Yasser Arafat's remains exhumed

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The body of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was exhumed Tuesday for tests to see if poisoning led to his death in 2004, a well-informed Palestinian source said Tuesday.

Yasser Arafat [file photo]


A military reburial ceremony will be held soon to rebury him.

Members of the Palestinian Presidential Guard moved the coffin from the tomb to a nearby mosque in the Palestinian presidency's Ramallah headquarters. The remains were put on a plastic stretcher at the mosque where the samples will be taken.

Tawfiq Tirawi, head of the Palestinian committee investigating Arafat's death, was present during the digging along with investigators and experts from Switzerland, France and Russia.

The investigation aims to find out if Arafat's 2004 death in a French hospital resulted from poisoning. The Palestinians suspect that Israel had poisoned Arafat when he was besieged in his Ramallah headquarters before falling ill.

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