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Yasser Arafat's remains exhumed
Tuesday November 27, 2012 12:44:31 PM,
Aastha Khurana,
IANS
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Ramallah: Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat's remains have been exhumed for poison tests,
a Palestinian source said Tuesday.
Members of the Palestinian Presidential Guard moved the coffin
from the tomb to a nearby mosque in the Palestinian presidency's
Ramallah headquarters, reported Xinhua.
The remains were put on a plastic stretcher at the mosque where
the samples will be taken, the source said.
Tawfiq Tirawi, head of the Palestinian committee investigating
Arafat's death, was present during the digging along with
investigators and experts from Switzerland, France and Russia, the
source added.
The Palestinian senior Mufti, the secretary-general of the
Palestinian presidency and the attorney general attended the
exhumation.
A military re-burial ceremony will be held soon. Tight security
measures were taken to ensure the secrecy of the process.
The investigation aims to find out if Arafat's 2004 death in a
French hospital resulted from poisoning.
The Palestinians suspect that Israel had poisoned Arafat when he
was besieged in his Ramallah headquarters before falling ill.
Earlier this year, Swiss experts tested Arafat's personal
belongings as part of a documentary aired by Al-Jazeera, the
Doha-based news network. The report cited the Institute of
Radiation Physics as saying that traces of radioactive
polonium-210 were found on Arafat's underwear and toothbrush.
Arafat's widow Suha had filed a civil lawsuit at a French hospital
asking for a murder investigation into her husband's death. The
Palestinian leadership also decided to bring in the Russians for a
more credible inquiry.
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