http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-speaks-under-arafat-banner_708753.html""Hope everyone saw presser. If not there, it was notable that Obama and Abbas spoke from under a banner bearing pictures of Arafat and Abbas. Also another big banner was hanging on wall nearby with Abbas kind of superimposed on Arafat," the White House pool reporter notes.
Arafat, as the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting has noted, "is known to many as the “father of modern terrorism.†Below is a timeline of some of the key events of his life and terrorist acts with which he was associated.""
