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Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat Was Assasinated With Radioactove Polonium, Tests Show

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And so another conspiracy theory, that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with Polonium, becomes non-conspiracy fact. From Reuters:

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse.

 

"We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she told Reuters in Paris.

 

A team of experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital's Institute of Radiation Physics, opened Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah last November, and took samples from his body to seek evidence of alleged poisoning. "This has confirmed all our doubts," said Suha Arafat, who met members of the Swiss forensic team in Geneva on Tuesday. "It is scientifically proved that he didn't die a natural death and we have scientific proof that this man was killed."

 

She did not accuse any country or person, and acknowledged that the historic leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization had many enemies. Arafat signed the 1993 Oslo interim peace accords with Israel and led a subsequent uprising after the failure of talks in 2000 on a comprehensive agreement.

 

Allegations of foul play surfaced immediately. Arafat had foes among his own people, but many Palestinians pointed the finger at Israel, which had besieged him in his Ramallah headquarters for the final two and a half years of his life.

 

The Israeli government has denied any role in his death, noting that he was 75 years old and had an unhealthy lifestyle.

 

An investigation by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television news channel first reported last year that traces of polonium-210 were found on personal effects of Arafat given to his widow by the French military hospital where he died.

 

That led French prosecutors to open an investigation for suspected murder in August 2012 at the request of Suha Arafat. Forensic experts from Switzerland, Russia and France all took samples from his corpse for testing after the Palestinian Authority agreed to open his mausoleum.

 

"SMOKING GUN"

 

The head of the Russian forensics institute, Vladimir Uiba, was quoted by the Interfax news agency last month as saying no trace of polonium had been found on the body specimens examined in Moscow, but his Federal Medico-Biological Agency later denied he had made any official comment on its findings.

 

The French pathologists have not reported their conclusions publicly, nor have their findings been shared with Suha Arafat's legal team. A spokeswoman for the French prosecutor's office said the investigating magistrats had received no expert reports so far.

 

One of her lawyers said the Swiss institute's report, commissioned by Al Jazeera, would be translated from English into French and handed over to the three magistrates in the Paris suburb of Nanterre who are investigating the case.

...

 

The Al Jazeera investigation was spearheaded by investigative journalist Clayton Swisher, a former U.S. Secret Service bodyguard who became friendly with Arafat and was suspicious of the manner of his death.

 

Hani al-Hassan, a former aide, said in 2003 that he had witnessed 13 assassination attempts on Arafat's life, dating back to his years on the run as PLO leader. Arafat claimed to have survived 40 attempts on his life.

Now... whoever may have wanted the leader of the Palestinians dead?

He escaped another attempt on his life when Israeli warplanes came close to killing him during the invasion of Beirut when they hit one of the buildings they suspected he was using as his headquarters but he was not there. In December 2001, Arafat was rushed to safety just before Israeli helicopters bombarded his compound in Ramallah with rockets.

Oh wait...

 

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Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:32 | 4127755 Kinskian
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Different religion? Jesus on the subject...

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:38 | 4128230 Kirk2NCC1701
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JC tried to revert the faith to its Mosaic basis -- having been corrupted and hijacked By & For the Few, who wanted all to observe the Satanic version that dated back to the Mesopotamian days/nights.

When he realized that he couldn't, he then decided to start fresh -- from the ground up, so to speak.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:19 | 4127400 akarc
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Considering present day America it's probably politically correct to hate anyone who won't lay down and take an ass whooping and does a pretty good job at embracing capitalism.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:34 | 4127193 Rudolf Havenstein
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I expect a cry of outrage, OUTRAGE, from ADL any moment now. I mean, he was a Semite. 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:54 | 4127296 Carl Popper
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Yes indeed. A genetic semite.

As opposed to the european descendants currently occupying the area, and claiming such heritage.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:30 | 4127747 G.O.O.D
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dats raycist

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:20 | 4127403 mickeyman
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What interests me about this is some of the other assassinations involving polonium, which were previously not ascribed to the Israelis.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:26 | 4127152 orangegeek
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holy shit - call Barry - get the drones

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:27 | 4127155 Yen Cross
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 http://warincontext.org/2012/07/04/the-effects-of-polonium-poisoning/

Weight for weight Po-210 is a million times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide. A microgram, (no larger than a speck of dust), would deliver a fatal dose of radiation.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:36 | 4127202 ebworthen
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Wow.

