Arafat's widow wants body exhumed

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat gives an interview to Reuters at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in this file photo taken December 5, 2001. The Palestinian Authority agreed on July 4, 2012, to the exhumation of Arafat's body after new allegations that he was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium-210 in 2004. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause/Files (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY)

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat gives an interview to Reuters at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in this file photo taken December 5, 2001. The Palestinian Authority agreed on July 4, 2012, to the exhumation of Arafat's body after new allegations that he was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium-210 in 2004. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause/Files (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY)

Published Jul 5, 2012

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The widow of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat wants his body exhumed.

This, after tests reportedly found Polonium 210, a radioactive substance, on some of the last clothes that Arafat wore.

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