Yasser Arafat ‘poisoned with Polonium’

Al Jazeera sent Arafat’s clothes to the institute for testing after obtaining
them from his widow as part of a nine-month investigation into the
revolutionary’s death.

Many theories have been advanced in the past for the cause of Arafat’s death,
and his case notes – which are alleged to show that he had suffered
cirrhosis – have never been released.

A former speech writer for President George W Bush claimed he had contracted
Aids from a homosexual relationship with one of his guards, while aides of
Arafat have alleged that he was poisoned by Mossad with Thallium, another
radioactive element.

British police and doctors initially believed that Litvinenko, a former KGB
officer who defected to London, was killed with Thallium, a misdiagnosis
because Polonium-210 is harder to detect with normal hospital equipment.

Some of Arafat’s symptoms, including vomiting, cirrhosis and coma, are
compatible with Polonium-210 poisoning, which results in a long and
agonising death. But it is not thought that Arafat suffered hair loss, which
is thought to happen in half of cases of significant exposure to the
element.

The dose allegedly ingested by Arafat was much smaller than the amount that
killed Litvinenko, making it even harder to detect.

British police dealing with the Litvinenko case have alleged that only a
sophisticated, state-backed intelligence agency could source Polonium-210 in
a form that could be used to poison someone.

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