Polonium-210 grade weapon is only located in Israel, USA, and Russia |
The body of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat was exhumed and tissue samples were taken to be tested for signs of poisoning by the radioactive element polonium-210.
These suspicions were reinforced last summer when preliminary testing of the 75-year-old Arafat’s effects — his clothes, sheets, even his famed black-checked kaffiyeh showed trace evidence of the radioactive element.
The most probable source of polonium-210 is from weapons-grade nuclear operations best known to be located in Israel, the United States and Russia.
rumors have circulated since Arafat died in 2004 that this was not a natural death, that he was murdered by hostile agents from Israel.
Late Yasser Arafat with his wife Suha Arafat |
France opened a murder inquiry in late August after Arafat's family launched legal action following reports he may have died from radioactive polonium near Paris in 2004.
A source told the AFP news agency Mrs Arafat, a resident of Malta, had met with investigators in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the family's complaint was filed. No other details were disclosed.