...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
and cited in an Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
report Tuesday.
So he died of AIDS and polonium. But mostly of AIDS...
The analysis focused on biological samples taken from the late Paleostinian leader's belongings given to his wife Suha by the military hospital in Gay Paree where he died, according to Francois Bochud, head of the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne.
Arafat, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, died on Nov. 11, 2004, following several weeks of treatment.
"The conclusion was that we did find some significant polonium that was present in these samples," Bochud told Al-Jazeera.
To confirm the theory that he was poisoned by polonium it would be necessary to exhume and analyse Arafat's remains, Bochud said.