An aide to the late Yasser Arafat claims the Palestinian leader died from a slow-acting poison. Ahmed Abdel-Rahman said in an interview published Wednesday by the London-based newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi that a poison was injected into Arafat’s ear in September 2003, leading to his death more than a year later.
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