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...again, Arafat need not wonder about their being bugged--Israeli agents have been listening in for years. Israeli intelligence officials tell TIME they have had access to almost every phone call, fax or e-mail that has gone out of Arafat's West Bank headquarters, located in a military compound called the Muqata'a in Ramallah, where he has been a virtual prisoner since December. They also claim to have human intelligence, "moles," working the inside...
...Israelis did get their hands on some interesting papers. Soldiers from the elite Egoz Battalion located Arafat's personal files when they invaded the compound. Those documents are being analyzed by the Shin Bet domestic security service. "Now we will be able to add to what we knew about Arafat and his direct ties to terror using what we'll find in the files," says a senior Israeli security official. --By Bill Saporito. Reported by Matt Rees/Jerusalem
...fair to assume that there are places Yasser Arafat would rather be than imprisoned in his own compound with Israeli tank commanders as wardens. But it's not by mistake that he wound up there. Even if Arafat didn't anticipate exactly how the situation would unfold, this is a war he wanted...
...Should the raiding party burst into the compound and risk a shoot-out, or surround the place and wait for the suspects to surrender? Hussain couldn't decide. In the end, his men did both. At 3 a.m., more than 100 police crept up to Shabaz Cottage. In case the suspects escaped, Hussain also mounted 40 police checkpoints on all the main roads in Faisalabad; each had Zubaydah's photo...
...laid siege for four days, peppering the 1,500-year-old building with bullets and, according to those trapped inside, blowing off the rear door. Elsewhere Israeli forces rolled into the West Bank towns of Hebron, Nablus and Jenin and continued to confine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his compound in Ramallah. As the fighting worsened President George W. Bush, the United Nations and European Union leaders called on Israel to end its retaliation for a suicide attack that killed 26 people at a Passover celebration a week earlier. Bush continued his criticism of Arafat for not reining in "terrorist...