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Nephew: Suspicions about Arafat's death
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-12-11 21:59

Yasser Arafat's nephew said Saturday the lack of a diagnosis of what led to his uncle's death last month raised suspicions the Palestinian leader died of "unnatural" causes.


Palestinian militants of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with the Fatah movement, hold their weapons next to a poster of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a rally in support of the Israeli-jail imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi, in the northern West Bank village of Rojep, near the city of Nablus, Friday Dec. 10, 2004. [Reuters]

The comments by Nasser al-Kidwa, made after he handed over the 558-page medical dossier to Palestinian officials in Ramallah, were certain to fuel speculation that Arafat was poisoned. Arafat died in a French hospital on Nov. 11.

Al-Kidwa repeated his statement from last month that the French doctors were unable to rule out the possibility that Arafat had been poisoned, although they said they had not found traces of "any poison known to them."

"Examinations of X-rays and all imaginable tests ... are still with the same results, the inability of reaching a clear diagnosis," Al-Kidwa said in English at a news conference in Ramallah on Saturday.

"That is precisely the reason why suspicions are there, because without a reason you cannot escape the other possibility ... that there is unnatural cause for the death," he added.



 
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