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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.
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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.
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:39:37 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: Garvin
OK, He's Done
To: JoeProBono
Good golly .... I believe I see a resemblance to Helen Thomas!
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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))
To: Garvin
Ban checkered tablecloths!
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Yeah, he died from bad meat in the can.
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:46:24 PM PDT
by
30 Govt.
To: Calvin Locke
It’s still used in laboratories, to reduce static.
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:48:06 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Impeach We Much!)
To: Calvin Locke
I don’t think it was HIV, but some goat to human disease.
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:49:06 PM PDT
by
DeWalt
(Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
To: MissMagnolia
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10/14/2013 3:50:14 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: Garvin
Arafat died of terminal ugliness.
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:50:24 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:51:14 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: 30 Govt.
I heard he was full of Bolonium!
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:52:05 PM PDT
by
Blacksheep
(There are no coincidences......)
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.
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:56:45 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:59:06 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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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.
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posted on
10/14/2013 3:59:47 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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.
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10/14/2013 3:59:49 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
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?
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posted on
10/14/2013 4:01:13 PM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: Garvin
I thought he got botulism from eating bad meat from a can.
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posted on
10/14/2013 4:01:14 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: jazusamo
It was the will of Allah.
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posted on
10/14/2013 4:03:42 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Calvin Locke
The question really comes down to was it Kosher Polonium
or Halal?
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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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