Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse.

"We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she told Reuters in Paris.

A team of experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital's Institute of Radiation Physics, opened Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah last November, and took samples from his body to seek evidence of alleged poisoning.

"This has confirmed all our doubts," said Suha Arafat, who met members of the Swiss forensic team in Geneva on Tuesday. "It is scientifically proved that he didn't die a natural death and we have scientific proof that this man was killed."

She did not accuse any country or person, and acknowledged that the historic leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization had many enemies. Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo interim peace accords with Israel and led a subsequent uprising after the failure of talks in 2000 on a comprehensive agreement.

Allegations of foul play surfaced immediately. Arafat had foes among his own people, but many Palestinians pointed the finger at Israel, which had besieged him in his Ramallah headquarters for the final two and a half years of his life.

The Israeli government has denied any role in his death, noting that he was 75 years old and had an unhealthy lifestyle.

An investigation by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television news channel first reported last year that traces of polonium-210 were found on personal effects of Arafat given to his widow by the French military hospital where he died.

That led French prosecutors to open an investigation for suspected murder in August 2012 at the request of Suha Arafat.

Forensic experts from Switzerland, Russia and France all took samples from his corpse for testing after the Palestinian Authority agreed to open his mausoleum.

The Israeli prime minister during arafats reign , Ariel Sharon should be investigated and prosecuted at the world court if found culpable

The bush administeration should also be brought to book for keeping silent since the spy programme the NSA is running has been ongoing since then and can't feign ignorance on the matter.

Justice for all.

musa ajebor: The Israeli prime minister during arafats reign , Ariel Sharon should be investigated and prosecuted at the world court if found culpable

The bush administeration should also be brought to book for keeping silent since the spy programme the NSA is running has been ongoing since then and can't feign ignorance on the matter.

Justice for all.

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Obasanjo who was the Nigerian president then should be arrested and prosecuted by V. I. O or Lastma

musa ajebor: The Israeli prime minister during arafats reign , Ariel Sharon should be investigated and prosecuted at the world court if found culpable

The bush administeration should also be brought to book for keeping silent since the spy programme the NSA is running has been ongoing since then and can't feign ignorance on the matter.

Justice for all.

Obasanjo who was the Nigerian president then should be arrested and prosecuted by V. I. O or Lastma

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Ikwerre mumutants.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/10430928/Tests-show-Yasser-Arafat-was-poisoned-with-polonium-widow-says.html


Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, may well have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, Swiss scientists have concluded in findings that may solve a 10-year riddle but torpedo the latest Middle East peace process.

His remains contained unusually high levels of polonium-210, a substance experts say can usually only be obtained from governments, months of forensic tests have shown.

The conclusions are likely to reawaken allegations that the late guerrilla leader - long a totemic symbol of the Palestinian national cause, was murdered, possibly by Israel which considered him a terrorist.

A Swiss forensic team has found that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium.

A team of experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital's Institute of Radiation Physics, opened Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah last November, and took samples from his body to seek evidence of alleged poisoning.

According to Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, the Swiss team discovered levels of polonium at least 18 times higher than normal in Arafat's ribs, pelvis and in the soil that absorbed his remains.

"We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," Arafat's widow, Suha Arafat, told Reuters in Paris.

"This has confirmed all our doubts," said Suha Arafat, who met members of the Swiss forensic team in Geneva on Tuesday. "It is scientifically proved that he didn't die a natural death and we have scientific proof that this man was killed."

She did not accuse any country or person, and acknowledged that the historic leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization had many enemies.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-assassination-of-yasser-arafat-had-been-ordered-by-the-israeli-cabinet/31781

What recent news reports fail to mention is that the extra-judicial assassination had been ordered by the Israeli cabinet in 2003. It was subsequently approved by the US which vetoed a United Nations Security Resolution condemning the 2003 Israeli Cabinet decision to “get rid of Arafat”. ”We will choose the right way and the right time to kill Arafat.”

(See Michel Chossudovsky, The Invasion of Gaza: “Operation Cast Lead”, Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence Agenda, Global Research, November 2009)

The assassination of Yasser Arafat had been on the drawing board since 1996 under “Operation Fields of Thorns”. According to an October 2000 document “prepared by the security services, at the request of then Prime Minister Ehud Barak, stated that ‘Arafat, the person, is a severe threat to the security of the state [of Israel] and the damage which will result from his disappearance is less than the damage caused by his existence’”. (Tanya Reinhart, Evil Unleashed, Israel’s move to destroy the Palestinian Authority is a calculated plan, long in the making, Global Research, December 2001. Details of the document were published in Ma’ariv, July 6, 2001.).

The book " THE AUGUST ASSASSIN " clearly detailed the killing of Arafat and Idi Amin by Israeli Intelligence through poisoning. This book was in print years ago by John Elliot a US State Department Assassin hit man subcontracted to the Mossad for specialist hits. It inspired Suha Arafat the wife to exhume the body and search for proof:


Suha Arafat, the widow of the deceased terrorist and PLO ChairmanYasser Arafat, after being given a copy of The August Assassin by Al Jezeera in June of 2012, said, "I was suspicious, everybody was suspicious, but we had no proof. That is no longer the case."

Mrs. Arafat then attempted to have her husband's body exhumed in an effort to determine if he had actually been poisoned as the book's author had claimed. Arafat's body was exhumed in November of 2012 but, according to the Times of Israel, the results from the Polonium-210 poisoning tests have yet to be released.


We now see that a good number of conspiracy theories are actually conspiracy fact. Let us keep an open mind on World Affairs.

ikwere militant: my frend shut up face front.if d tin pain u too much go join hamas,nd make sure ur blend dm sucide wiog anuofia

Just because they're people you don't like due to their resistant to Israel for stealing and illegally occupying their lands. Look, if it is because of your so-called 'promised land', anybody can be in custody of it and not necessarily by custody-through-stealing. Palestinians would even protect the place as a holy land than Israel are using it for recreational activities.
Mind you that this woman fighting tooth and Neil for her late husband is a CHRISTIAN, real one and not the imaginary one that i suspect you fall into.

Mahummud Abbas is the prime suspect that administered the poisonous plutonium.

The Palestinians killed Arafat because of internal political struggle of who gets what. Their loots were diverted to Swiss banks by their supreme commander.

Remember Arafat's wife is a multi-billion richer after the death of her extremely corrupt Egyptian husband (Arafat is a full blooded Egyptian Arab)

Professor Peter: Obasanjo who was the Nigerian president then should be arrested and prosecuted by V. I. O or LastmaObasanjo who was the Nigerian president then should be arrested and prosecuted by V. I. O or Lastma

I bet he should.

Ariel Sharon has been in a coma for several years. As good as dead.

Lady Excellency: Mahummud Abbas is the prime suspect that administered the poisonous plutonium.

The Palestinians killed Arafat because of internal political struggle of who gets what. Their loots were diverted to Swiss banks by their supreme commander.

Remember Arafat's wife is a multi-billion richer after the death of her extremely corrupt Egyptian husband (Arafat is a full blooded Egyptian Arab)

Only Mossad could have deployed radioactive poisoning at the time .. The whole world including Arafat knew he had been poisoned so I wonder what this report is all about.

Nigerians and assumptions. The report said he was poisoned, did it say who deployed the poison?? Your seen/declared enemies are always better than enemies within and unknown.

Let us now see what will happen to the peace process in the Middle east

The United States should investigate this to douse tension building up at this time

This investigation was always a matter of "prove what we already know".