The late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with the radioactive form of Polonuim according to a Swiss forensic report. Arafat's official medical record says that he died in 2004 from a stroke that had been the result of a blood disorder. His body was exhumed for further investigation of whether or not that he was murdered. The new report says that there was an unexpected high activity of polonuim which "moderately" provided evidence to the poison theory. Many Palestinians believed that Israel was the culprit of these poisons, but has consistently denied any such thing. Others believe that it might have been cancer or Aids. An Israeli spokesman said that this report was "more soap opera than science". The scientists of the investigation have stressed that they were unable to reach a more definitive conclusion based on the lapsed time since his death; providing limited samples, and a confused "chain of custody" on some of the specimens.
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