Aides trying to seize power from Arafat, says wife
Despite the row, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas left the West Bank for Jordan, to get a flight to Paris to visit Mr Arafat and consult with his doctors.
In a screaming telephone call from Mr Arafat’s hospital bedside, Suha Arafat told Al-Jazeera television that Mr Arafat’s aides were conspiring to usurp her husband as Palestinian leader.




