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[AlAhram] Suha El Kodwa Arafat ...Suha Arafat for short, the fashionable bottle-blond, formerly Catholic Palestinian expat who ran off and married the elderly PLO Number 1 in a queer sort of patriotism, then lived to regret it...
and Zahwa El Kodwa Arafat, who are French citizens, filed their case with the Strasbourg-based European court in 2017 after French courts dismissed their claimsThe European Court of Human Rights on Thursday dismissed a case brought by the widow and daughter of Yasser Arafat,
..formally Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004). Born and educated in Cairo, in a French hospital. The flamboyant and brutal USSR-trained terrorist failed to destroy Israel in the service of Arab transnational socialism under the guise of Palestinian national liberation, though he was lauded internationally for his efforts. After founding Fatah sometime in the 1950s, Arafat was chairman of the PLO from 1968 until he died, probably of AIDS from unusual interactions with his personal guards, though his people claimed Israel had poisoned him. Whether the child of the wife he took near the end of his life was also his has never been tested, nor the rumour that she inherited his ill-gotten millions, and nobody seems to know what happened to his red binder...
who have claimed the iconic Paleostinian leader's death was the result of poisoning.Arafat died at the Percy military hospital near Gay Paree aged 75 in November 2004 after developing stomach pains while at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Many Paleostinians accuse Israel of poisoning Arafat, a charge flatly denied by the occupation state.
But in 2012 his widow, Suha El Kodwa Arafat, said traces of the radioactive isotope polonium 210 had been found on his clothes, prompting a French lawsuit alleging his murder.
After a series of analyses and witness interviews, a court in Nanterre, west of Gay Paree, dismissed the case, a ruling upheld on appeal.
Lawyers for Arafat's widow said the investigation had been "fundamentally biased" and accused the judges of closing the probe too quickly.
Arafat's wife and daughter turned to the European court in 2017, saying they had been refused their right to a fair hearing, in particular a refusal of their request for an additional expert report on his death.
In a unanimous decision, three judges said that after reviewing the case, "at all stages of the proceedings the applicants, assisted by their lawyers, had been able to exercise their rights effectively".
"Judges did not appear to have reached arbitrary conclusions based on the facts before them and their interpretation of the evidence in the file or the applicable law had not been unreasonable," they added.