[Blitzer:] Delicate work is now underway in the West Bank to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat. French authorities have launched a murder investigation into his death after finding a radioactive substance on some of his personal things. CNN's senior international correspondent Sara Sidner is in Ramallah.
[Sara Sidner, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Security forces are keeping us as far away as possible from the Palestinian presidential compound, where the body of deceased PLO leader Yasser Arafat has been laid to rest. Now you can see below and behind me a huge blue tarpaulin that is surrounding his mausoleum. What we're hearing from a source is the glass that usually surrounds that mausoleum has now been taken down and workers are working on removing the marble tombstone. This is all happening because the family of Yasser Arafat believes he was murdered after polonium 210, the highly radioactive element, was found on some of his belongings, according to a Swiss lab. Now his body is supposed to be exhumed this month and there is a lot of work to be done. A source says that the exhumation could take at least two weeks and probably more because some of the work will be done by hand. When the work of removing the dirt in his grave is done, we're expecting to see scientists from France, Switzerland, and Russia here to watch that process and to take tests. This is all happening just as everyone commemorates the advisory, the eight-year anniversary of Arafat's death. His family very upset and there has always been suspicion that Arafat was murdered when he died in a French hospital in 2004. Sara Sidner, CNN, Ramallah.