<story><title>Swiss forensic report on Arafat&apos;s death</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-forensic-report-arafat-death-201311671255163780.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Of course Yasser Arafat was killed.  I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone sane ever thought otherwise considering the circumstances...  Same goes for Slobodan Milosevic...  There likely are others, but they don&amp;#x27;t come to mind at the moment.&lt;p&gt;Love the anonymous downvote for saying something unpopular politically, but more than likely factually correct.&lt;p&gt;Dangerous political prisoners&amp;#x2F;personalities dying in mysterious circumstances at opportune times is not coincidence.  The US reign death from above via remote controlled drones and this isn&amp;#x27;t contested, yet thinking that very suspicious deaths at expedient times are likely assassinations is some crazy conspiracy theory...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re being downvoted because you don&amp;#x27;t back your facts up with any source. You&amp;#x27;re not contributing anything to the discussion. It&amp;#x27;s like saying &amp;quot;of course the moon landing is&amp;#x2F;isn&amp;#x27;t a hoax, I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone sane ever thought otherwise considering the circumstances...&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It says nothing. Stating something as a fact doesn&amp;#x27;t make it a fact.&lt;p&gt;For the record I have absolutely no agenda here and I must say I have absolutely no opinion on the subject at hand (nor do I think it belongs on the frontpage of HN, but that&amp;#x27;s an other subject).</text></comment>
<story><title>Swiss forensic report on Arafat&apos;s death</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/killing-arafat/swiss-forensic-report-arafat-death-201311671255163780.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Of course Yasser Arafat was killed.  I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone sane ever thought otherwise considering the circumstances...  Same goes for Slobodan Milosevic...  There likely are others, but they don&amp;#x27;t come to mind at the moment.&lt;p&gt;Love the anonymous downvote for saying something unpopular politically, but more than likely factually correct.&lt;p&gt;Dangerous political prisoners&amp;#x2F;personalities dying in mysterious circumstances at opportune times is not coincidence.  The US reign death from above via remote controlled drones and this isn&amp;#x27;t contested, yet thinking that very suspicious deaths at expedient times are likely assassinations is some crazy conspiracy theory...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>This is crazy thinking. Famous people do typically have access to better medical care, through personal wealth or the goodwill of their supporters, but you seem to think that power&amp;#x2F;celebrity confers immunity from disease and misadventure. It lowers the risk, is all.&lt;p&gt;This does not mean I disagree with the findings of this report, not least because I haven&amp;#x27;t read it yet. It&amp;#x27;s entirely plausible that Arafat could have been murdered...but considering that he was a thorn in Israel&amp;#x27;s side for around &lt;i&gt;40 years&lt;/i&gt;, you&amp;#x27;re in no position to talk about him dying at an opportune time. I&amp;#x27;m sure there were people who wanted to assassinate him over the last several decades. For the last 2 years of his life he was effectively under house arrest by the Israeli army, so why wait 2? Is there something terribly unusual about 75-year old men dying? Hardly. It&amp;#x27;s certainly possible that he was assassinated, but by your logic we should also be investigating the death of counterculture icon Lou Reed, who was a mere 71.&lt;p&gt;Also it&amp;#x27;s rain, not reign.</text></comment>