Confidential medical report on PA leader’s death.

An analysis of the confidential medical report on Yasser Arafat’s death reveals three main possibilities as to the cause: poisoning, AIDS, or an infection.

Israel and foreign doctors who have seen the report say the details do not lead to a conclusive determination on what caused the death.

After Arafat died on November 11 at a military hospital in Paris, copies of the pathology report compiled by the hospital staff - and kept under wraps until now - were handed over to Arafat’s widow, Suha, and senior PA officials. The report’s findings are now being published for the first time in the revised edition of “The Seventh War” by journalists Amos Harel and Avi Isacharoff, to be released next week by Yedioth Ahronoth in Hebrew.

The report does not lift the veil of mystery surrounding Arafat’s death entirely: it lists the immediate cause of death as a massive brain hemorrhage, but adds that “a discussion among a large number of medical experts… shows that it is impossible to pinpoint a cause that will explain the combination of symptoms that led to the death of the patient.”

Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi, Arafat’s personal physician who played no part in the late PA chairman’s medical care during the final weeks of his life, said that he knows that the French doctors found the AIDS virus in Arafat’s blood. Al-Kurdi refuses to divulge the source of this information, but claims that the virus was put into Arafat’s blood in an effort to blur the traces of poisoning, which was the cause of death.