Insight - Old assumptions questioned in Arafat's mysterious death

Presidential guards stand near the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 21, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Yasser Arafat's spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.

More like a prison cell than the living quarters of an Arab leader, a single bed lies along one wall, a small fridge still contains some of his long-expired medicines and his old, khaki uniform, dotted with bright badges, hangs in a narrow wardrobe.