Lunacy reigns supreme, as the new head of Fatah (Arabic for “Conquest”) says he is sure Arafat was poisoned.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Faruq Qaddumi, who succeeded Yasser Arafat as head of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement, reaffirmed his belief that the Palestinian leader had been poisoned.

“He died due to poison. All the treatments and medical examinations have ruled out all the illnesses that you could think of, like leukaemia or the loss of immunity,” he said in the Lebanese capital.

“Why had all the blood platelets continued to disintegrate? There is no other reason,” he told reporters at a news conference with Lebanese foreign minister Mahmoud Hammoud.

Evidence? We spit on your infidel evidence!