Arafat Poisoned

[pbel]

I guess the question is who poisoned Arafat? The simple answer is, who benefitted?

Israel.

Yasser Arafat Was Poisoned With Radioactive Polonium, Says Forensics Report

A Swiss forensics investigation claims that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium, the TV channel Al Jazeera reported today.






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In the 108-page report, the scientists say they found at least 18 times the normal levels of polonium in his rib, pelvis and in soil stained with his decaying organs.

The investigation, a year in the making, concludes that Arafat had ''unexpectedly high levels'' of polonium and that ''the results moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium.''

A Palestinian forensic investigator removed 20 specimens from Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah in November 2012. His body was reinterred the same day. The samples from his corpse and grave were taken in front of three international teams.

Leading forensic pathologist David Barclay told Al Jazeera that ''if I was a judge and jury, this is absolutely stone-cold certain. This is beyond any doubt in my opinion that it was polonium that caused the death of Yasser Arafat."

Arafat's medical records state that he died in 2004 from a blood disorder that lead to a stroke. But eight years after his death, an investigation by Al Jazeera in July 2012 called ''What Killed Arafat'' revealed a rare, highly radioactive element on some of his personal items, including his clothes and toothbrush. That prompted the new forensics testing. A Swiss lab in Lausanne tested these items, which contained Arafat's blood, sweat, saliva and urine.

It was his widow, Suha Arafat, who asked the Palestinian Authority to exhume his body for further tests. She told Al Jazeera today that the results reveal "a real crime, a political assassination."

"This has confirmed all our doubts," she added. "It is scientifically proved that he didn't die a natural death and we have scientific proof that this man was killed."

However, the report has caveats. The Swiss investigators admit there are several critical problems with their investigation, namely that their findings are based on limited samples and that eight years had passed between his death and testing so the ''chain of custody'' of some of the specimens was unclear.

There are also three separate parallel investigations being conducted by French, Russian and Palestinian experts. Last month, one Russian official said that no traces of polonium had been found. Vladimir Uiba, head of the Russian Federal Medico-Biological Agency, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying that Arafat "could not have been poisoned with polonium," noting that tests carried out by Russian experts "found no traces of this substance."

 

[Kondor3]

Well, somebody got the little peckerwood, that seems likely now, based upon the evidence.

One less lowlife using-up good oxygen.

The shades of the victims of his terror attacks must be smiling broadly.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Mohammad Dahlan paid by the US/Israel.

 

[Kondor3]

So, which Hezbollah sleeper-cell did it?

 

[Roudy]

What a waste of good Polonium.

The reality of it is that they found amounts which COULD be consistent with poisoning. The evidence was in no way definitive. In other words, he died of AIDS in France and this is just another attempt to white wash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium

Occurrence in humans and the biosphere

Polonium-210 is widespread in the biosphere, including in human tissues, because of its position in the uranium-238 decay chain. Natural uranium-238 in the Earth's crust decays through a series of solid radioactive intermediates including radium-226 to the radioactive gas radon-222, some of which, during its 3.8-day half-life, diffuses into the atmosphere. There it decays through several more steps to polonium-210, much of which, during its 138-day half-life, is washed back down to the Earth's surface, thus entering the biosphere, before finally decaying to stable lead-206.

As early as the 1920s Antoine Lacassagne, using polonium provided by his colleague Marie Curie, showed that the element has a very specific pattern of uptake in rabbit tissues, with high concentrations particularly in liver, kidney and testes. More recent evidence suggests that this behavior results from polonium substituting for sulfur in sulfur-containing amino-acids or related molecules[104] and that similar patterns of distribution occur in human tissues.[105] Polonium is indeed an element naturally present in all humans, contributing appreciably to natural background dose, with wide geographical and cultural variations, and particularly high levels in arctic residents, for example.

Tobacco
The presence of polonium in tobacco smoke has been known since the early 1960s.[107][108] Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched ways to remove the substance—to no avail—over a 40-year period but never published the results.[47]
Radioactive polonium-210 contained in phosphate fertilizers is absorbed by the roots of plants (such as tobacco) and stored in its tissues. Tobacco plants fertilized by rock phosphates contain polonium-210, which emits alpha radiation estimated to cause about 11,700 lung cancer deaths annually worldwide.

Food
Polonium is also found in the food chain, especially in seafood.

*However, the spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, where those items were analyzed, stressed that the "clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not"*

 

[Roudy]

Mohammad Dahlan paid by the US/Israel.

They should give him a Medal of Honor, if so.

 

[Bloodrock44]

What a waste of good Polonium.

The reality of it is that they found amounts which COULD be consistent with poisoning. The evidence was in no way definitive. In other words, he died of AIDS in France and this is just another attempt to white wash.

Polonium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Occurrence in humans and the biosphere

Polonium-210 is widespread in the biosphere, including in human tissues, because of its position in the uranium-238 decay chain. Natural uranium-238 in the Earth's crust decays through a series of solid radioactive intermediates including radium-226 to the radioactive gas radon-222, some of which, during its 3.8-day half-life, diffuses into the atmosphere. There it decays through several more steps to polonium-210, much of which, during its 138-day half-life, is washed back down to the Earth's surface, thus entering the biosphere, before finally decaying to stable lead-206.

