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"Polonium poisoning"? Is that what were calling HIV now?

..."we're"...

The polonium was probably added to the samples after the fact in an attempt to obscure the fact that he died from AIDS. His proclivities as a rump ranger were well-known.

Betcha 'bama will be staying away from all things Israel.
He won't even be shakin' hands with Bibi anymore.
Scared, eh.

Yasser Arafat, another hugely overrated "freedom fighter". Right up there with the rest of the overrated crowd such Martin Luther King, who cheated to get his doctorate, Nobel-Prize Obama, who thinks he is God's gift to the world, and so on and so on...it's a long list of mediocre people who are constantly propped up by the left.

Polonium poisoning? In 2004?

And they detected the contamination this year? Sorry, this complete B.S.

Po210 has a 139 day half-life. That means that the polonium has gone through 23 half lives in nine years. Or 1/8,388,608 of the polonium-210 is left. A fatal dose (LD50) is less than 1 micro-gram. Po210 has an activity level of 166TBq/gram (screaming hot radioactively). Supposedly there is enough polonium left to be detected now in the grave side soil, remains and clothing? How much do they think was used? Grams? Pounds? Why wasn't all this radioactivity detected in 2004? Why weren't his doctors, nurses and family all dying off from the radioation and polonium too?

But they detected the decay products!!! The decay product of Po210 is Pb206. Pb206 is normal, non radioactive lead. The same stuff in bullets and car batteries.

Sorry, IMO this polonium (if it actually existed?) was all planted on the remains.

wiki - Radioactive polonium-210 contained in phosphate fertilizers is absorbed by the roots of plants (such as tobacco) and stored in its tissues. Tobacco plants fertilized by rock phosphates contain polonium-210, which emits alpha radiation estimated to cause about 11,700 lung cancer deaths annually worldwide

I call balonyum .

Arafat's Whiney Wife was the one who refused an autopsy back then. 10 years later she is upset?? There is proof of absolutely nothing other than stupidity.

However he went, the evil ba$tard is dead. For that we should be thankful. Unfortunately, there are millions of other tin-pot dictators willing to take his place. (And put their hands into the UN largesse cookie jar)

"Can we exclude polonium as cause of death? The response is clearly `no,' he said. "Was polonium the cause of the death for certain? The answer is no."
Seems like a lot of speculation. Of course cherry pick the answer to fit the theory.

John's defense of dead Arab terrorists in 3.........2.............1..........

Whatever the half life of polonium, of this we are certain;
the whole life of Arafat is surely over.

The time to do the autopsy is at the time of death; not some 10 years later where the results would be rendered somewhat meaningless and inconclusive.

Trying to allege a Alexander Litvinenko type event is a bit late in the day...

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

I would be interested in what Y.A. exactly was tested for. And maybe more importantly, what he wasn't tested for. I would like to view the unmassaged Russian and Swiss test results. That way some causes could be ruled out and narrow down the possibilities.

What bitter clinger and gordinkneehill said.

rd, that was interesting. Thank you.

It is good he is gone.

Dead is good enough. Don't care how.

Wasn't Yasser Arafat always toxic? Dead or alive: What's the difference?

Nah if'n the Mossad wanted Arafat dead, he woulda died a lot earlier......

I don't buy the polonium thing either..... AIDS is more probable.

Polonium, syphilis, Mad Cow Disease...

Do not care.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.