Tests Suggest Arafat Poisoned
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:15 PM EST
Swiss laboratory research released Tuesday suggests Yassir Arafat was poisoned with polonium in 2004.
Francois Bochud, head of the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne, told Al-Jazeera, “The conclusion was that we did find some significant polonium that was present in these samples.”
Arafat died on November 11, 2004, following several weeks of treatmentfor deteriorating health. He had been airlifted to France from his besieged headquarters in Ramallah.
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