RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - An explosion went off Tuesday in the building adjacent to Yasser Arafat's office, according to aides to the Palestinian leader who were inside the compound. <br>
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Nobody was inside the building, which was part of the Palestinian prison at the compound, said Tawfik Tirawi, head of Palestinian intelligence in the West Bank. <br>
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Earlier Tuesday, Palestinians said another explosion damaged the inside of a building within the compound but farther from Arafat's office. That building once was used as sleeping quarters for Palestinian security men. <br>
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``The Israelis have set off internal explosions inside the building beside us,'' Tirawi said. ``This building shared a wall with the president's office. If I'm reading the Israelis well, they want to destroy this wall so that they can easily enter the office.'' <br>
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The Israeli army did not immediately comment.
