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Arafat death probe results delayed till May
Thursday March 07, 2013 11:59:42 PM,
Agencies
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Lausanne: The results of a probe into claims
that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium
will not be known until the end of May, the Swiss lab carrying out
the tests has said.
The Swiss University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne
announced the delay in the results, which were previously
estimated to be released in three to four months, after Arafat's
body was exhumed in November.
"There are two series of tests that have to be carried out. The
first one is complete and we're going to start the second one, so
there won't be tangible results until the end of May," said Darcy
Christen, spokesman for the Laussane lab.
The tests were partly a result of an Al Jazeera's investigation
into the death of the Palestinian leader, who died in November
2004 in a French hospital, which discovered abnormal traces of the
radioactive substance, polonium-210, in Arafat's personal effects.
Experts took some 60 samples from his remains after the
exhumation, the samples were distributed among three teams doing
seperate analyses: the Lausanne lab, a French team carrying out a
probe at the request of Arafat's widow Suha, and Russian experts
appointed by the Palestianian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority has said it will petition the
International Criminal Court in The Hague if proof is found that
the veteran leader was poisoned.
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