Yasser Arafat suffered a mild heart attack last week that was kept under wraps, a British newspaper reported. According to a report Wednesday in the Guardian, Palestinian officials called the Palestinian Authority president’s condition the flu for fear of causing panic in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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