Arafat's body will be dug up to examine cause of death
By Cecile Feuillatre in Ramallah, Palestinian Territories | China Daily | Updated: 2012-11-26 08:03
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A Palestinian security officer stands in front of plastic tarpaulin erected around the mausoleum of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday. The body of Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday to undergo poison tests. Abbas Momani / Agence France-Presse |
One of the Middle East's greatest political mysteries will come a step closer to being solved on Tuesday when scientists exhume iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's remains to see if he was poisoned.
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