A-6753 150 ml Tubes 2
Q-442 250 ml Beakers 5
W-67 Petri dishes 12
X-35 Underpants (soiled) 1
W-665 Bunsen Burner 3kafziel: That this is the case should be a surprise to nobody.It's possible to die from natural causes, even at his youthful age.
facetious: This thread's already a disaster. Who said anything about Russia? And why would there need to be "good timing" for the assassination of a figure reviled by entire nations? I guess the conclusion is that he was exposed to polonium accidentally? Sheesh, people.Russia was the source of the only other famous polonium assassination, linked above. That's why Russian involvement is being discussed, and it does not make this thread a "disaster"; people are asking some well-reasoned and thoughtful questions, considering all possibilities.
Arafat was buried in a stone, rather than wooden coffin, and Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat said that Arafat would be reburied in East Jerusalem following the establishment of a Palestinian state. After Sheikh Taissir Tamimi discovered that Arafat was buried improperly and in a coffin—which is not in accordance with Islamic law—Arafat was reburied on the morning of 13 November at around 3:00 am.I wonder who was in charge of the original funeral arrangements?
Litvinenko was not admitted to London's University College Hospital until 17 November. His symptoms, reported to include hair loss, dehydration, vomiting and a very low white blood cell count, are consistent with poisoning by a radioactive material.Now, I am not a doctor, and haven't seen Arafat's chart but I would think that either:
Not, as I say, that this is likely to have an consequence or change anyone's opinions of any of the actors involved.No kidding.
posted by Artw
The important question is when is Israel going to demand an apology from Obama for this.posted by rosswald at 1:52 PM on July 3, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw
Dr Dracator: Yeah all of your calculations are correct. Never mind that the idea that he poisoned himself by smoking is idiotic, and no one suggested it. Taking the minute amount of polonium existing today and decaying backwards by twenty half-lives to reach an astronomical amount is clearly the correct way to think about this, so don't let me spoil your fun - you obviously do Po-210 analyses every day and know what you are talking about.Do you need a hug? Because you sound like you need a hug.
that clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not.AL-Jazeera described this as
A nine-month investigation suggests that the late Palestinian leader may have been poisoned with polonium.But the heading for this FPP is
Yasser Arafat's sudden illness and death in 2004 were a result of polonium poisoning, according to recent findings by the University Centre for Legal Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland.It's like a game of broken telephones, with the message getting more alarmist at each remove.
At least two people connected with Israel’s nuclear program also reportedly died after exposure to the element, according to the limited literature on the subject.Does anyone else know anything re: this claim?
British citizens who came into contact with former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are not advised to get too close to Michael Karpin's recent book, "The bomb in the basement: How Israel went nuclear and what that means for the world" (Simon and Schuster). On the other hand, the book is recommended to Israeli citizens troubled by the government's nuclear ambiguity and the danger of a radioactive leak. Karpin reveals in the book that polonium 210, the radioactive substance used to poison Litvinenko, killed several Israeli scientists a few decades ago. The Weizmann Institute scientists were exposed to the dangerous substance, which was found at a number of London sites the late spy had visited, as well as in three British Airways planes that flew the Moscow-London route.
According to the book, in 1957 a leak was discovered at a Weizmann Institute laboratory operated by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Traces of polonium 210 were found on the hands of Prof. Dror Sadeh, a physicist who researched radioactive materials, as well as on various objects in the professor's home. The AEC handled the accident with deep secrecy. After a short investigation, whose results were not presented to even the workers, the lab was hermetically sealed for several months.
A month after the lab closed, a physics student died of leukemia. A few years later, Prof. Yehuda Wolfson, Sadeh's direct supervisor, also died, and Prof. Amos de Shalit, the department's director, died of cancer in 1969 at age 43.
When the leak was discovered, Sadeh was terribly anxious, but tests indicated he was well. But according to Karpin's book, the tests did not include his bone marrow. Sadeh and his wife hid the facts from their family and friends until he died prematurely. The cause of death was cancer.
The Israeli authorities did not admit that the leak and the deaths were connected, but people close to Sadeh confirmed that the state took responsibility for the accident and compensated his family.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The investigation into late President Yasser Arafat's death is ongoing, director of the committee responsible for the inquiry said Sunday[....] "We haven't initiated the investigation based on the hypothesis that Arafat was killed by poison, but we agreed to begin an investigation searching directly for the killer regardless of the medical reports which will eventually show the method of killing and name of the toxin," al-Tirawi told Ma'an.
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