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Abbas OKs testing of Arafat's remains
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Published: 09.07.12, 00:55
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1. Why bother ? all islamist already accusing Israel.
Iranian Hunter   (07.09.12)
2. What a farce!
Jake Stone ,   USA   (07.09.12)
This is just another ploy to further incite Muslim hatred; and, what's sad: most of the world will fall for it. God bless, Israel!
3. Very odd. Arafat had VIP care in France,they would have done
PETER SM ,   MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA   (07.09.12)
extensive blood tests,as well as body fluids and quite likely tissue samples. Radiation poisoning would have come up as a possibility with all that,it did not. Poisoning was reportedly excluded. Suha has the death certificate,her life insurance up till now and has not released it. The clothes could have been contaminated post fact and so can the corpse. This story does not add up but innuendo and rebadging Arafat will play to receptive audience amongst Arabs and their syncophants. A deal with Suha has been reached thats caused her to reverse herself
4. I have one comment on Arfat's death
BEN JABO (MACHAL) ,   ISRAEL   (07.09.12)
GOOD !!!
5. Abbas Ok's Testing Arafat's Remains
ltrail ,   United States   (07.09.12)
Wouldn't it be interesting if the Polonium 210 was the same that poisoned that Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko, who was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security ? Only someone high in the Russian government could have provided the poison to the KGB. The polonium 210 will likely have a unique identification.
6. Abbas...take his remains and SHOVE them !
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (07.09.12)
7. Planted drugs ; Abbas must be desperate
Norbus ,   Jerusalem   (07.09.12)
At the end of the day, Pals will lose all for doing the we want all or nothing. I see they will get nothing. Saudi and other Arab bretheren should absorb them in dignity
8. Cool!
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (07.09.12)
After they've finished testing the remains for Polonium 210, I hope they remember to test for HIV. Check the rectal sphincter, too, just for the hell of it.
9. As He Probed Others...
Orly ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.09.12)
... now he too shall be probed.
10. Didn't he die of AIDS?
SNS   (07.09.12)
11. so why dosnt Israel send abbas a copy of
Stuart   (07.09.12)
the death certificate, test results and video of arafat playing with his bodyguards ? maybe Wikileaks will save the day ;)
12. Yep hes dead ...
Swiss expert ,   Switzerland   (07.09.12)
13. Why now?
Ibrahim el Awal ,   Dearborn, USA   (07.09.12)
Why now? Arafat died 10 years ago. The clothing and possessions of Yasser Arafat were in the hands of his wife Shuah who has YA medical records by a French independent medical team. 10 years is a long time. These possessions were examined before but now they find traces of polonium slightly higher than naturally occurring, but not toxic levels. There is a complex struggle: a. Shuah wants more money. b. Arafat died as a martyr not as a gay AIDS stricken Islam's most condemned life style. c. A contamination was created to revive the Palestinian myth that has been on decline in Arab world. Is it not preferable to talk about a dead hero than about the situation in Syria , Egypt or Tunisia. d. Another effort to defame Israel. The idea that Israel has a reactor makes Israel suspect? Alexander Litvinenko was not poisoned by a UK nuclear material, but by an imported radioactive poison. 2. Arafat had many rivalries as well as criminal connections with investments in drug trafficking. This is another attempt to recover the 9 billion dollars through blackmail and murder. 3. Swiss Institut de Radiophysqiue, where those items were analyzed, stated that "an unexplained quantity of Polonium-210 has been detected on the personal effects of Mr. Arafat. However, this is not sufficient to determine the causes of death. In particular, it will be recalled that, contrary to what happened in the case of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko Mr. Arafat did not lose his hair, and some of the findings in the forensic report are inconsistent with an acute radiation syndrome." While this Swiss report does not explain Arafat death, the concept that Sharon killed Arafat with polonium caught the radical left media to assume that evil Israel did it. Conversely, Arafat "poisoning" was always an option of anti Israel and anti Arafat organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. While there is no evidence for acute radioactive syndrome, a well defined symptoms and signs complex, the radical anti Semitic, anti Israel, radical Left already condemned Israel. As usual facts are irrelevant. The CIA, Israel, Palestinian leadership knew well what was well described in Red Horizon by Ion Mihai Pacepa a Romanian inteligence chief that Arafat was a rabid homosexual with great appetite for young men. Yes, the Sunni Muslim Palestinian leader died of AIDS and covertly Israel supplied him the HIV medications while in the Mukataa siege in Ramallah in 2002.
