Yasser Arafat's body to be exhumed for cause of death tests استخراج جثة ياسر عرفات لفحص أسباب الوفاة
David Batty and agencies guardian.co.uk , Saturday 24 November 2012 Yasser Arafat's body to be exhumed for cause of death tests Palestinian officials want former leader's remains to be examined after traces of polonium-210 were discovered on his clothing Many Arabs belive Yasser Arafat's mysterious death in 2004 was an assassination by Israel. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images The remains of the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are to be exhumed to examine whether he was poisoned. Arafat died in November 2004 in a military hospital in Paris, a month after suddenly falling ill. His medical records put the cause of death as a stroke resulting from a blood disorder. But Palestinian officials have long claimed he was poisoned by Israel and French authorities began a murder inquiry in August following the detection of traces of the lethal radioactive substance polonium-210 on Arafat's clothing. Those tests w...