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http://www.news.com.au/world/yasser-ara ... 6523437257

It appears there is continuing controversy about his death. There are claims of radioactive substances found in recent samples, so they are going to dig him up again and do more extensive test.

God help us all if the claims prove to have substance

i hope they're proven to be a true. intifada three and evidence of israel killing the best thing to happen to palestine will do wonders for israel's further isolation as a pariah state.

I'd be surprised if they did, he was pretty irrelevant to the whole movement by the time he died. Back in the 70s or 80s that would have been the time for Israel to do something like this

As a child I always adored Yasser Arafat because he reminded me of Papa Smurf.

he was assumed to be sick, too, well before his death. Israel would have little to gain from killing him as he still had a bit of control over Hamas. They wouldn't be so sloppy to do it in such a detectable way either, IMO.

If anyone did murder him, it would be his own people since he did extort them heavily. There were many among the high ranks hoping he'd die.

Em - that was only true in the arab world. He actually had a stroke, IIRC, but the illness that came prior was unknown. Lot of people in the West believed he had AIDS and it was being kept silent since that would be a big deal among Arabs. It's all conspiracies, not sure we should give credence to any of it.

Haha, the Palestinians used radioactive material to kill Arafat?

I'm sorry, I just don't buy that.

seems rather unlikely