Had to have been someone close to him to get it in his tea or falafel with only him ingesting it.

Amazing toxicity; frightening - thanks for the link.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:28 | 4127160 unknownknowns
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The Israeli government has denied any role in his death, noting that he was 75 years old and had an unhealthy lifestyle.

 

Yep, Polonium cocktails after dinner are obviously bad for you!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:34 | 4127167 Rainman
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Seems Attempt #41 was a winner winner chicken dinner . When at first you don't succeed ...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:09 | 4127642 SilverSavant
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Keep sucking!!!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:29 | 4127171 dick cheneys ghost
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free francis_sawyer

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:58 | 4127310 stormsailor
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release francis_sawyer from his political bondage.  being held in exile due to his religious beliefs.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:15 | 4127380 akarc
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hate=religion! Yepper, historically that would probably be accurate.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:17 | 4127385 Thisson
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Fuck Francis_sawyer.  He sucks.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:12 | 4128144 stormsailor
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don't call him francis, or he'ill kill ya

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:46 | 4127524 emersonreturn
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i don't understand why F_S no longer posts, while some mayn't approve or agree with some of his thoughts, F_S gave a thorough and divergent perspective and more often than not gave one pause.  hypatia and other pagans believed ideas especially those contrasting oughtn't be something to fear or banish but rather investigate and  dispell, disprove through reason and argument rather than banishment...it was the central clash between the crhistans and pagans.  

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:06 | 4127630 stormsailor
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YEAH, psycho was a nut.  but he was our nut.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:20 | 4128165 Wen_Dat
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FS caught a double tap from tyler

 

Francis...Dethrone

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:41 | 4128250 Kirk2NCC1701
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So why isn't he back under a different ID, and more 'polite' (PC) version?

Maybe he got so fed up, that he used the occasion to pack it in?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:48 | 4128282 Wen_Dat
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he is, i think...

once you go hedge, you never go back

e_quitation was another of his possible handles that was terminated with dethrone

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:30 | 4127172 Carl Popper
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Tyler you poked the hornets nest again. Everybody dig in for a long fight.

This is fight club, bitchez.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:30 | 4127174 Disenchanted
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re: "an unhealthy lifestyle."

So that's what being on the wrong side of Israel's Gov't is called?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:31 | 4127177 Dr. Engali
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Sounds like Putin had a hand in this.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:34 | 4127190 0b1knob
Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:37 | 4127200 Dr. Engali
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I was just getting ready to post that link. I'll post this one instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:37 | 4127481 Karl von Bahnhof
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Dear Doc. Dont be a wiki fool!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:36 | 4127203 RSloane
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I was thinking of someone a little closer to home, someone like the House of Saud.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:31 | 4127180 Shrapnel
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Sincerely,

Mossad

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:33 | 4127187 replaceme
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I'm sure Obama wants to know what drones can carry polonium now....

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:34 | 4127195 falak pema
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the polonium kid rides again. Who is the masked man THIS time?

Proxy wars, proxy killers using failsafe methods.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:36 | 4127201 LoneStarHog
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Conspiracy Theory For Dummies:  Today's Conspiracy Theory Is Tomorrow's News Headline

That is all the non-believer dummies (a.k.a. Tools) need to know.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:38 | 4127206 Quinvarius
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Well.  Arafat was a huge Dbag.  He is so bad that if he were still alive, Obama would be giving him weapons.  Do not shed tears for that assbag or worry about the manner of his death.  He deserved worse.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:01 | 4127322 Carl Popper
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I shed no tears for that greedy hypocrite.

I do shed tears for the rule of law and limited government.

May they rest in peace

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:37 | 4127210 Bosch
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Polonium, for when throwing him in an oven isn't practical. 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:38 | 4127212 MrPoopypants
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Makes me wonder about Hugo Chavez.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:43 | 4127236 Pizza man
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Chavez deserved every minute of pain. But he was treated in the People's medical utopia of Cuba. I'm sure those thugs tested their comrad for all sorts of nefarious problems as that's their stock in trade. 

