

Yasser Arafat

A 9 month investigation has revealed that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was likely poisoned with a radioactive element in 2004, causing his death.

Levels of Polonium found on some of Arafat’s personal effects registered “more than 20 times the dose to kill an average human being,” Al Jazeera reports. The same element killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.

Al Jazeera initiated the investigation. The tests were carried out at The Institute de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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