An Israeli soldier is under arrest on suspicion of threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The conscript was taken into custody Wednesday night after comrades serving with him at a checkpoint outside the Gaza Strip reported that he had inquired how to get to Sharon’s nearby desert ranch.
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