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Compare this from The Washington Post:

Under cloudy skies and drizzling rain, crowds gathered in the streets of the capital to watch the hearse containing the mahogany casket make the five-mile trip to the cathedral from the Rotunda.

By the time public viewing ended at 8 a.m. EDT, more than 104,000 people had filed past the casket in the hushed Rotunda, according to U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer. As they did so, the silence was broken only by the shuffling of feet and the periodic changing of the joint honor guard composed of members of the armed services.

Well before the funeral service began, mourners had staked out spots near the National Cathedral around the intersections of Massachusetts and Wisconsin Avenues NW. They sat on the curb, rain jackets and coolers by their sides, cameras and video recorders ready to capture the moment of history that soon would pass before them.

With this from Yahoo News:

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in chaotic scenes of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.

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Firing into the air, Palestinian security men struggled earlier to remove the coffin from the aircraft and then held on to it tight as they placed it on a vehicle that plied its way through a dense throng of weeping mourners.

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At least nine Palestinians were wounded by shots fired by the security forces or gunmen. Medics said hundreds were treated after fainting or for minor injuries during the crush.

If the Palestinians can't conduct a dignified funeral, why should we expect them to be capable of running a country?