farewell before the Palestinian leader escaped from Israeli-occupied Beirut. (Dominique Faget, AFP)
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Yasser Arafat, shown in a picture dated October 23, 1988 in Baghdad with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, centre and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a mini Arab-summit. (File photo, AFP)
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Palestine Liberation Organisation's leader Yasser Arafat, centre, shown in a picture dated December 17, 1988 in Tunis with his hand resting on a sub-machine gun. At right, PLO spokesperson Ahmed Abdel Rahman. (File photo, AFP)
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Yasser Arafat, right, wearing an eye patch, walks with Libyan revolutionary committee member Mustafa Kharoubi in Tripoli, Libya, April 9, 1992. He was at a hospital in Misratah where he was taken after surviving a plane crash in the Libyan desert. (File photo, AP)
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President Clinton presides over ceremonies in this September 13, 1993 file photo marking the signing of the 1993 peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians on the White House lawn with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and PLO chairperson Yasser Arafat, right. (File photo, AP)
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Yasser Arafat, right, President of the PLO addresses May 4, 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. (Patrick Baz, AFP)
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From foreground, PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin hold up their medals and diplomas after receiving the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo's City Hall, December 10, 1994. (File photo, AP)
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PLO leader and presidential candidate Yasser Arafat casts his vote, January 20, 1996 in the Anas Ibn Malik high school in Gaza City during the first general election for a legislative council and a president to govern the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (File photo, AP)
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From L-R: 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, March 13, 1996. (File photo, AFP)
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat waves to a cheering crowd who gathered to welcome him after his talks with US President Bill Clinton in Washington, at Rafah Border on Gaza Strip, February 27, 1998. (File photo, AFP)
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President Clinton meets with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Camp David, Md, July 19, 2000. (File photo, AP)
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A security guard stands by as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walks past sandbags following Friday Muslim prayers at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 21, 2002. In an interview to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Arafat pleaded for "no more war" with Israel and said he accepted a proposal made by former US president Bill Clinton as a framework for a peace deal. Repeating a phrase used recently by US President George W Bush, Arafat said "Enough is enough". (Awad Awad, AFP)
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat makes the victory sign as he leaves the confidence vote session of the Palestinian Legislative Council accompanied by Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas, right, at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, 29 April 2003. (File photo, AP)
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Yasser Arafat, left, embraces newly sworn in Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, during a swearing in ceremony for an emergency Palestinian Cabinet, inside Arafat's compound, in the West Bank town of Ramallah on October 7, 2003. (File photo, AP)
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This photo dated December 3, 2003 shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during an interview with AFP at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (File photo, AFP)
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This photo dated December 3, 2003 shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during an interview at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (File photo, AFP)
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This handout picture released by the Palestinian Authority's press office shows Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat writing in the sun outside his office at the Moqataa compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 26, 2004. (File photo, AP)
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, centre, and his wife Suha hold hands prior to Arafat's departure from his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah in this picture released by the Palestinian Authority Friday October 29, 2004. Arafat left for Paris to seek urgent medical treatment for a serious illness. (Palestinian Authority, Hussein Hussein, AP)
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