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Radiation experts confirm polonium on Arafat clothing
http://www.arabnews.com ^ | 14 October 2013 | AFP

Posted on 10/14/2013 3:13:39 PM PDT by Garvin

Swiss radiation experts have confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat which "support the possibility" the veteran Palestinian leader was poisoned.

In a report published by The Lancet at the weekend, the team provide scientific details to media statements made in 2012 that they had found polonium on Arafat's belongings.

Arafat died in France on November 11 2004 at the age of 75, but doctors were unable to specify the cause of death. No autopsy was carried out at the time, in line with his widow's request.

His remains were exhumed in November 2012 and samples taken, partly to investigate whether he had been poisoned -- a suspicion that grew after the assassination of Russian ex-spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

(Excerpt) Read more at arabnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aids; arafat; denial; hiv; israel; poisoning; polonium; russia; waronterror
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To: The Antiyuppie
The total world-wide annual refinement of polonium isn't all that much, around a pound, iirc.

Don't know of any modern industrial uses. At one time, textile mills used it in reducing static charge.

21 posted on 10/14/2013 3:37:51 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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22 posted on 10/14/2013 3:39:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Garvin
OK, He's Done
23 posted on 10/14/2013 3:40:37 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: JoeProBono

Good golly .... I believe I see a resemblance to Helen Thomas!


24 posted on 10/14/2013 3:45:46 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Garvin

Ban checkered tablecloths!


25 posted on 10/14/2013 3:46:00 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Yeah, he died from bad meat in the can.


26 posted on 10/14/2013 3:46:24 PM PDT by 30 Govt.
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To: Calvin Locke

It’s still used in laboratories, to reduce static.


27 posted on 10/14/2013 3:48:06 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Impeach We Much!)
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To: Calvin Locke

I don’t think it was HIV, but some goat to human disease.


28 posted on 10/14/2013 3:49:06 PM PDT by DeWalt (Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
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To: MissMagnolia

29 posted on 10/14/2013 3:50:14 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Garvin

Arafat died of terminal ugliness.


30 posted on 10/14/2013 3:50:24 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: JoeProBono

Yer Evil.


31 posted on 10/14/2013 3:51:14 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: 30 Govt.

I heard he was full of Bolonium!


32 posted on 10/14/2013 3:52:05 PM PDT by Blacksheep (There are no coincidences......)
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To: Garvin

Nothing will change the fact that he was gag and died due to complications of full blow AIDS. The French hospital in which spent the last days of his life had made public a report that validated his death as that of being AIDS-related.


33 posted on 10/14/2013 3:56:45 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Pan_Yan

;-lol


34 posted on 10/14/2013 3:59:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: lbryce

Correction:Nothing will change the fact that he was gay and died due to complications of full blow AIDS.


35 posted on 10/14/2013 3:59:47 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
not Israeli nuclear assassination

Has Mossad ever used polonium as a weapon?

However, I can think of another nuclear power which has for sure used it.

36 posted on 10/14/2013 3:59:49 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
However, I can think of another nuclear power which has for sure used it.

Did they use it on a 75 year old guy with AIDS?

37 posted on 10/14/2013 4:01:13 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Garvin

I thought he got botulism from eating bad meat from a can.


38 posted on 10/14/2013 4:01:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jazusamo

It was the will of Allah.


39 posted on 10/14/2013 4:03:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Calvin Locke

The question really comes down to was it Kosher Polonium
or Halal?


40 posted on 10/14/2013 4:03:49 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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