The PLO’s “foreign minister” continues spewing insane conspiracy theories: Kadoumi claims US and Israel behind Arafat’s death. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)

PLO Foreign Minister says two countries conspired to kill him, accuses Israel of poisoning him and US of refusing to provide antidote.

Farouk Kadoumi, the veteran hard line Fatah leader, who has served for many years as the PLO’s foreign minister claims Israel and the US conspired to get rid of Arafat.

Speaking to the Arabic language daily Al-Bian he said that after having constantly failed in their attempts to kill Arafat, the two countries conspired to kill him. “The PLO has set up an investigative committee to examine all the evidence pointing to the conspiracy”, he said, admitting “that so far we have not succeeded in discovering how this was done, as no traces of any known toxin have been found”.

I’m sure all of this bizarre hatethink will suddenly cease when they have their own state.

UPDATE at 12/11/04 7:48:37 am:

Arafat’s nephew joins the chorus of lunatics: Nephew: Suspicions About Arafat’s Death.

Al-Kidwa repeated his statement from last month that the French doctors were unable to rule out the possibility that Arafat had been poisoned, although they said they had not found traces of “any poison known to them.”

“Examinations of X-rays and all imaginable tests … are still with the same results, the inability of reaching a clear diagnosis,” Al-Kidwa said in English at a news conference in Ramallah on Saturday.

“That is precisely the reason why suspicions are there, because without a reason you cannot escape the other possibility … that there is unnatural cause for the death,” he said.