Autopsy Results Confirm Arafat Died of Polonium Poisoning
Newstovote - An autopsy on the body of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, positively prove he died from poisoned with Polonium substances. The statement was made by Yaser 's wife, Suha, who received her husband's body after reports autopsystudied for one year.
Telegraph Page, Wednesday, November 6, 2013 reported Suha obtain the report from the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University Hospital Lucern, Switzerland. Complete autopsy results are then uploaded by the news station Al Jazeera on the same day.
" We have uncovered a real crime. A political assassination drama, " said Suha told Reuters news agency in Paris.
The results of this report, further Suha , has proved during this public suspicion. Suha received a report by a forensic team from Switzerland where he met with them on Tuesday in Geneva.
" This is scientific proof that he did not die in a reasonable manner. Now, we have proof that this man has been murdered, " said Suha.
Although it was revealed that her husband was poisoned to death, but do not want to accuse Suha country or a particular party. He accepts the fact that many people want to wish death the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
However , speculation circulated quickly. This proves that Arafat has enemies that come from the people inside. According to the analysis of a British forensic expert, David Barclay, it could be someone from the inside Arafat, secretly put a toxic substance Polonium - shaped powder into the food, beverage, eye drops or toothpaste.
However, the Palestinians quickly charged that the main actor behind the death of Arafat is Israel. That's because, over the last two and a half years of his life, Arafat has always been the target of various operations carried out by Israel's execution.
Especially with attack helicopters bombed Israeli Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah city with rockets. He survived and was taken to a safer place when the incident happened in December 2001.
Suspicions began when Arafat was poisoned news station Al Jazeera, based in Qatar in 2012 and found traces of the toxic substance polonium - 210 in personal items belonging to Suha Arafat delivered. The goods were delivered by representatives of the French military hospital, where Arafat died treated until recent times.
French investigative team then follow up request to investigate alleged Suha her husband's murder in August 2012 last month. A joint team from the forensic Switzerland, Russia and France then took samples from his body for examination.
Activity was carried out after the approval of the Palestinian Authority to be able to reopen the tomb of Arafat.
From the results of the initial examination, some people doubt the existence of substance polonium in Arafat 's body. Head of the forensic team from the Institute of Forensic Russia, Vladimir Uiba, had said there was no trace of poison polonium in Arafat 's body specimens.
However , the statement has been quoted by news agency Interfax overdo hastily rectified by Medical - Biological Agency of Russia. They denied having issued an official statement related to the autopsy the body of Arafat.
In addition, the experts had said Arafat illness inconsistent with the characteristics of people who are exposed to radioactive nuclear. They also mentioned, hair loss is not Arafat.
Suspicions more powerful when the death of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, revealed. Litvinenko died in a London hotel, proven died from poisoned with the same substance.
Litvinenko had left a message and he caused messengers murder accused President Vladimir Putin, because he defected.
But from the beginning, Barclay was convinced Arafat was poisoned with polonium. According to him, kind of polonium are inserted into the body of Arafat has been processed in a nuclear reactor .
" A substance polonium are put into foods or beverages they drink, enough to kill 50 people at once, " said Barclay.
Before he died, Arafat complained of pain in October 2004. When he experienced symptoms of acute inflammation of the stomach with diarrhea and vomiting.
First approximation, the Palestinian official called suffering from influenza. However, as the disease gets wors , then Arafat was flown to Paris by plane French Government.
Shortly thereafter he was in a coma after being treated at the Percy military hospital on the outskirts of Clamart. He was later declared dead on November 11.
At that time a team of French doctors declared Arafat died from a stroke. But they claimed not to be able to identify the initial cause him pain. At that time, there has been no demand for an autopsy on his body.
Now, after the fact revealed that Arafat was murdered, Suha, plans to bring this case to the realm of law. One of his lawyers will translate the autopsy report into French and took him to the three judges in the suburbs of Paris, Naterre for investigation.
World presented new facts wherefores Yasser Arafat 's death nine years ago. In the research of experts from Switzerland, Arafat's most likely dying due to exposure to toxic polonium.
This was disclosed in a document of 180 pages University Centre for research Legal Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland, which exclusively obtained by Al - Jazeera. According to autopsy tissue samples taken from the body in the grave Arafat in Ramallah, no excess polonium content in his body.
Found to contain radioactive polonium at least 18 times above normal, precisely in the ribs and pelvis. Polonium was also found in the cemetery were exposed organs are rotting Arafat.
The poison allegedly placed in the drink coffee, tea or water Arafat. The leader died in a hospital in France on 11 November 2004, at the age of 75 years. His doctor did not do any checking, related cause of death.
" We felt at that time, to perform an autopsy will only make the grieving Palestinians and Arafat difficult to erase memory. People is not ready , at least in our opinion, to make this a criminal case, " said one Palestinian leader Nabil Shaath government.
It was only in August 2012 , at the request of Arafat's widow, Suha, French investigators began to investigate his death. Suha was driven by a desire surprising discovery investigative reporter of Al - Jazeera, Clayton Swisher.
Swisher, a former agent of the protection of the U.S. State Department diplomat who is close to Arafat felt something strange with his friend's death. Early in 2012, he then asked for permission to Suha living in Malta to investigate , ranging from examining diaries, medical footprint and the last relics Arafat.
