TESTS ARE IN: ARAFAT KILLED BY RADS Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned with it, which they said “moderately supports” polonium as the cause of his death. A 108-page report by the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, which was obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera, found unnaturally high levels of polonium in Arafat’s ribs and pelvis, and in soil stained with his decaying organs. The Swiss scientists, along with French and Russian teams, obtained the samples last November after his body was exhumed from a mausoleum in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Dave Barclay, a renowned UK forensic scientist and retired detective, told Al Jazeera that with these results he was wholly convinced that Arafat was murdered. “Yasser Arafat died of polonium poisoning,” he said. “We found the smoking gun that caused his death. What we don’t know is who’s holding the gun at the time.” aljazeera/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-study-polonium-found-arafats-bones-201311522578803512.html Yasser Arafat Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar was a Palestinian leader. Wikipedia Born: August 24, 1929, Cairo, Egypt Died: November 11, 2004, Clamart, France Spouse: Suha Arafat (m. 1990–2004) Children: Zahwa Arafat Previous offices: President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994–2004), More Awards: Nobel Peace Prize, Times Person of the Year, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 05:00:58 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015