But sometimes, it's just cancer and the hand of God.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:18 | 4127685 pods
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Hand of God?

I doubt Goldman had anything to do with his death.

pods

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 15:51 | 4128057 Idisq
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Hand of the Spaghetti Monster you douchenozzle!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:45 | 4127246 Bosch
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Let's hope!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:47 | 4127257 TBT or not TBT
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That will make no sense to the antisemite brand of third world sick tyrant fellating nutjobs on this thread.    

What would be the Zionist's motivation to off a south american tyrant when they've got plenty of far more problematic leaders of terror cells and even actual armies right up against their borders?   

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:12 | 4127371 akarc
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And of course it could never have been one of his own people that whacked him because after all people never kill one of their own.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:44 | 4127810 geewhiz
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Not all ZH'ers are antisemite nutjobs. Some are just antisemenetic critical thinkers who take the trouble to think the thing over ten times when it might originate from the duplicitous hand of the tribe.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:50 | 4127839 Liquid Courage
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... What would be the Zionist's motivation ...

To fulfill the terms of their (unwritten) contract with ???????? cui bono ????????

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:44 | 4128264 Kirk2NCC1701
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Chavez got "toasted" also.  The Venezuelan Gov should look into it:  Rad poisoning.  Courtesy of the CIA.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:39 | 4127218 Pizza man
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So, they try to bomb him time and again, but can't..but they can get close enough to poison him with plutonium? If they could get that close after failing with bombs, why not lead poison? BLAM BLAM.

Doesn't make sense. I agree with one of our fellows. Look to Russia. Radio active poisoning is right up their alley.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:06 | 4128685 Seer
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"So, they try to bomb him time and again, but can't..but they can get close enough to poison him with plutonium?"

Intel.

Easier to sneak in some microscopic particle than a large bomb (which requires a bit more coordination -more people- to launch).

And how would Russia benefit?

 

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/russia-sends-arafat-backing-fo...

Russia sends Arafat backing for Palestinian state

President Vladimir Putin has sent President Yasser Arafat a message reasserting Russian support for a separate Palestinian state and a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the Middle East, the Kremlin said yesterday.

 

If anything's to happen it would be cleared through Putin.  Granted, what is stated in the public domain cannot be construed as the "truth," but at least there's something tangible out there speaking to this point (unlike others who just blurt shit out w/o any reference supporting their statements).

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:40 | 4127223 y3maxx
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...Arafat funnelled multi millions of stolen Palestinian $$$ to His wife in Paris.

It's all BS....as long as 25% - 40% of the American economy is Military Industrial Complex who are trying to either BK or Blowup the rest of the Planet to save their own sorry Asses....everything else is all BS.

***But Wait Now***

...If Obamacare does in fact drop thousands of dying people from their coverage....these American Citizens, who have nothing to lose, will become the future Mall Shooters and Washington Mall Self Immolations.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:42 | 4127233 Pig Circus
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Bullshit the Faggot died of Aids.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:20 | 4127692 pods
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Most  "AIDS" deaths occur from liver failure from treatment.

AZT poisoning=AIDS.

pods

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:42 | 4127235 hustler etiquette
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jfk, 9/11, arafat,

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:44 | 4127242 29.5 hours
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"Professor David Barclay, a British forensic scientist retained by Al Jazeera to interpret the results of the Swiss tests, said the findings from Arafat's body confirmed the earlier results from traces of bodily fluids on his underwear, toothbrush and clothing. 

"In my opinion, it is absolutely certain that the cause of his illness was polonium poisoning," Barclay told Reuters."

Polonium is normally associated with radioactivity. It is also a poison -- something we had to be aware of when I worked in the nuke industry during its Golden Age (before 3 Mile Island).

 

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:51 | 4127268 29.5 hours
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Posting the above, I suddenly flashed on the night I was standing outside the 3 Mile Island plant when the so-called "hydrogen bubble" was supposedly ready to blow up.

