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Title: Al-Jazeera: Tests suggest Arafat died of polonium poisoning
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URL Source: http://content.usatoday.com/communi ... t-died-of-polonium-poisoning/1
Published: Jul 3, 2012
Author: Douglas Stanglin,
Post Date: 2012-07-03 20:49:52 by A K A Stone
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Recent tests conducted on Yasser Arafat's personal belongings at the time of his unexpected death in 2004 suggest his body contained abnormal levels of radioactive polonium, the same poisonous substance that killed Russian spy-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko, Al-Jazeera TV reports. Al-Jazeera says its nine-month investigation found that Arafat was in good health until he fell suddenly ill Oct. 12, 2004, at his compound in Ramallah on the West Bank. He was flown to a French miitary hospital in Paris, where he died several days later. READ: Al-Jazeera's full story No autopsy was performed on the longtime Palestinian leader, who died at the age of 74. Al-Jazeera says the tests on his clothes, including his toothbrush and kaffiyeh, were conducted by the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland. "I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids," Francois Bochud, the director of the institute, tells Al-Jazeera. Additional tests, conducted over a three-month period from March until June, concluded that most of that polonium found in samples of body fluids -- sweat and urine -- on Arafat's clothes, was "unsupported," meaning that it did not come from natural sources. Al-Jazeera says there is little scientific consensus on the symptoms of polonium poisoning, mostly because it is so rare. Litvinenko suffered severe diarrhea, weight loss and vomiting, as did Arafat, in the days and weeks before he fell ill. A British inquiry into the Litvinenko's death found that he was poisoned with polonium slipped into his tea at a sushi restaurant, Al-Jazeera notes.
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#1. To: A K A Stone, harrowup (#0)
Maybe he had finished screwing an unnamed goat herder in America... I won't mention any names but their initials are "admiral", "doctor", "lawyer" and "backyard barn goat herder."
It is a highly radioactive element used, among other things, to power spacecraft. Marie Curie discovered it in 1898, and her daughter Irene was among the first people it killed: She died of leukemia several years after an accidental polonium exposure in her laboratory. At least two people connected with Israel’s nuclear program also reportedly died after exposure to the element, according to the limited literature on the subject. But polonium’s most famous victim was Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy-turned-dissident who died in London in 2006 after a lingering illness. A British inquiry found that he was poisoned with polonium slipped into his tea at a sushi restaurant. There is little scientific consensus about the symptoms of polonium poisoning, mostly because there are so few recorded cases. Litvinenko suffered severe diarrhea, weight loss, and vomiting, all of which were symptoms Arafat exhibited in the days and weeks after he initially fell ill. Animal studies have found similar symptoms, which lingered for weeks - depending on the dosage – until the subject died. “The primary radiation target… is the gastrointestinal tract,” said an American study conducted in 1991, “activating the ‘vomiting centre’ in the brainstem.” Scientists in Lausanne found elevated levels of the element on Arafat’s belongings - in some cases, they were ten times higher than those on control subjects, random samples which were tested for comparison. The lab’s results were reported in millibecquerels (mBq), a scientific unit used to measure radioactivity. Polonium is present in the atmosphere, but the natural levels that accumulate on surfaces barely register, and the element disappears quickly. Polonium-210, the isotope found on Arafat's belongings, has a half-life of 138 days, meaning that half of the substance decays roughly every four-and-a-half months. “Even in case of a poisoning similar to the Litvinenko case, only traces of the order of a few [millibecquerels] were expected to be found in [the] year 2012,” the institute noted in its report to Al Jazeera. But Arafat’s personal effects, particularly those with bodily fluids on them, registered much higher levels of the element. His toothbrushes had polonium levels of 54mBq; the urine stain on his underwear, 180mBq. (Another man’s pair of underwear, used as a control, measured just 6.7mBq.) Further tests, conducted over a three-month period from March until June, concluded that most of that polonium – between 60 and 80 per cent, depending on the sample – was “unsupported,” meaning that it did not come from natural sources. “There was not liver cirrhosis, apparently no traces of cancer, no leukemia,” said Dr. Patrice Mangin, the head of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Lausanne University. “Concerning HIV, AIDS – there was no sign, and the symptomology was not suggesting these things.” Dr. Tawfik Shaaban, a Tunisian specialist in HIV and one of the doctors who examined Arafat in his Ramallah compound, confirmed that there were no signs of the disease. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/whatkilledarafat/2012/07/201273181058734888.html
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
And here all along it was supposed to have been AIDS...
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
heh, Al Jazeera 'nuff said.
'nuff said. Sure it's an Israeli propaganda outlet, but they occasionally slip in a bit of truth.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
It certainly sounds alot better to Al-Jazeera et. al. than the simple truth, which is that the monster Arafat died of aids, from engaging in unclean homosexual sex. Note the wording above? Now we find out that "they" have the equivalent of the monster Aratfat's "stained Blue Dress" ala der slickmeister's wacky whitehouse follies? W de F? Biological fluids? Lets test them for AIDS! BTW Al-Jazeeeeeeerza Arafat is DEAD! LOL! Did I mention Al Jazeeeereny that Arafat is STILL dead? I smell burning pork. LMAO!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
"A spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, where those items were analyzed, stressed that the "clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not", and that "the only way to confirm the findings would be to exhume Arafat's body to test it for polonium-210." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
Couldn't have happened to a nicer Nobel Peace Prize winner, except for maybe........
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
"I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids," Francois Bochud, the director of the institute, tells Al-Jazeera.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
‘It was a crime’
Doctors in Lausanne, and elsewhere, also ruled out a range of other possible causes for Arafat’s death, based on his original medical file, which Ms. Arafat also provided to Al Jazeera. Their examination ruled out many of the other causes of death that have been rumored over the last eight years. 
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#0)
READ: Al-Jazeera's full story
#5. To: SJN, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#4)
Al Jazeera
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: A K A Stone (#0)
"I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids,"
#7. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Litvinenko suffered severe diarrhea, weight loss and vomiting, as did Arafat, in the days and weeks before he fell ill.
#8. To: Mad Dog (#6)
that Arafat is STILL dead?
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