(CNN) -- The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday she believes he was killed. "I'm convinced it was a political murder, a political assassination," Suha Arafat told CNN in a telephone interview from Doha, the capital of Qatar.
"They wanted to get rid of him," she said, without saying who "they" are.
"I'm not pointing fingers, but this polonium came from a nuclear reactor, and the next step is to identify its source."
Her comments came a day after Swiss scientists reported that levels of polonium-210 measured in the personal effects and body tissues of her husband "moderately" support a proposition that he died of polonium poisoning.
The findings released by the University Center of Legal Medicine of Lausanne -- first reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera -- do not address how Arafat, who died in 2004 at age 75, might have been poisoned or who might have done it.
The scientists were scheduled to hold a news conference later Thursday.
Their report comes a year after Arafat's widow, suspecting he was poisoned, had the body exhumed for tests after the radioactive isotope polonium-210 was found on some of his personal belongings in 2012.
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