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| Yasser Arafat's grave sealed off before planned exhumation | Yasser Arafat's grave sealed off before planned exhumation |
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| West Bank workers have blocked access to Yasser Arafat's grave site before the exhumation of his body this month. | West Bank workers have blocked access to Yasser Arafat's grave site before the exhumation of his body this month. |
| The location of the Palestinian leader's remains has been circled with tarpaulin and roads leading to the mausoleum have been closed. | The location of the Palestinian leader's remains has been circled with tarpaulin and roads leading to the mausoleum have been closed. |
| Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinian Authority had insisted on privacy and did not want the exhumation of its former leader to be observed by the media and others. | Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinian Authority had insisted on privacy and did not want the exhumation of its former leader to be observed by the media and others. |
| Swiss, French and Russian experts will exhume Arafat's body to try to solve some of the mystery surrounding his death. A Swiss lab recently discovered traces of a deadly radioactive isotope on clothes said to belong to the Palestinian leader, reviving allegations that he had been poisoned, perhaps by Israeli agents. | Swiss, French and Russian experts will exhume Arafat's body to try to solve some of the mystery surrounding his death. A Swiss lab recently discovered traces of a deadly radioactive isotope on clothes said to belong to the Palestinian leader, reviving allegations that he had been poisoned, perhaps by Israeli agents. |
| Arafat died in a Paris hospital on 11 November 2004. The exhumation of his body is scheduled to take place at the end of this month. | Arafat died in a Paris hospital on 11 November 2004. The exhumation of his body is scheduled to take place at the end of this month. |
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