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15. it's also a specific product of bombarding lead or bismuth with neutrons in a cyclotron. not high-

Wed Jul 4, 2012, 03:52 AM

Jul 2012

tech stuff.

anyone with nuclear facilities -- and that includes universities with cyclotrons -- could make it if they had a mind to.

arafat didn't drink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat#Illness_and_death

the reports of parkinson's originated with israeli intelligence:

http://www.middleeast.org/archives/1998_11_06.htm

and were denied.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22967550.html

here's a clip from 2000: no signs of parkinson's.

a lot of bullshit was reported as truth in arafat's last years.

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Yasser Arafat poisoned with polonium? [View all] HiPointDem Jul 2012 OP

Wow. Interesting. lonestarnot Jul 2012 #1

If true... Scootaloo Jul 2012 #3

He had been in israeli custody for 2 years when he died. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #4

"Custody" isn't quite accurate Scootaloo Jul 2012 #5

Under house arrest. I say that's in custody. HiPointDem Jul 2012 #6

Custody means someone is in the hands of the authorities Scootaloo Jul 2012 #7

Well, sort of true... Scootaloo Jul 2012 #14

Okay Scootaloo Jul 2012 #16

As would I. lonestarnot Jul 2012 #8

I do not and there is never a last word, there is always another. lonestarnot Jul 2012 #12