14. What idiotic nonsense
Elizabeth   (07.09.12)
I suppose the arab leaders in Gaza are calling for this nonsense. Arafat is non-existent.... good riddance to the murderer. I remember breathing a sigh of relief when I heard he was a gonner. Even if he was poisoned, the world is rid of yet another "queer".
15. Sarah B, @ 38
Elizabeth   (07.09.12)
..... check the rectal sphincter is your advice. Good advice, but I think the professioinals would know to do that. Let's face it, when all is said and done, the world knows that Arafat was a "bum-boy" ..... let's leave it at that. Somebody was loaded and decided to unload themselves, and on whom better than Arafat. Ask for it and you get it!
16. #8 Testing him a third time??
Ben Alofs ,   Bangor, UK   (07.09.12)
If you would have read the Al Jazeera report or listened to the documentary the news channel had produced you could have known that Yasir Arafat's blood, while he was seriously ill in hospital in France, was tested TWICE for HIV. Both times the test came back negative, which excludes AIDS. This was confirmed by a British forensic scientist who ploughed through the complete medical file, given to Al Jazeera by Arafat's widow Suha. Arafat was tested for many other viral and bacterial infections and for poisons, but no explanation for his death could be found. The only thing he was not tested for was polonium-210. This was because nobody thought of polonium poisoning in 2004, which was two years before Alexander Litvinenko became the first person, of whom it was proven that he was killed with polonium-210. Even the symptomatology of polonium poisoning has not been fully clarified, because it is such a rare event. But in trying to tell you this I am probably wasting my time and energy. Zionist idiots like you have no interest in the truth whatsoever.
17. @Ben Alofs where is medical report
tallo ,   A   (07.09.12)
So where is the arafat medical history, why it isn't released if there is nothing embarrassing about old crook habits? Only anti Zionist idiots like you would believe to al-jaz lie-mongers.
18. #16 BEN ALOFS - You did quite a bit
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (07.09.12)
of sounding off about the alleged reports, where can the public view them? British Forensic scientist, by any chance did he happen to have a name and not be of the Moo slime persuasion, which could have influenced his findings? Al Jazeera incited this new investigaion, to increase readership, any fool would realize that, how come you don't ?
19. Mr. Abbas! Save yourself from this embarrassment
Iranian Jew ,   LA   (07.09.12)
You will loose this Media war that you have created. You better choose a new resident in Tehran and stay there for good while you are there. You are not the elected president anyway and anymore. Your term was finished very long time ago. Step down with dignity and give the keys to your king Abdullah. Your people have suffered enough. They need to get on with their lives. Destruction of Israel will not happen and it is not your answer.
20. All I can say to Abbas is this...
William ,   Israel   (07.09.12)
Arafat's decayed body better be littered with Po-210 or your ass (and the PA) is history. And guess what....Arafat's body is clean, and you know it. You just screwed yourself, just like when you traveled to Ankara to retrieve Ottoman Land records to prove "Palestinian" ownership and found they did just the opposite.
21. #16 - you have a vested interest in clearing Arafat's name
William ,   Israel   (07.09.12)
why? Is it because you're so anti-Israel, or do you have a personal interest in keeping Arafat as a famed (by not accurate) leader and an honored martyr? By the way, Suha didn't give the medical report to Al-Jazeera, just Arafat's personal items. You might want to check your own sources as all the news reports so far appear to contradict you.
22. #13 - nicely written
William ,   Israel   (07.09.12)
23. I have a great idea about Abbas
BEN JABO (MACHAL) ,   ISRAEL   (07.09.12)
Place him in the same place of physical well being that Arafat is, they can be tested side by side
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