Now in 2012 AlJazeera is claiming “exclusive investigation” concludes that Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death.
But even before he was officially dead in November 2004 I wrote and spoke about how the Israelis had done a historic “Stealth Assassination”. Moreover top Palestinians in the PA were complicitous — if not in the assassination itself definitely in the well-orchestrated coverup, the super fast burial, and the insistence that there be no autopsy.
Why is this coming out now? The likelihood is that Mahmoud Abbas and others in the PA who took over with Israeli help from Arafat now fear the Israelis are looking for ways to get rid of them as well. Abbas is trying to protect himself from a similar fate!
Flashbacks to Arafat’s Assassination in 2004 and to what I said then and what we published at MiddleEast.Org then are now at MiddleEast.Org. At the top is my Radio Interview on 11 Nov 2004 even as furious preparations for Arafat’s burial were being super-rushed so no autopsy or investigation would be done then when it could have mattered.
Mark Bruzonsky 