Swiss scientists who obtained samples from Yasser Arafat’s body found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains, al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday, November 6. The high amounts of polonium “moderately” supported the theory that Arafat was poisoned, the scientists said. He died in 2004 at age 75, four weeks after he first fell ill after eating dinner on October 12 that year. He was transferred from the West Bank to a French military hospital after his health deteriorated. French doctors said he died of a massive stroke. No autopsy was carried out. The Palestinian leader’s remains were exhumed in November 2012, following claims he was murdered.
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