Quoted in Worldnet Daily. Something nasty timed for Sharon's visit to the U.S.

The website's credibility would be enhanced if something actually happens along these lines in the next week or so, although I'm not sure predicting the obvious is that difficult.

Arafat appears to be considering three possible scenarios:



1. A fire or a bloodbath in the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, for which Israel would be blamed.

2. A terrorist attack on the Jericho prison facility under American and British guard in order to free the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary General Ahmad Saadat and financial adviser Fuad Shobaki.

Israel has concentrated troops around Jericho to foreclose this threat.

3. A determined effort to overcome the back-to-back Israeli military counter-terror sweeps of West Bank towns and resume suicide attacks on Israeli buses and crowd centers.



I would bet on #2, if any of this turns out to be true at all. Remember what I have been saying about Shobaki, Arafat's finance guy. He knows where all the bodies are buried, and it ain't Jenin. If he talks, Arafat is dead meat.

Look for the attack, and maybe Shobaki "accidentally" killed, probably with the Palestinians blaming the Israelis for shooting him.

A sneaky end-run: something happening to Sharon's plane.