According
to a recent report on the death of Yasser Arafat, supplied exclusively to
Aljazeera, elevated levels of the radio-isotope polonium-210 were found in the
exhumed remains of the former PLO leader.
These were such as to ‘moderately support’ polonium as the cause of his
2004 death. So was polonium used to kill
him and if it was, who did it?
There
is no doubt that polonium-210 is a lethal poison. It was used to kill former Russian spy,
Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. This was
established by a post-mortem conducted at the time, although the investigation
into the cause of his death was not without some difficulty (This appears to
have been the first known example of
the use of this agent).
