Abbas to ask for tests on Arafat’s body

Saeb Erakat told AFP on Sunday that “Abbas ordered one of his medical advisors to communicate immediately with the experts at the Swiss institute who tested Arafat’s clothes and request they come immediately to Ramallah to take samples from Arafat’s body.”

Erakat added that Abbas asked for further tests, hoping that they “will reveal the real cause for Arafat’s death.”

On July 3, the Al-Jazeera news channel reported that the findings of nine-month laboratory research conducted at the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, suggested the former Palestinian leader may have been poisoned by polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element.

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat died on November 11, 2004, following several weeks of medical treatment.

At the time, French officials refused to reveal the exact cause of his death on grounds of privacy laws, fueling rumors that the Mossad had poisoned him with thallium, another radioactive element.

Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was also poisoned with polonium. At a London hotel in 2006, he was given a cup of tea laced with the substance.

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