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Expert: Arafat poisoning reports 'completely fabricated'
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 07.11.13, 14:11
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1. Every day there is an anti-Jew/Israel media story.Enough!
(11.07.13)
2. 'completely fabricated'
mat ,   uk   (11.07.13)
for ordinary people who see how Arafat looked thin before he died and compare it to someone who died from polonium (Litvinenko's death in uk) or as other people are saying from other illness the vote will not be polonium and Arafat is laughing from his grave Litvinenko's death in uk was poisoned with polonium he did not look thin like Arafat there are other reasons that he could have died of the way he looked
3. whats suha complaining about
zionist forever   (11.07.13)
The man probably only married her for image and to have a kid. She spent her whole married life living like a queen on foreign money whilst he was living in Ramallah. If it was anything but a marriage of convenience she probably would have lived with her husband stood by his side in times of need but she never had anything to say on anything and never visited. She is hated by the palestinian public now she doesn't even have to pretend. She can take all the stolen money and live the good life and forget all about that garbage which the world is a better place without.
4. Polonium-210
CJK   (11.07.13)
the half life of Polonium-210 is about two months. The terror chief died in 2004. There is no way that this radiation poison could have lasted in his body or on his belongings for eight years.
5. Thought Arafat died from AIDS
Barry ,   Tokyo   (11.07.13)
Curious to see how his bodyguard´s health is these days...
6. Who dunnit ?
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (11.07.13)
If we accept the dubious assumption that Arafat was poisoned we have two questions: Why wait all these years before investigating, and who poisoned him? If the PLO did not allow an autopsy, that may suggest they had something to conceal. Araft had many enemies. There was a lot not to like about him. Can the French and Swiss banks investigate the allegations that Arafat hid between five and six million dollars of PLO money in French and Swiss bank acounts.
7. Arafat drop dead from AIDS according to doctors
Mark Bernadiner ,   Pearland, USA   (11.07.13)
“Yasser Arafat who married to hide his homosexuality and pederasty, had an entourage of children to fill his appetites and maintained close relationships with some of his bodyguards.” “When in November 2004, Yasser Arafat died in a Paris hospital from an unknown illness, all the information about which doctors carefully concealed, one of the most prominent Palestinian leaders, the head of the organization "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command" Ahmed Jibril, in an interview with Lebanese television station Al-Manar belonging to Hezbollah, said that according to the medical report passed to the leadership of the Palestinian Authority by the French doctors Yasser Arafat died of AIDS.”
8. reply to #4
Chaim ,   Sweden   (11.07.13)
Actually, half-life of Po-210 is 138,4 days, roughly 4,5 months. After 8 years, there would be approx. 1 part per 2 million left of the original substance, or 0,00005 %. Is that detectable? Depends on how much there was to start with. I have no idea how much would be required to be detectable today, but I find it highly unlikely that there could have been that much in Arafats body prior to his death. He would have been a walking nuclear reactor, severely irradiating everybody in his presence.And he would have had radiation burns all over his body, not to mention that he would have died much much sooner. Nice try, who ever is responsible for this scam.
9. Why would Israelis poison anyone
steve from raleigh   (11.07.13)
Seems like a high risk low payoff approach. Moreover the only people who've ever done that are the Russians no fan of Israel themselves. For a small country of limited resources to concoct a poison out of one of the most expensive and hard to make substances in the world is silly.
10. polonium 210 1/2,000,000 today...like the background ??
moshe ,   Tivon, Israel   (11.07.13)
#4 CJK one must be careful when dealing with FACTS, one must UNDERSTAND the fact whatever it is. YES_SIR! In ara-fat's case pal cry-babies babies, Siwss "objective" scientists, Anti-Israelis. lefty-@$$ kissers... ALL will SMILE. WHY?? because given enough sensitive equipment can measure the half-life of the half-life of the half life ...of the half life of polonium 210 (138days) is detectable 8 years later ! That's their Pr00f In 8yrs polonium 210 will have a degree of radio-activity 1/2,000,000 th of its original strength, which is detectable, by those "objective" Swiss scientists. moshe
11. AID's brings unbearable ridicule to estate
bernard ross   (11.07.13)
no future money in selling T shirts commemorating arafat the AID's victim LOL. Swiss are capable of anything for money
12. To H--- with Yasser Arafat
Abdel Karim Salim ,   Jerusalem   (11.07.13)
He died as martyr for AIDS after unrightfully getting the Nobel Prize at the expense of the Palestinian refugees . He never meant anything positive to me in his life and his death too . And if he were really important he would have been finished off by some people long ago . He does not fit for a personality cult . Let them stop annoying us with outdated news about him . We have important things to care about , and definitely Arafat's death is not one of them...
13. Some back of the envelope calculations and speculations
Sigmund Derman ,   Boston, USA   (11.07.13)
I like trying to figure things out myself. Po-210 has a half life of 138 days. 9 years would be about 12.8 half lives of po-210. 1/2 to the to the 12.8 power is about 1.4 time 10 to the -4 or 1.4 ten thousandths. 10/1.4 is about 7. So the radioactive strength would be divided by about 7000. I saw 8000 in a news report. A lethal radiation dose is supposed to be 4.5 Sv which according to Wikipedia would be 240 uCi. If he had supposedly 50 the lethal dose in him, he would have started with 1200uCi. Dividing that by 7000 would give 0.13uCi. These are all top of the head calculations but the news report giving 8000 suggests I am thinking in basically the correct way. Could you detect that much. I'm no expert but I have worked with radiation I am sure that if it were all in a test tube it would be relatively easy to do so. Spread through a whole human body that had been embalmed and thus the blood drained (unless they did not drain the blood)? Probably they could. But could they profile the spectrum of emission well enough to prove that was polonium? Or maybe it just is if he is above background for a dead body they assume it was polonium because what else would it be. Sounds possible but shaky.
14. #8, the Swiss report stated there was ZERO traces of Po-210
Jake ,   USA   (11.07.13)
... at the time of his hospitalization.
15. while the pig sharon is decomposing alive in coma
Derek   (11.07.13)
there IS God.
16. The whore of babylon speak s...
Anna M Sedda ,   Rome   (11.07.13)
This woman like s attention; we should start asking for money back ,the money she is using ...this woman has stolen thousand and milions of EU taxpayers money
17. Arafat death
Isaac Abella ,   CHICAGO, USA   (11.07.13)
Not possible that PO210 would have survived this long. Swiss story like cheese, fill of holes Half life is 138 days, so only 1 atom in 2 Million, would be left after 10 years
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