Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Arafat, British Gas, Cast Lead, Egypt, energy, energy exploration, gas reserves, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israel, Israeli invasion, Koury, Levantine Corridor, Natural gas, offshore gas production, oil and gas, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Polonium, polonium Francois Bochud, Sabbagh, TIP line
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British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) owned by Lebanon’s Sabbagh and Koury families, were granted oil and gas exploration rights in a 25 year agreement signed in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority.
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Whodunnit.
Al-Jazeera says the tests on his clothes, including his toothbrush and kaffiyeh, were conducted by the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland.
“I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids,” Francois Bochud, the director of the institute, tells Al-Jazeera.
Additional tests, conducted over a three-month period from March until June, concluded that most of that polonium found in samples of body fluids — sweat and urine — on Arafat’s clothes, was “unsupported,” meaning that it did not come from natural sources.
Al-Jazeera says there is little scientific consensus on the symptoms of polonium poisoning, mostly because it is so rare.
Litvinenko suffered severe diarrhea, weight loss and vomiting, as did Arafat, in the days and weeks before he fell ill.
Severe diarrhea and vomiting …. in the days and weeks before he fell ill. Must mean before he died. Ah well. The editor was probably working on a big chimp attack story.
via USA Today: Al-Jazeera: Tests suggest Arafat died of polonium poisoning.
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