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Suha Arafat has been outspoken in her views

Blonde, convent-educated and with a rumoured penchant for designer suits, Suha Arafat makes an unlikely wife for the leader of the Palestinian resistance.

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In the days before his death, she was at the centre of a row with the temporary Palestinian leadership over access to the ailing Yasser Arafat in hospital.

She accused her husband's colleagues of conspiring against him and of trying "to bury Arafat while he is still alive".

Since their secret marriage in Tunis more than a decade ago, Mrs Arafat has certainly displayed a gift for undiplomatic outbursts.

In 2002, just before her husband condemned "all terrorist acts which target civilians", Suha Arafat seemingly endorsed suicide bombings.

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If she had a son, there would be "no greater honour" than to sacrifice him for the Palestinian cause, she told a London-based Saudi weekly.

"I hate the Israelis," she said in an interview a year earlier.

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