“The widow of Yasser Arafat has called on the Palestinian Authority to exhume the body of the former Palestinian leader in a bid to verify suggestions that he may have been poisoned with polonium, a highly radioactive substance……. revealing the findings of a Swiss forensic institute that examined some of Mr Arafat’s belongings that were preserved by his widow since his death in 2004…..According to al-Jazeera, the scientists found unexplained traces of polonium-210 in his clothes and other effects used by the former leader after he fell ill. The institute….” The foregoing is from the Financial Times….click here to read story
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“…..The Palestinian leader died at a military hospital outside Paris in November 2004 of what French doctors called a massive brain hemorrhage — weeks after he fell violently ill at his West Bank compound…Experts found what Bochud characterized as “very small” quantities of polonium, an isotope that is naturally present in the environment. But there were higher quantities of polonium in Arafat’s underwear and hospital clothing…..Polonium is best known for causing the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a one-time KGB agent turned critic of the Russian government, in London in 2006. Litvinenko ingested tea laced with the substance..”
