Swiss forendic scientists have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in the remains of Yasser Arafat's body, according to Al Jazeera.
The scientists say they are confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned with it, which they said “moderately supports” polonium as the cause of his death.
The BBC says Arafat's official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke, but his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims he was murdered.
A 108-page report by the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, which was obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera, found unnaturally high levels of polonium in Arafat’s ribs and pelvis, and in soil stained with his decaying organs.
