Polonium-210: A pretty good way to horribly murder somebody

At the time? Mostly cowering in his compound in Ramallah with Israeli snipers chipping at the paint job outside to remind him of their opinion of him. If it were the Russians, it would mostly be because he had knowledge of past events in the Kremlin from the multiple times he spent thre, knowledge they prefer he take with him to the Lake of Fire. If the Israelis, it would be because he was Yasser Arafat. And while he wasn’t doing much in 2006, one thing he was doing was being Yasser Arafat.

But regardless of the source of the polonium, if he was fed any, he was fed it by someone in his retinue. And the reason for that would again be because he was Yasser Arafat.