I looked down the river to the nearby Hershey's Chocolate factory and wondered...

Since then I have not been totally into eating Hershey's chocolate. Not their fault of course...

 

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:47 | 4127255 ziggy59
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I guess it wasnt the US..since the Executive Order not to assasinate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333

but wait..
Theres more..

?Bin Laden...
?Ghadaffi..
?Chavez..

Nevermind..

They hate for our freedoms..

Maybe they hate us for the Freedom to kill whoever the fuck they choose?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:53 | 4127281 Azannoth
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Had they killed him with Fluoride at least they could say "Well he was brushing his teeth too much.." and avoid a controversy, but who knows maybe Polonium is good for your skin or something..

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:52 | 4127283 Seasmoke
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Why do Americans have to pick a side. The Tribe killed Arafat. Now let them fight each other while we keep our money and soldiers on this continent.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:54 | 4127288 youngman
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I would say the wife is the first suspect...she had the most to gain..This was obviously before drones....who needs Pulonium now when you got Global hawk

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:58 | 4127311 fooshorter
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At Least he suddenly didn't get cancer...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:58 | 4127312 czarangelus
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Damn those two faced hook nose lying duplicitous Scottish. It's fucking incredible that 1.7% of the population could have so much control over banking, media, and foreign policy, and dual Scottish nationals are obviously compromising our national security on a secondly basis.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:08 | 4127353 Carl Popper
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Francis Sawyer? Welcome back!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 12:59 | 4127315 Frank N. Beans
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Polonium?  Isn't that what you get from getting whacked with a polo mallet on your cranium? 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:08 | 4127357 akarc
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No thats crabuymorism

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:01 | 4127323 TimTom
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Rampant skepticism of all things is the defining characteristic of this site that brings me back again and again. I'm a little surprised that you present this information as definitive given the fact that the only ones who found traces of polonium were a team funded by Al Jazeera and lead by a friend of Arafat who was clearly biased. Plenty of room for skepticism there. 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:10 | 4128702 Seer
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Exactly!  Perhaps we ought to get the 9/11 Commission to do this right!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:13 | 4128710 el Gallinazo
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I hear that Henry Kissinger is free to head up the inquiry.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:02 | 4127325 Save_America1st
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who cares?  What about our own government which has been on a kill crazy rampage, assassinating Navy Seals, reporters (who don't parrot the state-run propaganda), government agents who "know too much", and other citizens...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:08 | 4127356 Joebloinvestor
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He deserved a burial at sea.

They should have strapped his rotting corpse to a wheelchair and rolled it off the deck of the MS Achille Lauro.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:17 | 4127387 Carl Popper
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Well played!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 15:05 | 4127897 therevolutionwas
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Sounds like we all agree.  Let's get the hell out of the middle east.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:23 | 4127405 Blazed
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I guess he should have been buried at sea with the 34 USS Liberty sailors that Israel murdered in their false flag attempt! 

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/06/07/alan-hart-israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-the-full-story/

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 15:08 | 4127898 Jackagain
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Poorly played...the good old USA was behind that false flag incident. That's why Israel didn't have to pay....

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMhN9Kv1OLY                                                        

 

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:11 | 4128708 el Gallinazo
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No, Johnson just didn't want to wind up like Kennedy.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:12 | 4127372 Mercury
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And so another conspiracy theory, that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with Polonium, becomes non-conspiracy fact.

 

Actually that would make it simply a conspiracy fact.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:13 | 4127375 Took Red Pill
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Who can say who did this? He had many enemies I'm sure, including Arabs.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:15 | 4127377 highwaytoserfdom
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Barry is this a line in the sand on WMD's?   Is this why Israel is bombing Syria?   Watch AIPAC propaganda MSM play with this one.. Heck Israel is largest drone maker could have used it and blamed it on the Droneinator murderer Barry...   One word to the last 3 POTUS

 

Neuenberg

 

http://www.constitutionproject.org/publications-resources/detainee-task-...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:19 | 4127397 ToNYC
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Round up the Usual Suspects, says Keyser Soze.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:30 | 4127442 TNTARG
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It's hard to figure it out who has been killing any "inconvenient" leader everywhere.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:42 | 4127507 highwaytoserfdom
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POPO  contact

Press Inquires

EMAIL:

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:43 | 4127519 cougar_w
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No autopsy was allowed by his family, but Arafat was determined from his symptoms to have died of a stroke. Not uncommon at 75. Polonium as not that easy to test for and the Po210 radiation profile is hard to separate from natural background levels. Having conducted similar kinds of toxicology tests myself (not Polonium) during an environmental cleanup I can say flat out that any kind of sloppy work will render your results at best useless, at worst misleading. Of the three recent Po210 toxicology testing teams, one team reported finding Polonium and another team found none at all. There are reports that Polonium was found on some of his personal effects. An expert on radiation toxicology opines that the symptoms of Arafat's death were not suggestive of Polonium poisoning.

Polonium is highly mobile and easily transferred. In the Litvinenko poisoning, a few bystanders (including restaurant workers) received measurable doses apparently simply by being in the same room during the poisoning event, or later handling Polonium-contaminated materials. The stuff when released does not stay put.

Make of all that what you will.

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:48 | 4127542 Seize Mars
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Cougarw
So what are you saying? The people who did the test did it wrong?
Just fess up, you're an Israeli apologist. Stop the bullshit, misdirection and smoke screens. Murder is wrong.
You run a blog, right?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:21 | 4127596 cougar_w
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Hello. Forty-two. Happens. Nope. Well. Usually. Never.

Hope that helps.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:00 | 4127608 Buckaroo Banzai
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At first I thought that was a highly sophisticated satirical comment that you forgot to append a /sarc tag to.

Then I realized you might be a douche.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 22:36 | 4129479 Seize Mars
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No I'm not, you are.

(Best I could come up with.)

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:44 | 4127520 shovelhead
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Polonium flavored pork rinds.

Extra hot.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:52 | 4127559 TradingTroll
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The Israeli government has denied any role in his death, noting that he was 75 years old and had an unhealthy lifestyle.

 

The Israeli govt are experts in unhealthy

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:53 | 4127569 Quantum Nucleonics
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What BS. Notice how the wife didn't release the test details. Pure politics. The trace polonium is from Arafat's wicked smoking habit. For those who don't know, tobacco plants have a unique affinity for absorbing polonium. 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:03 | 4128673 el Gallinazo
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But that would induce lung cancer and his symptoms were of acute radiation sickness.  Nice try though.

Thu, 11/07/2013 - 03:59 | 4129986 Quantum Nucleonics
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Bzzz. Nice try though. Smoking was the source of the trace polonium, but not the proximate cause of his demise. His symptoms don't match well with radiation poisoning, more likely a gastroenterological infection. Maybe an infection in the bile duct or pancreas. Not uncommon in geriatric patients.  Often, there's an underlying immune issue like myeloma or leukemia.

Lung cancer is just one of many fun cancers from smoking. There are a bunch of blood cancers too.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:55 | 4127588 Robsabi
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So far, the only word we have on this is from his wife, who is biased, eager to announce findings that confirm her prior beliefs, and hardly a reliable source. While not denying the possibility foul play was involved, I'd like to hear the test results announced by the group that actually performed the tests to find out how significant the findings were.

Also, I'd like to point out that so far the Russians are the only ones known specifically to favor polonium to assassinate people giving them trouble. Just sayin...

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:48 | 4128284 Kirk2NCC1701
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So... not due to Polonium-enhanced cigarettes?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 17:38 | 4128416 DFCtomm
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No it was a radioactive cannon!

 

 

RADIOACTIVE CANNON BITCHZ!!!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 13:57 | 4127591 malek
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Next up:
Test results on Hugo Chavez.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:01 | 4128664 el Gallinazo
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Chavez certainly did not die for 210PO poisoning.  However there are many nasty tricks using chemical compounds and microwave radiation that can induce cancer.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:22 | 4128747 resurger
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i wont be surprised

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:22 | 4127653 HL Shancken
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Polonium 210 is a naturally occurring radiocative particle. It is one of the most radioactive that exist. It is part of the atmosphere we breathe. It settles on the ground and buildings and plants, including the things we eat. So, it can be said that there is a little bit of radiocativity in all of us.

 

When Russian FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated by the FSB with full knowledge of the Russian government, they used poloium 210, which Russia and few other countries even have access to in usable form. Russia is in possession of a large quantity of this highly restricted substance, and it was proven beyond doubt that some of what they had ended up in Litvinenko.

 

I do not believe it has been proven at all that Arafat, installed as he was by the KGB, his organization (the PLO was itself a KGB creation) was assassinated at all, much less with polonium 210. I recall that at the time of Litvinenko's death there was reporting which said that had the doctors not tested for it when they did, they would not have found it, as it has a very short half-life. This may or may not be entirely accurate, and so any evaluation of the findings about Arafat should involve research about polonium 210 with emphasis on whether or not it could even be detected in anything more than trace amounts after all this time. I think the answer will be that it could not.

 

The FSB-SVR (KGB) is well known for placement of dubious, misleading, and outright false articles in the worldwide press. A large staff is employed to produce these active measures which are fed into the information pipeline via FSB channels in various places, within various publications, so that there is never a direct connection to the FSB or the Russian state at all. But we have the testimony of more than a few defectors that tells us that for many decades now this is how the FSB has operated. According to one defector, Yuri Bezmenov, by the mid 1980's the ability of Moscow to manipulate the West by use of such FSB tactics had been a gigantic success, something beyond the wildest dreams of Soviet planners and strategists.

 

Note that the article, while vaguely mentioning Russia, in no way steers the reader in that direction. No. As always, suspicion must always rest in the West, if not with America, then Israel. This is what Romanian intelligence general and defector explained.

 

But that was then and this is now, you say?

 

Take note that when Putin came to power he issued a directive to all media in Russia that news reporting was now required to set the country of Russia and its government in a positive light and that all stories involving the US are now required to cast that country negatively. If you don't believe me you can look it up. You can also look up and find out that the major media in Russia are 50% or more government-owned, and in any case the FSB has a major role in running them all. What you can't do is ask Paul klebnikov. He was the American editor of Forbes who was assassinated by the Russian government in broad daylight in 2004 on a Moscow street.

 

But was Arafat, a KGB operative for the entire length of his life as a public figure, a suspected homosexual pedophile, a man in poor health for longer than he would have lived had he been dosed with polonium 210, a man who was rumored to have full-blown aids, a decrepit old man with one foot in the grave, killed by assassins risking their own lives should they be exposed to the slightest whiff of polonium 210 concentrate? Is that what I'm supposed to believe? And if so, that it was Israel that did it? Or the US? But not Russia, right?

 

Read this to see where I'm coming from:

 

http://www.nowpublic.com/politics/collapse-soviet-union-was-staged-0

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 18:57 | 4128643 el Gallinazo
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge of physics with us.  210PO does occur naturally in the environment as a degradation product of elements in the uranium decay series, but the concentration is infinitesmial due to its relatively short half life of 138 days.  

It is one of the most radioactive that exist.

That is a ridiculous statement.  There are hundreds of isotopes with much shorter half lives, many a fraction of a second.

It is written that one microgram ingested can kill a person.  Your statement that: 

It is part of the atmosphere we breathe. It settles on the ground and buildings and plants, including the things we eat. So, it can be said that there is a little bit of radiocativity in all of us.

is both technically true yet highly misleading in its implications.  The same could be said of atoms of calcium from the body of Jesus.  We all have a few.

So 210PO decreases to about one-eighth each year.  Assuming Arafat was killed with 210PO, the amount in his corpse 9 years later would be about 7.5X10-9 (if I didn't screw up the math) of the amount used to kill him.  I have no idea whether the latest technology can separate this out from the tiny amounts that exist naturally in the background, and I doubt you do either.  It certainly would be a compelling feat of quantitative analysis.


Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:19 | 4127690 geewhiz
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You know you are important to TPTB when they take the trouble to assassinate, suicide, disease, disappear, or accident you. Discrediting is harder to do because people are getting better informed via the internet. The highest value target right now is probably Putin.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:23 | 4127705 chindit13
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A short story...many years ago I was in a hotel lobby in Jeddah, enjoying some cardamom-spiced coffee and dates, when a few dozen heavily armed security men poured into the room.  A few moments later came Yasser Arafat and Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, then President of Pakistan.  There was a good deal of commotion, of little import, but par for these types of grand entrances.  It was a good show.  After a while, but before the two men left the lobby, I walked outside, where there was a line of parked military vehicles that had formed the motorcade escorting the men about town.  Right in front of the main doors sat a Jeep with a .50 caliber machine gun mounted in the back.  A long belt of ammo hung from it.  Nobody was in the jeep.  It was time for the evening prayer, and the faithful had gone off to pray.  Security, I decided, was....spotty.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:32 | 4127763 ILikeBoats
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Dumb question:  why is Suha Arafat in Paris and not in Palestine?  And how much money does she have?

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:33 | 4127767 JohnFrodo
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I say good riddance and take all his compatriots with him. Most are not Muslim or give a damm about Palistine.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:38 | 4127791 JLee2027
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Probably GOD sent an angel to smite him. He was an evil man.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:39 | 4127792 HL Shancken
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Chapter 2 p. 23

"BOTH of us want to influence America in our favor. Our methods are different, though. You, Brother Arafat, use arms. I use words."

"Struggle, Brother Ceausescu! Armed struggle and terror are the only things America respects."

"You, Brother Yasser, were here in 1972, and you are here now. You can see for yourself that nothing has changed in Romania in that time. We are still the same Communist country, where private property is not only prohibited--it is a disgrace. But the West now loves me. Two American presidents have come to Romania since I started my ´Horizon´ operation, none before. Now, in the past six years alone, I have gotten twelve billion dollars in Western credits--two billion a year. Ten years ago, the most important technological intelligence Romania could pry out of America was about hybrid corn. Now Bucharest is one of the best in the Warsaw Pact at collecting high tech intelligence on America."

"Is that really true?"

"It is not only what I think, it´s what Brezhnev just told me."

"Amazing."

"Before I started my ´Horizon´ operation, I couldn´t export anything to America. All I did was import their high tech. Now my exports almost equal my imports, and in ten years the balance will be ten to one in my favor. Five years ago I had barely a dozen intelligence officers over in America. Now I have five times that many, the ambassador included, and in a couple of years it´ll be ten times that many. And what has America gotten out of it all? Shit. Nothing but shit."

copyright 1987

From Red Horizons by Ion Mahai Pacepa, former head of Romanian intelligence.

 

 

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:42 | 4127805 HL Shancken
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Red Horizons, p. 25

Ceausecu took a whole tomato and bit into it like an apple, splattering juice and seeds. Then he stuffed his mouth full of onion and feta cheese, mechanically wiping his fingers off on the white damask tablecloth, all the while studying Arafat with his shifting, badger-like eyes.

"How are your influence operations going?"

"The advisors Hassan got from Brother Pacepa are true artists."

Ceausescu picked up on the idea. "Influence is indeed an art, a skill."

"At this very moment we´ve got something going in Vienna," Hassan intervened, "and the results might be a peace prize from Kreisky." Bruno Kreiski was the chancellor of Austria at the time.

Arafat burst into a peal of laughter. "A gift from a Jew to the PLO. Wouldn´t that be marvelous?"

"We have another operation using Abu Nidal," Hassan added.

"Who would ever suspect that Nidal, my fiercest enemy, the very fellow who is killing off my men, could actually be doing things for me?" Arafat boasted.

"Congratulations," said Ceausescu, "How about pretending to break with terrorism? The West would love it."

"Just pretending, like with your independence?"

"Exactly. But pretending over and over. Political influence, like dialectical materialism, is built on the same basic tenet that quantitative accumulation generates qualitative transformation."

"I´m not the expert on Marxism that you are, Brother Ceausescu."

"Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let´s say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man." That´s the qualitative transformation."

"A snort of a pacifist Arafat day after day...?"

"Exactly, Brother Yasser. The West may even become addicted to your PLO."

