Palestinian terrorist and leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse.
"We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she told Reuters in Paris.
Laughable but believe it or not the usual western apologists for Arab terrorism and obviously the Arabs themselves believe it.
But all this comes at a volatile time in the climate of the so-called peace talks and it doesn't take much thought to work out its being used to influence those talks in favour of the so-called Palestinians.
His widow did not accuse any country or person, and acknowledged that the former terrorist and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation had many enemies, although she noted that Israel had rightly branded him an 'obstacle to peace' so there is little doubt that its Israel in the sights of a new investigation.
But who cares anyway? A terrorist, murderer, agitator and trouble maker. Arafat contributed to the trouble and strife that the Middle East is still contending with to this day, so how and why he died is in reality irrelevant.
In fact, as a former terrorist we at this blog are just glad he is dead and wish that all terrorists could join him.
A team of so-called experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital's Institute of Radiation Physics,opened Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah last November, and took samples from his body to seek evidence of alleged poisoning. Despite him being buried for over 8 years and his body well into decomposition.
Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo interim peace accords with Israel and led a subsequent uprising after the failure of talks in 2000 on a comprehensive agreement.
Allegations of foul play surfaced immediately and conspiracy theories.
Arafat had foes among his own people, but many Palestinians pointed the finger at Israel, Obviously which had besieged him in his Ramallah headquarters for the final two and a half years of his life.
When in doubt blame Israel.
The Israeli government has strongly denied any role in his death, noting that he was 75 years old and had an unhealthy lifestyle.
"This is more soap opera than science, it is the latest episode in the soap in which Suha opposes Arafat's successors," Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said.
The Swiss scientists' report was actually quite cautious, despite the hysteria coming from the Arab world. It concluded: "Taking into account the analytical limitations aforementioned, mostly time lapse since death and the nature and quality of the specimens, the results moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210."
If poisoning was the cause of death many countries could have been the source, said sources, not just Israel, but many. Also someone in Arafat's immediate entourage must have slipped a miniscule dose of the deadly isotope probably as a powder into his drink, food, eye drops or toothpaste.
Arafat fell ill in October 2004, displaying symptoms of acute gastroenteritis with diarrhea and vomiting. At first Palestinian officials said he was suffering from influenza.
He was flown to Paris in a French government plane but fell into a coma shortly after his arrival at the Percy military hospital in the suburb of Clamart, where he died on Nov. 11.
The official cause of death was a massive stroke but French doctors said at the time they were unable to determine the origin of his illness. No autopsy was carried out.
Also many experts have questioned whether Arafat could have died of polonium poisoning, pointing to a brief recovery during his illness that they said was not consistent with radioactive exposure. They also noted he did not lose all his hair, something that occurs with radioactive polonium poisoning.
Suha Arafat called for an investigation inside the Muqata Palestinian government headquarters and said she and her daughter, Zahwa, would pursue the case through the courts in France and elsewhere until the perpetrators were brought to justice.
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