The Times Online tells the heart wrenching story of Suha Arafat- aka Piggyfat– who has been left virtually penniless after the death of her terrorhubby.
She claims she has to scrape by on “only” £5,000 a month.
As Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, lay dying in a Paris hospital in November 2004, his wife Suha was told to keep talking to him. It was the last hope of bringing him out of his coma.
Or keeping him in it.
“I talked to him about the things he cherished most,” she said last week in her first interview since his death. “Palestine, Jerusalem . . . his childhood and his mother.
Sex with little boys.
We played him his favourite verses from the Koran too, but he never regained consciousness.”
Arafat’s illness put her under a harsh spotlight. Reports claimed Suha was haggling over the terms of a will and pressing senior Palestinian officials for millions of dollars to sustain her supposedly lavish lifestyle after her husband had gone.
“These were the worst days of my life,” said Suha, who now lives quietly in Malta with her mother and 12-year-old daughter Zahwa. Arafat left no will, no properties and no millions, she said.
According to Suha, 44, she receives a pension from the Palestinian Authority of $10,000 (£5,000) a month – a large sum to many Palestinians but far from the exorbitant figures being bandied around on the eve of Arafat’s death.
I guess she is referring to the estimated figures of between $50,000 and $100,000 a month.
Suha had been accused of living it up in Paris as Arafat braved an Israeli siege of his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
She was rumoured to own properties in the French capital and to spend her time shopping with the wife of Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire Saudi arms dealer, and the sister of the King of Morocco.
Not to mention the 1 million euro luxury home reportedly purchased for her by Libyan leader Muammar “I gave up on the spelling long ago” Gaddafi.
None of it was true, she said.
“I have met Mrs Khashoggi once and never went shopping with her,” said Suha. “I own no property whatsoever. My rented apartment in Paris is an old, ordinary building.”
While it seems that Ms Piggyfat learned a thing or two about boldfaced lying from her dead hubby, even if you accepted her story, she is receiving a whopping £5,000 a month!
