Arafat's body to be exhumed to find out if he was poisoned
July 04, 2012  18:26

Yasser Arafat's body may be exhumed to allow for more testing of the causes of his death, the Palestinian president said today, after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a radioactive isotope in belongings the Palestinian leader is
said to have used in his final days. Arafat's widow, Suha, called for an autopsy in the wake of the lab's findings, first reported by the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. 

In an interview with the station, she did not explain why she waited nearly eight years to have the belongings, including a toothbrush and a fur hat, tested. At the time of his death, she refused to agree to an autopsy. 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.

 

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