A Palestinian official inside the compound said at 6 a.m. that there had been no gunfire.
People who were near the compound said they heard an explosion before the gunfire began.
Mr. Aburdeineh, who lives in Mr. Arafat's compound, said the Palestinian leader was able to work effectively despite the restrictions.
The Associated Press, citing a bodyguard in the compound, said that Mr. Arafat had vomited at dinner with Mr. Qurei.
"Money that's gone can't compound," said Mr. Rowe, the hedge fund manager on the Texas Pension Review Board.
Larry Dougherty, a 47-year-old lawyer who lives opposite the compound, said Jeter was a quiet neighbor.
Two Abbottabad residents who live near the compound said the people who lived in the house were Pashtuns from the Swat Valley.
Richard A. Vargas, the informal "mayor" of the Department of Army compound, said it had been scheduled to close this year.
But a broad courtyard had been cleared of the burned-out cars and rubble that people in the compound said had filled it only days before.
Palestinians inside the compound said the Israeli force demolished a dozen trailers the Palestinians had set up on the ruins of buildings destroyed in earlier raids.
"All the refugees are in this compound," said a witness before the attack, who was also inside but asked not to be named.
