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| '''Yasser Arafat''' (1929-2004) was the first President of the [[Palestinian Authority]] (PA) from 1996 to his death, Chairman of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (1969-2004) and founded [[Fatah]] in 1956. While a [[Muslim]], he was generally considered motivated more by [[nationalism]] than Islamism. | | '''Yasser Arafat''' (1929–2004) was a Palestinian politician who became Chairman of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] from 1969 to 2004 and President of the [[Palestinian Authority]] from 1994 to 2004. |
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| After founding Fatah, he worked in various places, but was expelled from [[Jordan]] in 1970, and moved the PLO headquarters to [[Lebanon]] between 1971 and 1982. The PLO used [[terrorism]] in a number of operations.
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| During this time, he appeared before the [[United Nations]] in 1974. After the [[1982 Israeli-Lebanon Conflict]], he moved to [[Tunisia]].
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| He moved from Tunisia to [[Gaza]] in 1994, and was a co-recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for the [[Camp David Accords]].
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| In 2004 he officially died from a stroke in a Paris hospital. A controversial Swiss forensic report released in November 2013 indicated a preliminary finding of unexpected high levels of polonium-210, but because of the time elapsed between his death and exhumation analysis, a stronger conclusion could not be reached.<ref>{{cite news|author=Staff writer|date=6 November 2013|title=Yasser Arafat 'may have been poisoned with polonium'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24838061|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=6 November 2013}}</ref> A further report by a French team of scientists has since ruled out polonium-210 as the cause of death, and concluded he died from a generalised infection.<ref>{{cite news|author=Staff writer|date=3 December 2013|title=Yasser Arafat 'was not poisoned' - leaked French report|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25205170|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=4 December 2013}}</ref>
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