Tests suggest Arafat died of poisoning

LONDON: Samples taken from Yasser Arafat's body contained at least 18 times the normal levels of polonium, suggesting the Palestinian icon was poisoned with the radioactive material, Swiss scientists have said.
The scientists said they were confident up to an 83% level that Arafat was poisoned with polonium. The Swiss scientists, along with French and Russian teams, obtained the samples last November after Arafat's body was exhumed from a mausoleum in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
They found "unnaturally high levels" of polonium in Arafat's ribs and pelvis, and in soil stained with his decaying organs, Al Jazeera reported quoting the findings of the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne.
A 108-page report by the Centre, obtained by the channel, said the findings "moderately supports" polonium as the cause of Arafat's death.
Suha Arafat, the leader's widow, received a copy of the report in Paris on Tuesday. "When they came with the results, I'm mourning Yasser again. It's like you just told me he died," she said. "We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she said. "This has confirmed all our doubts," she added.
The Swiss report only examined the question of what killed Arafat. It did not address or point towards who killed him or how.