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Israel botched an assassination attempt on a Hamas leader . According to various reports, Israel 1) infuriated Jordan by infiltrating that country and staging the attack there; 2) infuriated Canada and other countries by forging Canadian passports for the Israeli agents; 3) bungled the attack, leading to the agents' arrest; 4) was forced to release the founder of Hamas (who was serving a life sentence) and other Hamas prisoners from Israeli jails and to supply an antidote for the lethal nerve toxin used in the attack, in order to assuage Jordan's anger; and 5) aroused such fury at Israel and sympathy for Hamas that Yasser Arafat reportedly will have to release the Hamas prisoners he has rounded up and reopen Hamas institutions.
The latest escalation: Palestinian officials accused Israel of preparing commando attacks on Palestinian territory--including an assassination attempt on Yasser Arafat, according to a Palestinian mayor--and urged the United States to stop Israel's blockade of Bethlehem and its destruction of Palestinian houses.
John F. Kennedy's assassination, although the service's greatest failure, nonetheless brought it renewed acclaim for its agents' heroics.
For 62 years the Secret Service ably sheltered the president from danger, despite assassination attempts on Franklin Roosevelt (as president-elect, in 1933) and Harry Truman (in 1950).
1 contender is the JFK assassination.