What Killed Yasir Arafat

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 19, 2012

Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat died mysteriously in 2004. A recent investigation by Al-Jazeera, which included testing of Arafat’s personal effects, suggests that he might have been poisoned by polonium. Clayton Swisher, the Al-Jazeera English journalist who carried out network’s investigation of Arafat’s death, talks about the investigation.

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