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Bianca Carrera

INSANE: Yasser and fathi arafat remembered 20 years after their deaths - The Real Truth

Picture of Yasser, right, and Fathi, left, together [Courtesy of Tarek Arafat]

Cairo, Egypt – The reception of the Palestine Hospital was busy as usual in early November, but the mood among the Palestinian staff was clouded by an approaching anniversary.

On November 11, 2004, a thunderbolt announcement on all major networks: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had died in Paris – poisoned with polonium-210, according to an investigation by Al Jazeera and French, Swiss and Russian scientists.

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