Doctors disagree on death of Arafat

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Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Friday September 9, 2005
The Guardian


The publication of Yasser Arafat's medical records yesterday failed to offer a clear reason for the cause of his death.

The records, compiled by French doctors who treated the Palestinian leader in the final days of his life last November, say he died from a stroke resulting from a bleeding disorder that was caused by an unknown infection.

Many Palestinians believe Arafat's death was unnatural and that he was probably poisoned by the Israelis. There has also been speculation that his illness shared characteristics with Aids.

Doctors who examined the records - which have remained private until now - on behalf of the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz and the New York Times come to contradictory conclusions.

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