英语翻译:巴勒斯坦将对阿拉法特进行开棺验尸
New suspicionsthat Yasser Arafat was murdered, perhaps poisoned by radioactive polonium, prompted the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday to agree to exhumethe body of the iconic leader.radioactive polonium:放射性钋
the Palestinian Authority:巴勒斯坦权力机构
Israel, seen by many Arabs as the prime suspect behind the mysterious illness that killed the 75-year-old Arafat in 2004, sought to distance itself anew from the death of the man who led Palestinians' bid for a state through years of war and peace.
sought to:试图
A Swiss institutewhich examined clothing provided by Arafat's widowSuha for a documentaryby Qatar-based Al Jazeera television said its radiation protection experts had found "surprisingly" high levels of polonium-210, the same substancefound to have killed a former Russian spyin London in 2006.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera television:卡塔尔半岛电视台
But it said symptomsdescribed in the president's medical reports were not consistent with the radioactive agent.
consistent with:与……一致
"I want the world to know the truth about the assassinationof Yasser Arafat," Suha Arafat, 48, told Al Jazeera, without making any direct accusations, but noting that both Israel and the United States saw him as an obstacle to peace.
saw him as an obstacle to peace:视他为影响和平的障碍
Allegationsof foul play - and of Palestinian involvement in it - have long marked factional fighting among Palestinians. The latest revelation coincides with renewed tensions within Arafat's Fatah movement, now headed by his successor President Mahmoud Abbas, and between Fatah and Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip.
factional fighting:派系斗争
Arafat's Fatah movement:阿拉法特的法塔赫运动
the Islamist movement:伊斯兰抵抗运动
the Gaza Strip:加沙地带
Abbas's administration said it would approve Suha Arafat's request to bring her husband's remains out for autopsyfrom a limestone mausoleum built next to his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, without giving a date for such a move.
Abbas's administration:阿巴斯政府
a limestone mausoleum:石灰岩陵墓
"The Authority, as it always has been, is ready to completely cooperate with and clear the way for an investigation into the true causes leading to the martyrdomof the late president," said Nabil Abu Rdeineh, spokesman for Abbas.
cooperate with:与……合作
clear the way for:为……扫除障碍
Saeb Erekat, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), told Reuters the exhumation could take place as soon as "religious and family procedures" were complete.
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO):巴勒斯坦解放组织
"If you ask me, it's a matter of a days, not more than a few days," he said. "Then we will be in contact with the Swiss team or any other team that could come and exhume the body."
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