Israeli police arrested a senior Palestinian official’s two bodyguards, alleging they had attacked an Israeli security official accompanying the British foreign minister. Police said the two bodyguards to Faisal Husseini, the Palestinian Authority’s highest-ranking official in Jerusalem, blocked an Israeli secret service agent from accompanying Foreign Secretary Robin Cook into a room at the American Colony Hotel on Tuesday.
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