Arafat set to be exhumed in November
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October 31, 2012, Wednesday
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CRIMINAL investigators from France will exhume Yasser Arafat's remains next month to try to find out how the Palestinian leader died.
A French official said yesterday the team will arrive sometime during November 24-26 in the West bank city of Ramallah.
Palestinian authorities said a separate Swiss investigative team would also arrive in Ramallah at the same time.
The push to re-examine circumstances surrounding Arafat's November 2004 death came after a Swiss lab recently discovered traces of polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, on clothes said to be his. The discovery revived suspicions of poisoning. The immediate cause of Arafat's death was a stroke, but the underlying source of an illness he suffered in his final weeks has never been clear.
Investigators from France and Switzerland are to conduct parallel probes into Arafat's death, acting separately on behalf of Arafat's widow Suha Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, who each had misgivings about the other's investigation.
While their probes are separate, the French and the Swiss are to visit the grave together and will only be allowed one chance to draw samples, according to Palestinian officials.
A French official said yesterday the team will arrive sometime during November 24-26 in the West bank city of Ramallah.
Palestinian authorities said a separate Swiss investigative team would also arrive in Ramallah at the same time.
The push to re-examine circumstances surrounding Arafat's November 2004 death came after a Swiss lab recently discovered traces of polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, on clothes said to be his. The discovery revived suspicions of poisoning. The immediate cause of Arafat's death was a stroke, but the underlying source of an illness he suffered in his final weeks has never been clear.
Investigators from France and Switzerland are to conduct parallel probes into Arafat's death, acting separately on behalf of Arafat's widow Suha Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, who each had misgivings about the other's investigation.
While their probes are separate, the French and the Swiss are to visit the grave together and will only be allowed one chance to draw samples, according to Palestinian officials.
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