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July 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mrs Arafat, who refused to consent to an autopsy immediately after her
husband’s death, has lived abroad for years and is estranged from most of
the Palestinian leadership.
Mr Abbas and his aides have sent conflicting messages about their intentions.
Earlier this week, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said Abbas made a
final decision to allow an autopsy.
On Thursday, members of a committee investigating Arafat’s death were less
forceful. Justice Minister Ali Mohanna said Arafat’s nephew, Nasser
al-Kidwa, asked for the full report from the Swiss lab, and a decision on
further testing would only be made after reviewing the report.
While backtracking on an autopsy, Arafat’s doctors for the first time released
their detailed treatment notes covering the 18-day period when they cared
for him at his Israeli-besieged West Bank compound before he was airlifted
to a French military hospital on Oct. 29, 2004.
Based on the doctors’ report and later test results in France, Arafat had
escaped many of the chronic afflictions, like diabetes, common in his age
group. A non-smoker, he weighed 150 pounds. He was taking medication for
chronic tremors whose cause was not explained further. They wrote that he
suffered from a gallstone and had vitiligo, a loss of pigmentation of the
skin.
Arafat’s downward spiral began just before midnight on Oct. 11, 2004. Two
hours after a late supper, he vomited but had no other complaints, the
report said.
His doctors diagnosed him with viral gastroenteritis. He improved with
medication and went about his daily routine, and four days later even joined
in the dawn-to-dusk fast of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
But there was persistent vomiting and diarrhoea, and he began feeling weaker.
His blood platelet count dropped, and on Oct 28, his medical team – by now
consisting of doctors from Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Palestine – decided to
send him abroad. The next morning, he was flown to France, where he died on
Nov 11, 2004.
An Israeli specialist, Dr Joseph Zimmerman, who reviewed the Ramallah medical
file at the request of The Associated Press news agency, said Arafat’s early
symptoms were not consistent with viral gastroenteritis.
“I don’t think that this common garden-variety viral infection would
progress to such an extent and result in a fatality,” said Dr
Zimmerman, a senior physician at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem.
Dr Zimmerman said poisoning seemed unlikely, even by a radioactive agent such
as polonium-210. He pointed out that Arafat’s platelet counts dropped
suddenly and stayed low and that he eventually exhibited signs of liver
dysfunction.
“This is not typical of poisoning,” Dr Zimmerman said, adding that a
bacterial infection could have caused these symptoms.
French doctors said Arafat died of a massive stroke and suffered from a blood
condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC. The
records were inconclusive about what brought about the DIC, which has
numerous possible causes, including infections and liver disease.
Source: AP
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