Enlisting Data Seized in Raids, Israel Widens an Effort to Implicate Arafat in Terrorism
Israeli officials say the accusations are supported by interrogations of Palestinian officials and documents found in schools, clinics, charities and Palestinian Authority offices. Officials said the documents and other information established that Mr. Arafat and his aides have had a direct hand in the suicide attacks and that a committee headed by Saudi Arabia's interior minister sent payments to families of Palestinians who died in bomb attacks.

Palestinian officials say the documents are forgeries, fabricated by Israel to influence international public opinion. But officials said yesterday that copies had been shared with Jordan and Egypt, neither of which has challenged their authenticity.

The Bush administration is studying some of the material and several officials expressed doubts that it would change the administration's calculations about how to deal with the crisis in the Middle East.

"I don't know how much of this is true, I'm sure some of it is," said one senior American official. "But even if it is true, at the end of the day, Israel cannot choose the Palestinians' leaders and it must deal with the Palestinian Authority."
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