Apotheosis of a Mass Murderer

A Palestinian girl holds a picture of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a ceremony commemorating the 1st anniversary of his death in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on Friday, Nov.11, 2005

People light candles next to a portrait of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in central Paris November 11, 2005. Palestinians around the world commemorated the first anniversary of their iconic leader's death

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas(R) and Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei lay the foundation stone of a new Arafat museum-mosque-mausoleum complex marking the anniversary of the death of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, at the Muqataa headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah

Palestinian Fatah activists hold a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a rally in Gaza City to mark the first anniversary of his death. Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas pledged to continue Arafat's struggle towards a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem

Palestinians light candles and hold portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, to mark the first anniversary of his death

Palestinian youths shout slogans as some of them hold portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a rally organized by Rafat's Fatah movement to mark the first anniversary of his death, in the West Bank town of Hebron, Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. Arafat died in a French hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, after a two-week illness

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's picture during a rally at a Palestine refugee camp near Damascus November 11, 2005, on the first anniversary of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death.