Practice makes perfect Ma'ariv reports that the IDF has planned and practiced an operation for exiling Arafat that can be implemented on short notice. The babywipe terrorist would be bundled into a helicopter and flown to an uninhabited location in a foreign country somewhere in the Mediterranean region. The drop off location has been identified, and covertly surveyed and visited.

Shots Fired Outside United Nations The AP reports that A man jumped the fence surrounding the U.N. compound Thursday, fired several shots into the air and was quickly tackled by security officers. In a later development that did not reach the wire services, Kofi Annan concluded that the gunman must have been desperate and somehow oppressed by the United Nations. Annan apologized for whatever it was that had been done to the unidentified man and also gave him a permanent seat on the Security Council.