20 years ago today Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian political leader, died.
20 years ago today Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian political leader, died.
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Poisoned, in fact. Guess by whom.
I don't doubt it, but was it ever demonstrated or acknowledged?
Inconclusive, but...
To their surprise, the researchers found polonium-2101. A piece of Arafat’s underwear stained with urine had a radioactivity of 181 millibecquerels, almost 100 times higher than normal background levels (see ‘Was Yasser Arafat killed by polonium?’). This prompted a French murder investigation, and his body was exhumed on 27 November 2012. Investigators took samples from his bones, burial shroud and the soil from around the grave.