Wheels of Justice!

[JackLuis]

What Killed Arafat?

Tests have revealed that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal effects, which were analysed at the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, were variously stained with Arafat’s blood, sweat, saliva and urine. The tests carried out on those samples suggested that there was a high level of polonium inside his body when he died.

The findings have led Suha Arafat, his widow, to ask the Palestinian Authority to exhume her late husband’s body from its grave in Ramallah.

But a conclusive finding that Arafat was poisoned with polonium would not explain who killed him. It is a difficult element to produce, though – it requires a nuclear reactor – and the signature of the polonium in Arafat’s bones could provide some insight about its origin.

Ah Ha! Polonium, not something easily found in the kitchen.

Now who would have the polonium. and would want to off Arafat?

How is polonium produced?

It occurs naturally in uranium ores, but at extremely small concentrations, as low as 100 micrograms per ton of ore.

Rather than laboriously extracting it from uranium, modern-day manufacturers create polonium in nuclear reactors, by bombarding bismuth with neutrons. Most of the world’s polonium supply is produced in Russia.

 

[islandman]

Didn't the Russians use that same try on an ex-spy in German some years ago?

Here we are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

 

[coachdb18]

More likely scenario, with Arafat being a known terrorist, that he was involved with the Polonium poisoning death of Aleksandr Litvinenko, and got a little on himself...

 

[Bert Notorius]

Destabilize OPEC and Russia becomes the new oil spigot on the block.