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...wrote Amos Harel. "From the first reports about the assassination of Tul Karm's Raed Karmi, any Israeli or Palestinian alumnus of the past 15 months could come up with an accurate prognosis of what would happen: Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly in the northern sector; a harsh military response by Israel in the territories followed by renewed Palestinian attempts to conduct suicide bombings inside the Green Line (the border that divides Israel from the West Bank...
...Harel's prescient words underscore the fact that the cease-fire proclaimed by Arafat last December, which had been relatively successful, has now been voided on the ground. Even the Israeli military acknowledged at the New Year that there had been a sharp decline in violent incidents since Arafat's televised speech before Christmas. But a week ago the militant Islamist organization Hamas signaled the end of its own undertaking to suspend actions inside Israel, by attacking a military post on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Then came Karni's slaying - Israel insists he was planning terror...
...Arafat's organization officially insisted that it remains committed to the cease-fire, but it was the organization's own rank-and-file members that claimed responsibility for the latest terror attack inside Israel. And the sharp uptick in violence over the past week will further darken prospects for any resumption of dialogue - already grim in light of suspicion over Mr. Arafat following the discovery of an arms shipment bound for the Palestinian territories from Iran...
...assassination of Fatah militant Raed Karmi: "There was no need for a degree in political strategy to make an educated guess yesterday about how this week would go," Harel wrote a day before the Hadera attack. "Revenge by Karmi's Fatah colleagues in the West Bank, and a sharp rise in the number of shooting incidents in the West Bank, particularly in the northern sector. A harsh military response by Israel in the territories followed by renewed Palestinian attempts to conduct suicide bombings inside (Israel)." Harel questions the timing of Karmi's assassination, given the relative lull in violence that...
...Because while Sherron Wadkins certainly seems to have been a conscientious employee with a sharp eye for trouble, whistle-blowing isn't whistle-blowing if only Ken Lay and some Arthur Andersen partners - who probably didn't need the advice and certainly didn't follow it - heard the noise. Blowing the whistle on Enron's creative accounting, however, wasn't Wadkins' job. It was the job of the certified public accountants - the outside auditors - at Arthur Andersen...