My friend Laurence has brought back an old Kofi Annan-Arafat meme, in light of the recent reports regarding Arafat’s possible poisoning.
Meanwhile, this particular passage of a Reuters report is being overlooked:
Darcy Christen, spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, told Reuters on Tuesday it had found “surprisingly” high levels of polonium-210 in Arafat’s belongings.
But he stressed that clinical symptoms described in Arafat’s medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not.
A more likely conclusion: Arafat was having an affair with a male nuclear plant technician.
