The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Wednesday she wants his body exhumed to find out whether he was poisoned after tests showed high levels of a radioactive substance on some of his personal belongings.
Suha Arafat told CNN she is requesting the body be exhumed “to make sure 100% of the existence of polonium.”
A Swiss doctor said Wednesday they found high levels of toxic polonium-210 on some of Arafat’s belongings, though it does not mean he suffered radiation poisoning.
“We have evidence there is too much polonium, but we also have hints from the medical records that this may not be the case,” said Francois Bochud, director of the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland. “The only way to resolve this anomaly would be by testing the body.”
Suha Arafat said she had not made an official request to the Palestinian Authority for exhumation because no official request is needed. The Palestinian Authority said Wednesday that it would not object to exhuming the body from its tomb if Arafat’s family approves.
‘Polonium’ and ‘AIDS’ must be pronounced the same way in Arabic.
if he was it was their own people.he was a dud and a evil man .30 yrs to late if u ask me
Let’s hope so— that murderous villain deserved to go out in slow misery.
– own bile.
Who knows whether he was poisoned, and who cares? The one certainty in this is that whatever the exhumation proves, the report will cast total culpability on the Great Satan and the Little Satan.