In February 2012, Swisher handed a large bag of relics on Arafat Laussane University Medical Examination Center to be checked. Hair sample testing conducted at Arafat in the bag, including DNA checks.
After testing the usual poison is not found, the investigation eventually transferred to the Institute of Radiation Physics ( IRA ), who knows no polonium content. Poison polonium yourself a new famous name after the death of former KGB agent who defected to Britain, Alexander Litvinenko, two years after Arafat 's death.
The research initially try turned out fruitful facts. IRA in March 2012 found urine spots on Arafat's underwear containing polonium - 210. Polonium contamination also exists in some blood stains on Arafat goods, hats hospitals, and the rest of the collar sweat in sports.
Departing from this invention, Suha reopen the case of her husband 's death and called for an investigation by a French court . Grave demolished in November 2012, a total of 60 tissue samples given to three teams of experts from Switzerland, France and Russia.
Head of the expert team from Russia last month, Vladimir Uiba, saying that they did not find the content of polonium , was quoted by Interfax. But lately, the Federal Medical - Biological Agency where she worked argue that Uiba never issued an official statement like that.
While the team of France has not reported the results of their research to the public or the legal team Suha.
Swiss researchers based their findings, up to 83 percent sure that Arafat died of polonium. This substance is exactly as found in the underwear, toothbrush and clothes Arafat.
" The content of polonium in Arafat ribs reach 900 millibecquerels. That means 18 times or 36 times higher than average, " said Dave Barclay, British forensic expert and former detective, when asked to review a report by a Swiss research team Al - Jazeera.
Barclay says, if only the study conducted a few years longer, the possibility can not be detected polonium content. The reason, he said, polonium potentially losing 50 percent of its radioactivity every four months.
The plan, Swiss investigators report will be translated from English to French and submitted to the court investigating the death of three men was born August 24, 1929. Suha said that the discovery shows that toxic content, Arafat 's death a mystery begins to unfold.
" We're middle unload real crimes, a political assassination. These reports prove that he did not die naturally, and we have scientific evidence to prove that this man was murdered, " said Suha.
Israeli Actions ?
The discovery of at least break the various issues surrounding the death of Arafat. One of them is the rumor Arafat died of AIDS or cigarettes. All of these issues disputed by the medical examination, after all, Arafat did not smoke.
Suha did not mention who the killer, but the accusation clearly leads to Israel, Palestinian nemesis. Two years before his death, the Zionist state is making Arafat could not get out of the presidential palace, was besieged in Ramallah.
" President Arafat died of homicide victim of organized terrorism in disguise countries, namely Israel, who really want to get rid of it. Publishing comparable Swiss expert research team showed that he was poisoned polonium, means that Israel has done, " said Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the executive committee Liberation Organization Palestine, told Reuters.
Israel itself laughing at the results. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel, which was initiated by a team of experts indicates a conflict between the widow Suha Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have first investigated.
" This finding is more like a soap opera than science, " he said.
He said the discovery of polonium in the body residue Arafat unclear and confusing. Palmor said the team of Switzerland does not check in the former radioactive Arafat in Ramallah office or hospital in France where he was treated for the last time.
But the accusations against Israel is not unreasonable . Because Arafat Israel has so long coveted . It presented itself by Ariel Sharon was prime minister when new in 2001. Writing in The New Yorker 12 years ago , journalist Jeffrey Goldberg , Sharon said that Arafat was admitted 13 times to try to kill him .
" All Israeli governments over the years, Labour, Likud, all of them , trying to - I tried to find a polite word for American readers - destroy our civilization. But we were never successful, " said Sharon, are reproduced by Goldberg.
In 2003, according to a report Chossudovski Michel, professor at the University of Ottawa Global Research, March 7, 2003, the Israeli Cabinet formally ordered the killing of Arafat which according to them " inhibiting peace ".
2005 Mehr news agency said, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan USA. That is why the U.S. launched a veto in the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning want the assassination attempt.
What is Polonium ?
Name of famous after the death of Litvinenko polonium. Barclay says, polonium is a very deadly poison. The only speck of dust toxins can kill dozens of people.
" Small doses of polonium -sized point dandruff can kill 50 people if they are dissolved in water and drink it, " said Barclay.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ), polonium is silvery soft metal powder is found in uranium ore. Isotope polonium - 210 were found in the body of Arafat has radioactive alpha particles are very high.
This substance is not harmful if it is in the open air. Yet another story if it enters the body. Mentioned polonium - 210, 250 billion times more toxic than cyanide.
Substances findings Physics Nobel laureate Marie Curie in the late 19th century this is the derivative of the nuclear enrichment process. This substance is created by bombarding bismuth - 209 isotope with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Only about 100 grams are produced each year, almost all of them in Russia.
In the early development of nuclear weapons, this substance is used as a trigger for an atomic bomb explosion. Later, polonium used to power satellites and space shuttles.
That is why, polonium is very rare, because usually owned only by the developer of a nuclear weapon state. Israel suspected one of them. Polonium hard to find someone without having access to the reactor facility. In addition, the handling of this substance is not arbitrary.
Symptoms similar to people affected by polonium exposure to toxins such as radiation, very painful.
" Levels of polonium in the body is enough to make it killed Arafat. Now we 've found ' pistol ' killer. Now we need to find out who is holding a ' gun ' at the time, " said Barclay.
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