Sharon's stark message to man he wants dead

RAMMING armoured bulldozers through the walls of Yassir Arafat’s Ramallah headquarters, Ariel Sharon yesterday delivered the starkest of messages that he has run out of patience with a man he would like to kill.
The heavy thud of tank shells and machinegun fire merged eerily with a thunderstorm over Judea as Israeli troops moved room by room through the hilltop compound where Mr Arafat sheltered with his senior aides, appealing in vain for the world to come to his aid.

“Where are you?” the veteran of Suez, Black September and Beirut cried to one American envoy. “Don’t you know that this will shake the Middle East?” Even as he spoke the walls of Camp Arafat shook with the force of heavy armour bludgeoning its way into the building as Mr Sharon’s tanks parked themselves on his front drive, crunching the steel front gates like gravel underfoot.