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(FILES) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attends a meeting with Fatah members 19 September 2003 in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Palestinian and Israeli officials steeled themselves 04 November 2004 for the possible death of Yasser Arafat as the veteran Palestinian leader lay critically ill in a Paris hospital. AFP PHOTO/JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK