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Yasser Arafat, Polonium Poisoning and the Curies

Michael Freemantle | Posted 27.01.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Yasser Arafat, Middle East, Chemistry, Forensics, Marie Curie, Medicine, Palestine, UK Tech, UK Tech 2013, UK Tech News
Michael Freemantle

Polonium is a silver-grey metallic chemical element that can exist as 33 different species known as isotopes. All 33 isotopes are radioactive. The one that is suspected of killing Arafat is polonium-210, the same isotope that killed the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.

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WATCH: Yasser Arafat Exhumed And Tested For Poison

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat Poisoned, Yasser Arafat, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, UK News, UK World, Yasser Arafat Exhumed, Video, UK News

It was over with no fanfare. The corpse of Yasser Arafat, which it has taken experts almost three weeks to exhume from his Ramallah resting place, eme...

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Body Of Palestinian Leader To Be Exhumed

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.11.2012 | UK
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The body of the former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, is to be exhumed next week amidst suspicions he may have been poisoned. Arafat, who led t...

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I Protest The Inaccuracies In 'Ten Things You Need To Know About Gaza' By Mehdi Hasan

Doron Lubinsky | Posted 21.01.2013 | UK Politics
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Doron Lubinsky

The core issue in the conflict is not "settlements" nor "occupation" nor even land. After all Israel is the size of New Jersey. The Arab world controls more land than the USA. And Jordan, which is 78% of Balfour Mandate Palestine, alone is four times the size of Israel.

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A Beginner's Guide to the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Dave Cohen | Posted 21.01.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Palestine, Yitzhak Rabin, Gaza, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Hamas, Oslo Accord, Plo, Yasser Arafat, Binyamin Netanyahu, UK Politics News
Dave Cohen

What this conflict lacks is a politician on either side (or both) who can see that violence serves only to perpetuate more violence. The massive wall across the length of Israel's border did stop the suicide bombings, but unless the Israelis can build it 30,000 feet high it's not going to stop the shells landing in Ashkelon. (If there are any Israeli Ministers reading this by the way, that's a joke, please don't try it.)

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Was Yasser Arafat Murdered On Orders Of Ariel Sharon?

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 29.08.2012 | UK
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French authorities have launched a murder inquiry into the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat’s widow, Suha, who lives in t...

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Palestinian President 'Gives Permission To Exhume Yasser Arafat'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 09.07.2012 | UK
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly given his permission for late leader Yasser Arafat to be exhumed over claims he was poisoned by rad...

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Yasser Arafat's Body 'Could Be Exhumed'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.07.2012 | UK
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Palestination authorities have said they see no reason why Yasser Arafat's body cannot be exhumed after it was alleged the late leader was poisoned wi...

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Caroline Frost

'He Was Married To The Cause As Well As Me'

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK Entertainment
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"He got married to me, and we had a daughter, but he was married to the cause. I was a friend of the cause." Thus Suha Yarafat, Yasser's widow, set...

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The Truth About Jordan

Nehad Ismail | Posted 11.03.2012 | UK
Read More: King Abdullah of Jordan, Two-State Solution, Quartet, Pflp, Plo, Hamas, Hezbollah, World News, Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty, Yasser Arafat, Arab Spring, Khaled Mashal, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dr. Joseph Olmert, King Hussein, Reforms, Black September 1970, UK News
Nehad Ismail

I read with interest Dr. Joseph Olmert's article Something Is Happening in Jordan. The excellent article raised a number of contentious points and I am not going in this piece to analyse every point but would like to clarify a number of issues which Dr. Olmert touched on in his article.

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The Gaddafi Family Around World: Pictures with the Rich, Famous And Powerful

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Yasser Arafat, Politics, Libya News, Libya, Funny Pictures, Muammar Gaddafi, Political Humor, Aisha Gaddafi, Gaddafi Killed, Slideshow, World Leaders, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Celebrities, UK News

Anna Kournikova, 50 Cent, Harvey Weinstein... The Gaddafi's 'Little Black Book' was certainly eclectic. Scroll through to see the the colonel and fami...

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