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"Eight years after his death, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat&amp;#039;s body was exhumed from its tomb today. According to WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, officials are investigating whether poisoning was the cause of death. The exhumation was prompted by Arafat&amp;#039;s widow, Suha, who originally refused to allow an autopsy of her husband&amp;#039;s body when he died. The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, recently authorized the exhumation after French judges discussed the possibility of murder when high levels of the radioactive element polonium were discovered on his clothing. Medical reports state that Arafat&amp;#039;s cause of death was a stroke, but doctors were dumbfounded by the quick deterioration of his health. When some of Arafat&amp;#039;s personal items were turned over to the University of Lausanne&amp;#039;s Institute of Radiation Physics in Switzerland, tests found high levels of polonium-210, the same poison that killed Russian government critic Alexander Litvinenko, on Arafat&amp;#039;s clothes, toothbrush and signature head scarf. But that poison breaks down quickly, so there&amp;#039;s no guarantee that testing will give new clues as to what killed Arafat nearly a decade ago. French, Swiss and Russian experts will examine the remains in their home countries and results may not come for months. Palestinian officials have blamed Israel for poisoning Arafat, but Israel has vehemently denied those accusations. Do you suspect foul play in Arafat&amp;#039;s death? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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