The cartoon that may have cost al-Ali's life.

The first man (from right to left) says: "Have you seen Rashida Mehran (meaning Yasser Arafat's girl friend)?" No," says the second man. Trying to trap him, the first man asks if he knows her. "No," says the second man. The first man then says: "You have not seen her; you don't know her. Then how did you become her enemy and the PLO's Minister of Culture, you son of a bitch?"