Suha Arafat to fight Tunisia corruption charges

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VALLETTA, Nov 1 (AFP): Suha Arafat, the widow of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, told Monday that she would fight corruption charges against her in Tunisia and said she was a victim of the old regime. "I will fight it as I fought a lot of things," Arafat said in an interview in English at her home in Malta where she is currently living after Tunisian authorities said they had issued an international warrant for her arrest. "I was so much astonished, badly astonished actually because I was a victim of the Tunisian dictatorship," said the 48-year-old, adding that she had "not been informed officially" of any warrant and had read about it in the press. In Tunis, justice ministry spokesman Kadhem Zine el Abidine told that a court had issued an international warrant against Arafat, who was stripped of her Tunisian citizenship in 2007.