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Arab League to form panel to probe Arafat's death
Wednesday July 18, 2012 08:51:39 AM,
IANS
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Cairo: The Arab
League (AL) Tuesday decided to set up an independent committee to
probe the death of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Arafat died at a military hospital near Paris Nov 11, 2004, three
weeks after he was airlifted from his West Bank headquarters,
where he spent two years under an Israeli siege.
The committee will work with the Palestinian side and Arab and
international bodies to find out the details behind Arafat's
death, reported Xinhua, citing a statement issued after a meeting
of the pan-Arab body's permanent delegates.
The AL urged Palestinian investigators to provide all information
available and other countries, especially France, to support the
committee's work.
The committee's report will be completed within weeks and will
then be referred to the next ministerial meeting of the AL. It
will be part of the AL's efforts to ask the UN to form a committee
to probe Arafat's death, according to AL chief Nabil al-Arabi.
Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor, has ordered an investigation
after Al-Jazeera recently aired an investigative report concluding
that Arafat was poisoned by radioactive polonium. The Palestinian
leadership said it was ready to exhume Arafat's remains for the
investigation.
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