Antinuclear

Radioactive polonium found in Arafat’s clothes Radio Australia,  4 July 2012,   New radiation tests on the clothes and belongings of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have led to speculation he died from poisoning by polonium. Researchers at the Institute of Radiation Physics at
Lausanne in Switzerland conducted tests on the clothing Mr Arafat was
wearing when he died in 2004, as well as personal belongings,
including a toothbrush.

Francois Bochud, the head of the Swiss institute, said the belongings
were given to Mr Arafat’s widow Suha by the military hospital in Paris
where he died. All had been stained by his sweat, saliva, urine or
blood.

Dr Bochud says the team measured an unexplained, elevated level of
unsupported polonium-210.

“The conclusion was that we did find some significant polonium that
was present in these samples,” he told Al Jazeera. Dr Bochud says to
confirm that polonium was indeed what killed Mr Arafat, Suha would
have to agree to his body or some of his remains being exhumed for
analysis.

Mr Arafat’s death at the age of 75 in a French hospital was surrounded
by mystery and allegations he had been poisoned.

He had reportedly been in good health until shortly before he fell ill.

French authorities refused to reveal the precise illness or cause of
death, which only fuelled the rumours……. Polonium was used to kill
Russian former spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who
died in 2006 after drinking tea laced with the radioactive substance
at a London hotel.

“If we take the scenario of Mr Litvinenko, one gigabecquerel at the
beginning would come to about 10 millibecquerel,” Dr Bochud told Al
Jazeera.

“What was astonishing in our case was that we found values in the
samples of Mr Arafat that were in the same order of magnitude.”

Al Jazeera’s documentary claims unsupported polonium is the kind made
in a nuclear reactor and even the tiniest amount, not even visible to
the naked eye, is enough to kill……
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2012-07-04/radioactive-polonium-found-in-arafats-clothes/972824

July 5, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized