Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death
by Mikeb85 on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @08:40PM
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> That's the HN way of saying "eeee it's not fair I'm being downvoted. Someone vote me up". I don't see you complaining about the anonymous up votes.
I could care less about downvotes, but it's nice if people give an explanation, counter-point, etc... Discussion is what brings understanding.
> It certainly seems more likely today than yesterday. But who killed him? It almost certainly wasn't the Israelis or the US - they liked the fact that they could mostly deal with Arafat, and he'd keep more radical Palestinian elements under control.
There's a good post a few lines up that explains it well. Needless to say, the Israeli cause has advanced without Arafat in the picture. It was most definitely in their interest to kill him, and they had the ability (his compound was under siege at the time he fell ill).
> Milosevic.. why would anyone bother killing him? He was going to be locked away for life, and there wasn't anyone he could really blame, so I can't see what the motive would be?
You must not have followed his trial. He said alot of things that were embarrassing to the west, and cast alot of doubt. You're right in that he would have been found guilty, since it's just a show court, but the trial wasn't going the way the prosecutors wanted.
I could care less about downvotes, but it's nice if people give an explanation, counter-point, etc... Discussion is what brings understanding.
> It certainly seems more likely today than yesterday. But who killed him? It almost certainly wasn't the Israelis or the US - they liked the fact that they could mostly deal with Arafat, and he'd keep more radical Palestinian elements under control.
There's a good post a few lines up that explains it well. Needless to say, the Israeli cause has advanced without Arafat in the picture. It was most definitely in their interest to kill him, and they had the ability (his compound was under siege at the time he fell ill).
> Milosevic.. why would anyone bother killing him? He was going to be locked away for life, and there wasn't anyone he could really blame, so I can't see what the motive would be?
You must not have followed his trial. He said alot of things that were embarrassing to the west, and cast alot of doubt. You're right in that he would have been found guilty, since it's just a show court, but the trial wasn't going the way the prosecutors wanted.