Arafat Dies at 75 Story aired: Thursday, November 11, 2004
Yasser Arafat's body is being flown from Paris to Egypt where his funeral is due to take place on Friday. The military style funeral will be held in a mosque on the grounds of Cairo's airport. Afterwards his remains will be flown to the West Bank for burial outside his ruined headquarters in Ramallah.
Arafat, a Nobel laureate who embodied the Palestinian struggle is both revered and reviled throughout the world.
Click the listen link to hear Boston Globe correspondent Charlie Raden on the line from Tel Aviv reporting on the situation in the West Bank.
