Arafat's widow calls for probe into death
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July 11, 2012, Wednesday
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THE widow of Yasser Arafat will file a legal complaint in France asking authorities to investigate her husband's death, about which she recently raised new suspicions, her lawyer said yesterday.
Palestinian authorities gave final approval this week for the former Palestinian leader's body to be exhumed and asked for an international investigation into his 2004 death in a French military hospital.
That came on the heels of a broadcast last week by Arab satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, which said it had conducted a nine-month investigation into the leader's death after his widow, Suha, handed over Arafat's medical file.
Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics detected elevated traces of polonium-210 - a rare and highly lethal substance - on the belongings, but said the findings were inconclusive and that Arafat's bones would have to be tested to get a clearer answer. That led to a request to have his remains exhumed; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave approval for that on Monday.
If Suha Arafat's complaint is accepted, it will give French authorities the ability to probe her husband's death.
Lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur said yesterday that Arafat's widow hopes an investigation will "establish the exact circumstances of her husband's death."
French doctors have said Arafat died of a massive stroke and had suffered from a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC.
Palestinian authorities gave final approval this week for the former Palestinian leader's body to be exhumed and asked for an international investigation into his 2004 death in a French military hospital.
That came on the heels of a broadcast last week by Arab satellite TV channel al-Jazeera, which said it had conducted a nine-month investigation into the leader's death after his widow, Suha, handed over Arafat's medical file.
Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics detected elevated traces of polonium-210 - a rare and highly lethal substance - on the belongings, but said the findings were inconclusive and that Arafat's bones would have to be tested to get a clearer answer. That led to a request to have his remains exhumed; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave approval for that on Monday.
If Suha Arafat's complaint is accepted, it will give French authorities the ability to probe her husband's death.
Lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur said yesterday that Arafat's widow hopes an investigation will "establish the exact circumstances of her husband's death."
French doctors have said Arafat died of a massive stroke and had suffered from a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC.
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