Yasser Arafat: France opens murder inquiry
 

Makes you wonder how many more leaders/key figures are taken down this way. I'm expecting Putin to get sick

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19402767

French prosecutors have opened a murder inquiry into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004.

His family launched a case last month over claims that he was poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive element.

Swiss scientists hired by a documentary crew say they found traces of polonium on some of Arafat's belongings.

The medical records of Arafat, who died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004, said he had a stroke resulting from a blood disorder.

However, many Palestinians continue to believe that Israel poisoned him. Israel has denied any involvement.

Others allege that he had Aids.

French officials on Tuesday said prosecutors had agreed to begin a murder inquiry, but they have yet to appoint an investigating judge.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the French legal system is obliged to take the matter very seriously because of its diplomatic aspect, but the medical profession is generally sceptical about claims of radioactive poisoning.

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat told the AFP news agency that the Palestinian Authority welcomed the inquiry.

He said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had officially requested the help of French President Francois Hollande in the investigation.

"We hope there will be a serious investigation to reveal the whole truth, in addition to an international investigation to identify all the parties involved in Arafat's martyrdom," he said.

The inquiry stems from an Al-Jazeera TV documentary broadcast early in July.

The channel commissioned Lausanne University's Institute of Radiation Physics to analyse Arafat's belongings.

Arafat's wife, Suha, supplied clothing for the examination.

The scientists told the channel that they had found "significant" traces of polonium-210 present in items including Arafat's trademark keffiyeh.

Their lawyers have said they want a French investigation to work alongside international inquiries being conducted by the Lausanne scientists.

Last week, the Swiss institute said it had received permission from Suha Arafat and the Palestinian authorities to travel to Ramallah to analyse his remains for traces of polonium.

Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organisation for 35 years and became the first president of the Palestinian Authority in 1996.

He fell violently ill in October 2004 and died two weeks later, at the age of 75, in a French military hospital.

French doctors bound by privacy rules did not release information about Arafat's condition.

In 2005, the New York Times obtained a copy of Arafat's medical records, which it said showed he died of a massive haemorrhagic stroke that resulted from a bleeding disorder caused by an unknown infection.

Experts who reviewed the records told the paper that it was highly unlikely that he had died of Aids or had been poisoned.

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Notice how the BBC quickly pump out some propaganda to throw people off the scent and prevent them from realizing that this is happening all of the time

Why do so many African leaders die in office?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19356410

"African presidents, before they have been elected, will have led a relatively disadvantaged life, and disadvantageous lifestyle, and that will impact on their life expectancies at subsequent ages,"

Indeed, and by then nobody will care, and they'll all be getting fooled by some other stunt :2 cents:

I did find this rather interesting.... And I honestly wouldn't be a bit surprised if he was in fact intentionally killed.

However, any trace of "polonium" in his body means only that there was polonium in his body. This could mean he was intentionally killed by the Israelis, any number of terrorist groups, or maybe... It means the PLO was playing with uranium ores.

I must admit I know very little about Yasser Arafat. Looks like that's what my next book might be about.

I must be missing your point.... They have ten people and only one died from anything odd - Meles Zenawi who died from a "sudden infection". However, that might not be really odd in Africa where their medical care is rather limited. Strokes, cancer, long illness... Hard the cause for foul play.

His death was about 50 years overdue so who cares.

Someone tell the dumbfucks at the BBC that it's AIDS, not Aids.

Slade is the creepiest band in the history of the world... Personal observation.

All a bit too convenient :2 cents:

he's still not sick :2 cents:

who the fuck cares how that piece of shit died... just be glad that he is...

i thought this was a new thread lol

i was reading a few months ago that they were looking into exhuming the body

To bad he's not still alive so we could drone him.

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