James Lileks has perfectly summed up both Arafat and the UN.
All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.
There is nothing else about Arafat in today's "Bleat" by Lileks, a genuinely funny man, because what else needs to be said? However, he also makes a good point about Russian special forces troops moving many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation: "But arms smuggling? In defiance of the UN? I’ll believe it when I see it in the New York Times."
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