[An Nahar] Yasser Arafat's widow is to file a lawsuit in La Belle France following allegations the Paleostinian leader died at a Gay Paree hospital in 2004 after being radioactively poisoned, her lawyers said on Tuesday."Mrs. Suha Arafat, widow of Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat, has asked a Gay Pareeian legal practice to file suit against an unnamed person under French jurisdiction," lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur's practice said in a statement.
"Mrs. Arafat hopes that the authorities will be able to establish the exact circumstances of her husband's death and find out the truth so that justice can be done," it said.
The move comes after an investigation commissioned by Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
news channel found elevated levels of the radioactive substance polonium on some of Arafat's belongings, suggesting the leader could have been poisoned.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
has said he will ask the Swiss experts who probed Arafat's death to take samples from his body in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah for further tests.
Polonium, which is highly toxic, was used to kill Russian former spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 after drinking tea laced with the substance at a London restaurant.
The Al-Jazeera investigation, broadcast last week, centered around the testing of some of Arafat's belongings, which the Percy military hospital gave to Suha Arafat after his death.
Suha Arafat gave Al-Jazeera permission to take possession of the items, which included clothing Arafat wore in the days before he died aged 75, and hand them over for specialist testing.
Suha Arafat has said she would seek an exhumation to allow specialists to take additional samples for testing, and the Paleostinian leadership has said it would be willing to allow exhumation if Arafat's family agreed.
Many Paleostinians believe Arafat was poisoned by Israel, which has denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
accusing Suha Arafat and Paleostinian officials of covering up the real reasons for the former leader's death.