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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Death of Yasser Arafat: a documentary casts doubt


Yasser Arafat who died in 2004 in Paris he is dead murdered? According to analyzes carried out in a laboratory in Switzerland, the PLO leader was poisoned with polonium, a radioactive substance. These analyzes were conducted on biological samples taken from the personal effects of the Palestinian leader, returned to his widow, Suha, the Percy military hospital.  "The conclusion is that we found (level) of polonium significant in these samples," says in the documentary François Bochud, director of the Insitute for Radiation Physics of Lausanne in a documentary made ​​after nine months of investigation and broadcast Tuesday on Al-Jazeera.Yasser Arafat fell ill in his headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, besieged by the Israeli army, died November 11, 2004 to Percy. His death remained a mystery, the 50 physicians who took turns at his bedside did not specify the exact reason for the rapid deterioration of his condition. Palestinians have accused Israel of having poisoned him. To confirm the thesis of a death by polonium, should exhume his remains and analyze them. "If (Suha Arafat) wants to know what happened to her husband, explains Françoi Bochud, it will find a sample (...). Exhume Mr. Arafat will provide a sample that should have a high concentration of polonium he was poisoned. " Polonium is the substance from which have been poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Livtenko, died in 2006 in London.

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