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UNDERNEWS: nytimes Personal computers sat on the desks, their hard drives ripped out. In another room, the Israeli soldiers had blasted open the safe . . . At the Ministry of Agriculture, the door had been blasted open by an explosion that also took out all the windows, and a neighbor said Israeli soldiers had filled two armored personnel carriers with boxes, presumably containing records. It was the same at the Ministry of Industry. . . . "What they are doing, and what is not being noticed enough, is that they are destroying all the records, all the archives, all the files, of the Palestinian Authority," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Palestinian minister of information. "This is an administrative massacre, and this will lead to chaos."