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November 13, 2012
4:20 pm

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat blows a kiss as he leaves a Jordanian military helicopter upon arrival in Amman, Jordan, Friday Oct. 29. 2004. The 75-year-old Arafat walked off the helicopter that had ferried him from the West Bank to a small white French hospital plane that had been waiting on the tarmac in Amman before traveling on to Paris for urgent medical treatment (photo credit: AP Photo/Petra)

‘Absolutely no way’ Arafat was poisoned, says top doctor who teaches at Paris hospital where Palestinian leader died

Arafat was tested for radioactive poisoning, and symptoms would have been ‘impossible to miss,’ Roland Masse, a specialist on radioactivity and professor at Percy military hospital, tells Times of Israel

By Anica Pommeray