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Topic: Suha Arafat

March 7, 2013
7:44 pm

Palestinians marching with posters of Yasser Arafat, left, and Mahmoud Abbas at a Fatah rally in Ramallah in January 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Release of Arafat poisoning probe delayed

Results still two months away, says Swiss lab testing whether Palestinian leader was killed by radioactive substance

February 10, 2013
3:08 pm

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman at the fore

Former foreign minister comes out swinging, and tells the Israeli press that Yair Lapid isn’t taking his ministry

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 10, 2013
10:25 am

Suha Arafat, wife of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, 2012 (screen capture:Youtube/AlJazeeraEngli

Suha Arafat: I wish I’d never married him

Palestinian leader’s widow denies she has millions in the bank, claims to have turned down dozens of suitors

By Stuart Winer

November 27, 2012
4:26 pm

Blue tarp covers the entrance to Yasser Arafat's mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The remains of the late Palestinian leader were exhumed from his grave on Tuesday so international forensic experts could search for additional clues to his death (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Results on possible Arafat poisoning expected in three months, Palestinian doctor says

Former PA president’s body exhumed, re-buried in Ramallah military ceremony

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Times of Israel staff

November 27, 2012
7:57 am

Journalists stand outside late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's tarp-covered Mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Saturday, Nov 24 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Arafat’s body exhumed, bone samples to be tested for radiation poisoning

Team of experts from Russia, France and Switzerland taking part in procedure; body to be re-buried in a military ceremony

By Times of Israel staff and AP

November 24, 2012
1:19 pm

Yasser Arafat, seen here in September, 2003. At the time Arafat was the head of the Palestinian Authority. (photo credit: Flash90)

Experts to exhume Arafat’s body on Tuesday for testing

Investigators searching for traces of poison; former Palestinian leader to be reburied within hours

By AP and Times of Israel staff

November 23, 2012
5:27 am

Palestinians gather to light candles at the mausoleum of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on November 10, ahead of a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of his death (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arafat’s widow says husband’s exhumation is ‘painful but necessary’

‘If there was a crime, it must be solved,’ says Suha Arafat; French expert has told Times of Israel there is ‘absolutely no way’ PLO chief was poisoned

By Ron Friedman

October 18, 2012
5:34 am

Suha Arafat and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attend a conference in the Gaza Strip on April 5, 1995. (photo credit: Nabil Judah/AP)

Suha Arafat testifies about husband’s death

From the web Yasser Arafat’s widow answers prosecutors’ questions in French probe

October 1, 2012
10:53 pm

Separate French, Swiss teams to probe Arafat’s death

Palestinian leader’s remains to be exhumed at a secret date, tested for poisoning on widow’s behalf

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

September 5, 2012
4:27 am

Yasser Arafat in 2002 (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

French judges coming to Ramallah to exhume Arafat, widow says

From the web Reuters quotes Suha Arafat regarding investigation of poisoning claims

August 30, 2012
12:54 am

French probe deepens confusion over Arafat death

Widow’s apparent reluctance on exhumation adds further intrigue to an already bizarre saga

By Josef Federman

August 29, 2012
1:53 pm

Former Israeli official denies Israel poisoned Arafat

Ex-prime minister Ariel Sharon’s chief of staff says Israel had no interest in harming Palestinian leader

August 29, 2012
8:47 am

President Mahmoud Abbas commemorates Arafat's death, November 2008 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA welcomes French probe into Arafat’s death

Decision comes after traces of poison were found in late leader’s clothing

By Asher Zeiger

August 28, 2012
8:29 pm

France launches criminal probe into Arafat’s death

Controversy was reignited last month with discovery of polonium traces on PLO leader’s clothes

By Philip Podolsky

August 24, 2012
4:10 pm

Suha Arafat in 2004 (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90)

Suha Arafat agrees to have husband’s remains tested for poisoning

Time is ‘of the essence’ as polonium traceability diminishes, says Swiss radiology lab