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United Press International - August 12, 2007
Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi said he believes the HIV virus was injected into ArafatÆs bloodstream as he lay dying, but the real cause of death was poison, reported the Jordanian news site Amman.
"I would usually be summoned to attend to Arafat immediately, even when all he had was a simple cold," said al-Kurdi, who was Arafat's doctor for 18 years. "But when his medical situation was really deteriorating, they chose not to call me at all."
Al-Kurdi said ArafatÆs wife, Suha, refused to allow him to examine Arafat while he lay dying in late 2005 in a Paris hospital and the doctor was denied access to ArafatÆs body after he died, Haaretz reported Sunday.
Al-Kurdi did not say how he determined what did and did not kill Arafat when he was prevented from seeing him even in death.
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