As early as the 1920s Antoine Lacassagne, using polonium provided by his colleague Marie Curie, showed that the element has a very specific pattern of uptake in rabbit tissues, with high concentrations particularly in liver, kidney and testes. More recent evidence suggests that this behavior results from polonium substituting for sulfur in sulfur-containing amino-acids or related molecules[104] and that similar patterns of distribution occur in human tissues.[105] Polonium is indeed an element naturally present in all humans, contributing appreciably to natural background dose, with wide geographical and cultural variations, and particularly high levels in arctic residents, for example.

Tobacco
The presence of polonium in tobacco smoke has been known since the early 1960s.[107][108] Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched ways to remove the substance—to no avail—over a 40-year period but never published the results.[47]
Radioactive polonium-210 contained in phosphate fertilizers is absorbed by the roots of plants (such as tobacco) and stored in its tissues. Tobacco plants fertilized by rock phosphates contain polonium-210, which emits alpha radiation estimated to cause about 11,700 lung cancer deaths annually worldwide.

Food
Polonium is also found in the food chain, especially in seafood.

*However, the spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, where those items were analyzed, stressed that the "clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not"*

The AIDS story is more romantic, wouldn't you say?

 

[Roudy]

What a waste of good Polonium.

The reality of it is that they found amounts which COULD be consistent with poisoning. The evidence was in no way definitive. In other words, he died of AIDS in France and this is just another attempt to white wash.

Polonium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Occurrence in humans and the biosphere

Polonium-210 is widespread in the biosphere, including in human tissues, because of its position in the uranium-238 decay chain. Natural uranium-238 in the Earth's crust decays through a series of solid radioactive intermediates including radium-226 to the radioactive gas radon-222, some of which, during its 3.8-day half-life, diffuses into the atmosphere. There it decays through several more steps to polonium-210, much of which, during its 138-day half-life, is washed back down to the Earth's surface, thus entering the biosphere, before finally decaying to stable lead-206.

As early as the 1920s Antoine Lacassagne, using polonium provided by his colleague Marie Curie, showed that the element has a very specific pattern of uptake in rabbit tissues, with high concentrations particularly in liver, kidney and testes. More recent evidence suggests that this behavior results from polonium substituting for sulfur in sulfur-containing amino-acids or related molecules[104] and that similar patterns of distribution occur in human tissues.[105] Polonium is indeed an element naturally present in all humans, contributing appreciably to natural background dose, with wide geographical and cultural variations, and particularly high levels in arctic residents, for example.

Tobacco
The presence of polonium in tobacco smoke has been known since the early 1960s.[107][108] Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched ways to remove the substance—to no avail—over a 40-year period but never published the results.[47]
Radioactive polonium-210 contained in phosphate fertilizers is absorbed by the roots of plants (such as tobacco) and stored in its tissues. Tobacco plants fertilized by rock phosphates contain polonium-210, which emits alpha radiation estimated to cause about 11,700 lung cancer deaths annually worldwide.

Food
Polonium is also found in the food chain, especially in seafood.

*However, the spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, where those items were analyzed, stressed that the "clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not"*

The AIDS story is more romantic, wouldn't you say?

Yes. A terrorist mass murderer, founder of the Palestinian (bowel) movement, who ripped off his "suffering" people to the tune of billions, while he encouraged little kids to g blow themselves up for his fake "cause", just so he could get more money wired into his secret personal accounts, who happened to also be gay and a child molester. The makings of a Hollywood plot:

Death of Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are numerous theories about the cause of Arafat's death. Initially Arafat records were withheld by senior Palestinian officials. In 2004, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath has said after talks with Arafat's French doctors that they had “ruled out completely poison.”

An official press release from the Institut de radiophysique, where those items were analyzed, stated that:[50]
"an unexplained quantity of Polonium-210 has been detected on the personal effects of Mr. Arafat. However, this is not sufficient to determine the causes of death. In particular, it will be recalled that, contrary to what happened in the case of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, Mr. Arafat did not lose his hair, and some of the findings in the forensic report are inconsistent with an acute radiation syndrome."
A spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique stressed that the "clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210.

François Bochud, who heads the Institute of Radiation Physics in Lausanne, Switzerland, stated that "our results are clearly not a proof of any poisoning,."

In response to Al Jazeera's report, Dr. Ely Karmon, at Herzliya’s Institute for Counterterrorism, a specialist in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism, said that "the half-life of the substance would make it impossible for polonium to have been discovered at such high levels if it had been used to kill Arafat eight years ago. If it had been used for poisoning, minimal levels should be seen now. Yet much higher levels were found. Someone planted the polonium much later.” He went on to question why Arafat’s widow, Suha Arafat, who provided the researchers with Arafat’s belongings was not also poisoned while she was by his side at the hospital touching him and his clothing."

After testing of Arafat's personal belongings and samples of his body fluids, the Russian Medical-Biological Agency concluded that Polonium was not the cause of his death.

In September 2005, based on obtained Arafat records, an Israeli AIDS expert claimed that Arafat bore all the symptoms of AIDS, while The New York Times claimed it was highly unlikely that Arafat died from AIDS.[22] and John Loftus reported on ABC radio that Arafat had died of AIDS. According to Loftus, the CIA had knowledge of his condition, and convinced Israel not to assassinate him and wait for his inevitable death of the disease, since the subsequent widespread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him.