Posted on 07/05/2012 11:41:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian president cleared the way Wednesday for a possible autopsy on Yasser Arafat's remains, following a request from his widow after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive isotope on the longtime Palestinian leader's belongings.
The developments have reignited a storm of speculation over what killed Arafat, who died on Nov. 11, 2004 at the age of 75 at a military hospital outside Paris after decades of fighting with Israel.
Arafat's widow, Suha, who rejected an autopsy at the time of his death, said she wanted one done now in the wake of the lab's findings, first reported by the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. In an interview with the station, she did not explain why she waited nearly eight years to have the belongings, including a toothbrush and a fur hat, tested.
French doctors said at the time that Arafat died of a massive brain hemorrhage - weeks after he fell violently ill at his West Bank compound.
Arafat had suffered intestinal inflammation, jaundice and a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC, according to French medical records. But the records were inconclusive about what brought about DIC, which has numerous causes including infections, colitis and liver disease. Outside experts who reviewed the records on behalf of The Associated Press were also unable to pinpoint the underlying cause.
The uncertainty prompted many in the Arab world to allege he was killed by Israel, which viewed him as an obstacle to a peace treaty. Israeli officials have vociferously denied any foul play.
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Let me get out my slide rule...if Yasser got doses one month before he died, there would be .0000007 of the original dose of polonium left.
Or, if the count rate were 200 back then on an alpha meter, the count rate today would be one count per 7000 seconds or one polonium count per 5 days. background counts will be much higher.
Po210 half life is 138.376 days, if you want to go get your own slide rule.
massive brain hemorrhage
he wouldn’t eat the mushrooms
If the Israelis killed him, I wish they would finish the job and take out all the other Nutjobs in the middle east.
They could START with Accccccccccch-Mad-In-a-Jab.
Perhaps he did eat the ‘shrooms............
Whatever findings the autospy reveals, I would only believe it if it was conducted by pathologists Drs.Cohen, Schwartz, and Rubin..(g)
he was teh ghey
It would be tough to figure out whether they started with Po210 from the lead isotope ratios, at least using third-world equipment. They should ask Israel, Russia, or the United States to do the analysis for them; probably Russia since they have the most experience using Po to solve problems like Arafat.
I love the idea of exhuming Arafat. You know how you get used to the heat, go into an air conditioned building for a moment, and the heat jolts you again as soon as you go back outside? I can imagine the mass murderer’s host gleefully allowing him to enjoy the cooler temperatures up here, just for a moment, so the return to his eternal destiny will be a fresh jolt.
He just looks like he smells....
In the article, they mention finding one spot that was 100 mBq, so that would have been 142,000 Bq when the deposit was made.
With that much polonium around and on surfaces, the health care providers would be poisoned, too, most likely.
The article also says that lethal amounts of po210 are hard to come by, which is not true. It’s common in industry, used as ion generators for air nozzles, for one use.
Yes, with AIDS!
Given that I don’t think much embalming goes on in the Middle East, after all this time is there enough of anything to test for.
Why all the concern over how a terrorist who lived 30 years too long, finally died?
He was “injected” with AIDS, in a manner commonly known by homosexual men.
I hope that he wasn’t poisoned, that he instead died from AIDS. Of course, no such information will ever be admitted by his whore-widow or his fellow mass murderers in the Paleoswinian organizations, but old Yassir was a flamer, a puffter, a dick-smoker, etc. I’d like to see how the Moslems deal with that.
“Was Yasser poisoned?”
Only if enlarged lymph nodes, open skin lesions, compromised immune system, and other symptoms endemic to a certain viral infection are poison, which he did to himself.
All the sane people know this, which leaves the Palis out.
And the UN, and the EU.
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