Arafat died of AIDS

Israelinsider: Hospital concealment strengthens suspicion: Arafat died of AIDS

Arafat's personal doctor calls for autopsy. "I demand an official inquiry and an autopsy ... so the Palestinian people can learn in all transparency what caused the death" of their leader, Dr Ashraf al-Kurdi said on Al-Jazeera television only hours before Arafat was due to be buried.

International Herald Tribune: Secrecy surrounds diagnosis.