PLO leader and presidential candidate Yasser Arafat casts his vote in this January 20, 1996 photo in the Anas Ibn Malik high school in Gaza City during the first general election for a legislative council and a president to govern the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people's plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday Nov. 11, 2004 at age 75. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)