The following clip is an excerpt from an interview with the commander of the
Palestinian Presidential Guard, Munir Al-Zu'bi, which discussed the death of
Yasser Arafat. The interview aired on Al-Arabiya TV on August 13, 2005.

*Clip # 810 - Commander of Arafat's Presidential Guard Munir Al-Zu'bi:
Arafat May Have Been Poisoned by a Laser Beam, a Handshake, or a Kiss

Al-Zu'bi: If he was poisoned, it was by new and very sophisticated
materials, and not directly. It was not direct poisoning.

Interviewer: You mean, there must have been...

Al-Zu'bi: ...Either by someone who used a very advanced kind of poison and
shook hands with the president, with a poisoned hand, or by someone who
kissed him with some substance (on his lips). This way there are poisons
that are transferred... There are sophisticated poisons that are passed this
way. That is one possibility. Another is by laser beams. When Abu Ammar
would walk here, the Israeli army... we were unprotected. The Beit El
settlement is right over there. The Beit El base... Abu Ammar used to stand
here. ...in addition, there were planes sometimes... AWACS planes...

Interviewer: Yes, but poisoning... Right, but the laser would have hit...
You were with him most of the time...

Al-Zu'bi: No, a laser beam aimed at a person can hit him. I was in Paris
when the president went to the hospital. Something that a French doctor
explained to us stuck in my mind. He said that assuming Abu Ammar had been
killed by poison, the only possibility was poisoning by laser beam, either
by journalists, or a TV camera, or a certain device that transmits a laser
beam. When Abu Ammar would sit in an interview, the camera would be pointed
at him for fifteen minutes to half an hour. If this camera were to transmit
beams it may have caused such a result. He might have been harmed this way.

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