Friday, August 09, 2002

Poor Baby
South Africa's News24 amuses with 'Arafat is living in squalor' :
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa, who visited Israel and Palestine this week and met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has expressed horror at the condition in which he found Arafat living in his compound.

Holomisa went to Israel to study agricultural projects aimed at helping poor and rural communities.

He told City Press the conditions in which he found Arafat at his bombed-out compound are horrific .

"Arafat is basically living in squalor. It is pathetic that a leader of his calibre is forced to sleep on the floor in his office," said Holomisa. "I was surprised that a leader of a nation could find himself living under such conditions."
He's lucky he found himself living.