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:46 | 4127807 smartstrike
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So who benefited from Arafat's death? Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran. Israel now faces threats on two fronts if they ever decide to take out Ayatollahs with nukes in Tehran.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 17:39 | 4128361 DFCtomm
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You know what the Devil's play in this is? Israel uses the "Samson in the temple" strategy and nukes the whole Middle East when they get attacked. Two, troublesome, birds with one stone. Hopefully we've supplied them with plenty of neutron weapons so we can get to pumping that oil quickly after the dust settles.

 

 

RADIOACTIVE CANNON BITCHZ!!!

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:52 | 4127850 bourbondave
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So, we are to believe that the evidence is pointing to Israel but the widow is reserving judgment on who is responsible?  Palestinians have consistently showed such restraint so this makes complete sense.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 14:57 | 4127869 Jackagain
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Late Mossad payback for the 1972 Olympics....

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:00 | 4128088 Satan
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Is it just me or was the guy half camel?

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:09 | 4128130 roadhazard
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That fucker should have been dead twenty times. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 16:39 | 4128243 El Hosel
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Wow, Halloween all over again. Definitely not just another pretty face.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 17:01 | 4128321 robertocarlos
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No wonder I still watch SpongeBobSquarePants. fuck every thing.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 17:53 | 4128458 Bugsquasher
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I was about as moved by his death as I was when I heard that Jeffry Dahlmer had been murdered in prison.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 18:29 | 4128546 geewhiz
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I don't know if the Mossad killed Arafat, it is logical that they did. It's also logical that they put him in power to fuck up the Palestinians quest for freedom and offed him when he was of no further use. Although Putin poloniumated Alexander Litvinenko who was just doing his bit for the Mossad by trying to discredit Putin for running the Zionist oligarchy out of Russia and redirect the Russian presstitute which Zionists controlled at the time. Remember Zionists had already properly fucked Russia with the Bolshevik revolution and Putin and his backers are on a mission to return Russian to Christian moral status. So Litvinenko was just to show the Mossad what a nasty boy Vlad the Bad could be. He even intimated that he is not a house pet like the Zionist poodle Nigerian in the White House. Vlad is a yard Rottweiler and any trespasser on Russian soil had best watch their ass. In the meantime the Zionists are hard at work gutting America and Europe and too many of the American people have become too effete to defend themselves or even understand what ails them. There is a war for the soul of freedom going on; most Russians know it and most Americans don't.

This is a game for a chess player with nerves of steel. Sheeple cannot think at the level needed to defend themselves, they need a strong leader, backed by a dedicated and powerful group who know the score. Russia has that, America does not. I often wonder if Ron Paul is engineered opposition to bleed off defensive energy, time will tell, Ron Paul consistently says all the right things but he does not have Vladimir's ruthless streak to break this disease down. Zionists believe in ruthlessness because they are only killing and deceiving humanoid beasts called goyim. Satan has taught them that they are the only soul bearing chosen and uses them as his earthly cutouts to prepare his path. The deceivers have been deceived by the master of all deceivers. Dealing with them at certain levels means having an ability and willingness to play their game. Their motto may be "By way of deception, thou shalt do war" but Putin understands and uses deception with the best of them to defend his interests against the deceivers.

I don't think Putin poloniumed Arafat, if polonium was used the Mossad would have used it to cast a jaundiced eye on Putin who did polonium Livinenko who richly deserved it.

All people lie, many with quite a degree of sophistication. In my opinion nobody touches the Zionists for lying with tenacity, sophistication and sustained purpose. The Talmud, their G-d book inspired by Satan, has led that adopted Ashkenazim tribe down the wrong road. The poor sods probably really do think they are doing G-d's work.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:23 | 4128751 BigInJapan
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He died a multi-millionaire. Go figure!

His wife and children are now multi-millionaires. Go figure!

Wonder how he managed to get all that money, what with being a humble terrorist and all.

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 19:59 | 4128916 CTG_Sweden
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The largest Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet now confirms that Arafat was poisoned with polonium:

 

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article17797475.ab

Thu, 11/07/2013 - 08:34 | 4130194 esum
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