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Summary The widow of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday formally asked for a French investigation into his death.
Bringing a complaint of assassination weeks after raising new suspicions that the former Palestinian leader was poisoned before his 2004 death in a French military hospital, Yasser Arafat’s wife Suha has asked for probe into his death.Earlier this month, Palestinian authorities gave final approval for Arafats body to be exhumed. In recent tests of Arafats belongings requested by his widow and the Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera, a Swiss lab detected elevated traces of polonium-210 a rare and highly lethal substance but said the findings were inconclusive and that Arafats bones would have to be tested. And questions remain about the results of any additional tests after so long.French doctors have said Arafat died of a massive stroke and had suffered from a blood condition.A French judge will still have to decide whether to accept the complaint also brought on behalf of Suha Arafats daughter and open an investigation. According to a statement from the familys French lawyer, Pierre-Olivier Sur, Tuesdays request was intended to establish the truth in honor of their husband and father.
