Qathafi calls investigating Arafat's death

The Libyan leader Muammar al-Qathafi on Friday called for setting up an international investigation committee to investigate the death of the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat who died on November 11, 2004 in a military hospital in Paris.

Qathafi told the Libyan official news agency "after results of analyzing the reason behind the death of the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and making sure that he was poisoned, we demand the formation of an international investigation committee to know the criminals who were behind the killing of Abu Ammar (Yasser Arafat)."

A Palestinian ministerial committee had recently issued a report over the reasons behind Arafat's death. The report was basically based on a report of French doctors and concluded that it was not possible to specify the reason of the death, and expressing the hope this will be possible one day.