A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the hilly
Arafat site reports that Nigerian pilgrims used the occasion to pray for themselves, their families and Nigeria.
After a hot sunny start to the day as pilgrims made their way from Mina to
Arafat on the second day of Hajj, the weather suddenly changed in the afternoon with heavy rain and thunder storms.
Bush had contacted Saudi officials after a meeting with former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during which
Arafat's liquidation was discussed, and Saudi authorities consented, Bassam Abu Sharif told Shehab news agency.
Arafat Day is observed by Muslims across the globe.
RAMALLAH, Palestine: A museum dedicated to Yasser
Arafat, including the room where the Palestinian leader spent much of his final years under Israeli siege, will open Wednesday ahead of his death's anniversary.
A center in the Swiss city of Lausanne had tested biological samples taken from
Arafat's personal belongings given to his widow after his death, and found "abnormal levels of polonium" - an extremely radioactive toxin, but stopped short of saying that he had been poisoned by it.
For most Israelis, the late Yasser
Arafat with his trademark black-and-white keffiyeh represents the embodiment of the "arch-terrorist".
As part of that investigation, French investigators had
Arafat's remains exhumed and ordered genetic, toxicology, medical, anatomical and radiation tests on them.
Arafat in the early '90s persuaded the Palestinian Liberation Organisation that it was time to accept the reality of the Israeli state, and to sue for a just peace.
Palestinian officials said a report they received from Russia on the role of radioactive polonium in
Arafat's death was inconclusive.
They made the accusation days after tests showed
Arafat "probably" died after being poisoned with the radioactive polonium-210.
PALESTINE chiefs yesterday insisted former leader Yasser
Arafat was murdered and again pointed the finger at Israel.
PARIS -- French prosecutors have opened a murder inquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, s told Tuesday.
