Hogaamiyahii Falastiin Yasir Arafat oo la Xaqiijiyay In La sumeeyay. Posted by mohamed on July 03 2012 13:31:14Extended NewsHogaamiyahii Falastiin Yasir Arafat oo la Xaqiijiyay In La sumeeyay.
Hogaamiyahoo Hore ee Dalka Falastiin Yasser Arafat oo la baarayay sababaha uu u dhintay ayaa lagu soo gaba gabeeyay In Hogaamiyaha la sumeeyay.
Sababo kalla Duwan ayaa la sheegay Inuu u dhintay Hogaamiyaha sida, Xanuunka Kansarka, Beer Xanuun, Iyo HIV oo lagu talaalay balse dhamaan waxay noqdeen been.
Macadka Baaritaanka ku sameeyay Geeridda Yasser Arafat oo ku yaalla Dalka Switzerland ayaa sheegay in Dhiigiisa DNA ee laga qaaday Saacadihii oogu danbeeyay laga helay Chemicalka loo yaqaan polonium.
Sidoo Kalle Kaadidiisa oo baaritaan lagu sameeyay ayay sheegeen In laga helay Suntan oo ah Mid aad u saraysa oo aan caadi ahayn.
Dr. Francois Bochud oo ah Agaasimaha Macadka Baaritaanka sameeyay ayaa sheegay In Dhamaan Baadhitaanka ay sameeyeen laga helay nooca Chemical loo yaqaan polonium.
Chemical oo ah mid khatar ah ayaa waxaa la helay sannadkii 1898 waxaana helay Dr Marie Curie Iyo Gabadheeda Irene.
Qofkii oogu horeeyay ee Suntan Chemical ku dhintay ayaa hayd qofkii sameeyay Kadib Markii Shaybaarka oo Baadhitaan ku samaynaysay ay ka soo raacday Suntan.
Qoraalka oo Buuxa hoos ka akhriso sidoo Kalle Muuqaalka ka Waramaya Hoos Ka Daawo.
What Killed Arafat
Tests hint at possible Arafat poisoning.
Nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera discovers rare, radioactive polonium on ex-Palestinian leader's final belongings.
Gregg Carlstrom
It was a scene that riveted the world for weeks: The ailing Yasser Arafat, first besieged by Israeli tanks in his Ramallah compound, then shuttled to Paris, where he spent his final days undergoing a barrage of medical tests in a French military hospital.
Eight years after his death, it remains a mystery exactly what killed the longtime Palestinian leader. Tests conducted in Paris found no obvious traces of poison in Arafat’s system. Rumors abound about what might have killed him – cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, even allegations that he was infected with HIV.
A nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed that none of those rumors were true: Arafat was in good health until he suddenly fell ill on October 12, 2004.
More importantly, tests reveal 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 analyzed 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.
“I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids,” said Dr. Francois Bochud, the director of the institute.
Unsupported polonium
The institute studied Arafat’s personal effects, which his widow provided to Al Jazeera, the first time they had been examined by a laboratory. Doctors did not find any traces of common heavy metals or conventional poisons, so they turned their attention to more obscure elements, including polonium.
About the institute
The study of Arafat's medical file and belongings was carried out at the University Hospital Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The university's Centre of Legal Medicine is considered one of the best forensic pathology labs in the world.
It has studied evidence for the United Nations in East Timor and the International Criminal Court in the former Yugoslavia, and it investigated the death of Princess Diana, among other well-known personalities.
It is a highly radioactive element used, among other things, to power spacecraft. Marie Curie discovered it in 1898, and her daughter Irene was among the first people it killed: She died of leukemia several years after an accidental polonium exposure in her laboratory.
At least two people connected with Israel’s nuclear program also reportedly died after exposure to the element, according to the limited literature on the subject.
But polonium’s most famous victim was Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy-turned-dissident who died in London in 2006 after a lingering illness. A British inquiry found that he was poisoned with polonium slipped into his tea at a sushi restaurant.
There is little scientific consensus about the symptoms of polonium poisoning, mostly because there are so few recorded cases. Litvinenko suffered severe diarrhea, weight loss, and vomiting, all of which were symptoms Arafat exhibited in the days and weeks after he initially fell ill.
Animal studies have found similar symptoms, which lingered for weeks - depending on the dosage – until the subject died. “The primary radiation target… is the gastrointestinal tract,” said an American study conducted in 1991, “activating the ‘vomiting centre’ in the brainstem.”
Scientists in Lausanne found elevated levels of the element on Arafat’s belongings - in some cases, they were ten times higher than those on control subjects, random samples which were tested for comparison.
The lab’s results were reported in millibecquerels (mBq), a scientific unit used to measure radioactivity.
Polonium is present in the atmosphere, but the natural levels that accumulate on surfaces barely register, and the element disappears quickly. Polonium-210, the isotope found on Arafat's belongings, has a half-life of 138 days, meaning that half of the substance decays roughly every four-and-a-half months. “Even in case of a poisoning similar to the Litvinenko case, only traces of the order of a few [millibecquerels] were expected to be found in [the] year 2012,” the institute noted in its report to Al Jazeera.
But Arafat’s personal effects, particularly those with bodily fluids on them, registered much higher levels of the element. His toothbrushes had polonium levels of 54mBq; the urine stain on his underwear, 180mBq. (Another man’s pair of underwear, used as a control, measured just 6.7mBq.)
Further tests, conducted over a three-month period from March until June, concluded that most of that polonium – between 60 and 80 per cent, depending on the sample – was “unsupported,” meaning that it did not come from natural sources.