Arafat poisoned ?

[intissar]

Arafat fell suddenly sick when he ate soup with Abbas, Querie and somebody who was labeled by the news as "a third unnamed official". I did not find any news that named this "third unnamed official". Does anybody know who it was ???

Then he suddenly vomited. That speaks for a sudden illness. It is easy to pour liquid, tasteless poison in a soup - as compared to tampering with his cornflakes. Then his personal doctor was forbidden access to him, as reported on al jazeera. Now his personal doctor publicly demands an inquiry into his cause of death which was never published.

Why did so many doctors from various Arab countries come immediately ? Did they all want to cover for each other so that nobody can be assigned blame for killing Arafat by not treating him right and instead aggravating his condition ?

The news reported a low platelet count. There are blood transfusions that temporarily make up for the low platelet count. Yet there are no reports naming this common treatment.
As platelets are responsible for blot clotting it does not cause a brain bleeding. And why was this bleeding not treated given the successes of nowadays neurosurgey where tumors and bleedings are successfully treated ?

Abbas and Querie clearly benefit from his death in terms of money and power. And they benefit Israel - what did either one accomplish that has benefitted the Palestinian people ?

[Mansoor Ali]

From Prisonplanet.com :

Amman - A leading Jordanian neurologist who regularly examined Yasser Arafat said on Friday that poisoning was the "highest" probable cause of the Palestinian leader's mysterious death and urged that an autopsy be performed.

"One of the causes of platelet deficiency is poison," said Dr Ashraf al-Kurdi, who examined a gravely ill Arafat in his besieged compound in the West Bank town of Rammallah two weeks ago.

Arafat died on Thursday in Paris, where he had flown on October 29 for treatment after tests indicated he had a low count of blood platelets, components that help clotting.

Although "not definitive, I believe the highest reason for Arafat's mysterious death is poisoning," al-Kurdi told The Associated Press in an interview on Friday.

"Therefore, there should be an autopsy performed," added al-Kurdi, who had been Arafat's personal physician for the last two decades.

There has been widespread speculation that Arafat could have been poisoned by Israel. Neither doctors nor Palestinian leaders have said what caused Arafat's death after days in a coma at a Paris hospital.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Thursday dismissed allegations that Israel killed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as "scandalous and false."

[Mansoor Ali]

“We took action against Ahmed Yassin and Abdelaziz Rantisi and a few other murderers when we thought the time was right.

"On the matter of Arafat we will operate in the same way, when we find the convenient and suitable time.

"One needs to find the time and to do what has to be done.”

----- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Sept. 18, 2004

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this week made a clear threat to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in an interview to mark the Jewish New Year holiday.

Sharon reiterated an earlier threat to expel Arafat from the Palestinian territories at a “convenient” time. But he went on to stress that he saw no difference between Arafat and Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was assassinated by Israel in March, and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, who was killed the following month.

Sharon’s comments show that he intended “to kill President Arafat and to push the Palestinian people toward chaos,” Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat said.