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...Yasser Arafat doesn't deal delicately with threats to his power. When former Cabinet Minister Nabil Amr called in September for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special forces fire a few warning shots at Amr's home. Leaders of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization got the message. Scheduled to vote on reform a few days after the attack, they swallowed their criticisms instead...
...surprise, then, that past efforts to limit Arafat's prerogatives have failed. Nevertheless, one group of reformers thinks it has found a way to whittle down Arafat's domain. Its secret weapon against the imperious Palestinian leader: a team of American accountants. Shuttling between hotels in the West Bank and offices in California, a handful of professionals hired from Standard & Poor's by the reform-minded new Palestinian Finance Minister, Salam Fayyad, are combing through the many business interests of Arafat's Palestinian Authority, looking to uncover malfeasance. When they are done, according to an agreement Arafat signed in August...
...which the Authority has a stake to be sure they are not associated with any of the Palestinian militias connected to attacks on Israelis. A source close to the investigation tells TIME that a mysterious payment of $10 million has been tracked from a holding company controlled by Arafat's secretive adviser for economic affairs, Mohammed Rashid, to the Finance Ministry and then out again to an unspecified payee--on the orders of Arafat...
...RELATED COVER STORIES Arafat: All Boxed In Apr. 8, 2002 Mideast Covers Bush & the Mideast Mar. 25, 2002 ----------------- Lost in the Rubble? Oct. 23, 2000 ----------------- Man of the Year: Anwar Sadat...
...Even if its current coalition collapses there's little doubt that Sharon's party will return to power. While that may be taken as a sign of stability, the fact that it's matched on the other side by Yasser Arafat's own success - against mounting odds - at clinging to power suggests that it may be the stability of deadlock. Mindful of the extent to which its bona fides in the Arab world are judged through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. has lately been sending State Department emissaries to the region touting what it calls...