 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Yasser Arafat was first besieged by Israeli tanks in his Ramallah compound, then shuttled to Paris, where he spent his final days undergoing a barrage of medical tests in a French military hospital. Tests reveal that Arafat's final personal belongings -- his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh -- contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal effects, which were analyzed at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, were variously stained with Arafat's blood, sweat, saliva and urine. The tests carried out on those samples suggested that there was a high level of polonium inside his body when he died. |
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