Thursday, December 05, 2013

Swiss scientist maintains Arafat 'likely poisoned'

A French report ruling out poisoning in Yasser Arafat's 2004 death has a glaring inconsistency, the co-author of a Swiss probe said on Thursday, sticking by his team's conclusion that the Palestinian leader was likely killed.

"Our data lean more towards the thesis of poisoning than in the opposite direction," Professor Francois Bochud, head of the Lausanne Institute of Applied Radiophysics, told AFP.

Bochud is the co-author of a report published last month that said the high levels of polonium — a rare and highly radioactive element — found in Arafat's remains and personal effects indicated third party involvement in his death.

 An as-yet unpublished French report however rules out poisoning, a source close to the probe said this week, with an argument that the naturally occurring radioactive element radon, found in the ground, explained the high polonium levels. Full story...

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