The Palestinian Authority has confirmed that it will exhume and re-examine the remains of their deceased former leader Yasser Arafat. The exhumation, and re-opening of the investigation related to Arafat’s potential poisoning, follow new reports in al-Jazeera after the publication was given access to the former Palestinian leader’s possessions. (Photo via Women in World Cinema) source
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I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids.Francois Bochud, director of the Institut de Radiophysique in Switzerland • Reporting on the condition of personal belongings of the late Yasser Arafat, the former Palestinian president. Bochud’s institute found that some of Arafat’s effects had an elevated level of polonium, a poisonous element. This has reportedly prompted a call from Arafat’s widow for his body to be exhumed for tests. Arafat died in France in 2004 of a unspecified condition (not revealed by French officials, citing privacy grounds); he was 75. Bochud also explicitly stated that Arafat’s medical reports aren’t themselves consistent with polonium poisoning, and that only by exhuming his body could the question be answered. And it’s a time-sensitive matter, to boot: “…we have to do it quite fast because polonium is decaying, so if we wait too long, for sure, any possible proof will disappear,” he told Al Jazeera. source (via • follow)
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