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Arafat’s final effects
A collection of the items Al Jazeera analysed while studying what killed Yasser Arafat.
Published On 3 Jul 2012
These are the items Yasser Arafat had with him when he died – his glasses, his clothes, even his trademark keffiyeh.
All of them were sent to the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were examined for a range of poisons and heavy metals, everything from arsenic to zinc.