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Sheik Ahmed Yassin couldn't have been too astonished in the event he happened to look up in time to register Israeli helicopters firing rockets deadsure down at him. Israel had publicly labeled this terrorist boss a target and had tried to kill him once already. Better dig yourself a deep hole and stay there, Israel had warned Yassin just weeks ago. He didn't, and a supposed spiritual leader who had piously inspired young fanatics to strap bombs to their bellies and go gloriously forth was dispatched to his own rewards. Assassination is never pretty, but it can be necessary when...

Israel: Hamas Today, Arafat Tomorrow Arafat and Yassin: Roadblocks to Peace, Paths to Terrorism By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyJerusalem----March 23......It was not a happy day in Israel yesterday. When Israelis defend themselves and kill their sworn enemies, we do not dance in the streets or hand out candies in the fashion of Palestinians after Israeli civilians have been murdered. Israel has each and every right to defend herself from those who openly advocate and embrace terrorism as a means to destroying the Jewish nation. No, it was not a happy day, but we all feel a bit more secure...

JERUSALEM - Israel will try to kill the entire leadership of Hamas without waiting for another attack by the militant group, security sources said Tuesday, citing a decision made by Israeli security chiefs following the assassination of Hamas' founder. The killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Monday threatened to escalate three and a half years of Israel-Palestinian fighting. Fearing revenge attacks, Israel beefed up security throughout the country and at its missions abroad. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians thronged the streets of Gaza City for Yassin's funeral procession Monday, and Hamas threatened punishing revenge attacks against Israel. It also hinted...

<p>Sheik Ahmed Yassin, good riddance. No R.I.P. for this gravestone. The ghosts of hundreds of Jews would tell you that he lived only too long.</p> <p>This is what nearly everyone is thinking this morning, but few want to say so. Speaking ill of the dead is not a Judeo-Christian thing to do, even when we're glad that the old scoundrel is at last with Ol' Scratch.</p>

http://ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~bwlee/midi_h.htm MIDI - HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - 2nd version Well I am the Sheikh Yassin and Hamas is my gangAnd every time Jews died you can bet I sangThey have tried but they'll never get meOn my head I like how this towel fits me Hit me with your best shot! Why don't you hit me with your best shot!Hit me with your best shot! Fire away! Oh how I love that sound when a school bus goes kaboomI'm hearing CNN in my living roomNearly blind, the spiritual leaderI could once out hit Derek Jeter Hit me...

Opposition leader Shimon Peres criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday for ordering the assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin, warning that the move would harm Israel's image abroad. Peres said had he been a member of the cabinet, he would have voted against the assassination and applied any pressure necessary on the prime minister to prevent it from taking place. He said he could have easily had Yassin killed when he was prime minister, and that he was surprised Sharon had the gall to carry it out. "We must look terrible around the world for killing an old...

I am a junkie of military history, and I have probably read more books by John Keegan than any other freeper. When I first heard of Yassin's assassination yesterday, I was happy and excited. But upon further reading and reflection on the issue, I am now worried and concerned about the consequences for Israel and America. Let us debate the facts from a military and strategic perspective, rather than from our raw emotions. Sheikh Yassin has not been in control of Hamas for more than a decade. During much of that time, he was in Israeli prisons, but the command...

Israel used Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's own words supporting terror and the destruction of Israel as ammunition in the public relations battle that emerged following his assassination Monday. The Foreign Ministry provided news outlets with tapes of Yassin's past statements, as well as data on the number of attacks Hamas has been involved in since the beginning of the violence. Advertisement According to these figures, since September 2000 Hamas has perpetrated 425 terrorist attacks of various kinds, in which 377 Israelis were murdered and 2,076 civilians and soldiers were wounded. One ministry official said that the camera lenses of the world's...

Ahmed Yassin was born in the village of Jorat Askalan, near Ashkelon, in 1936 and was uprooted to Gaza with his family in 1948. The man Israeli officials dubbed "the Palestinian Osama bin Laden" joined the Muslim Brotherhood while studying at Cairo's Al-Azhar University. In his early twenties, Yassin began speaking out against plans to impose international supervision of the Gaza Strip. His fierce speeches led Egyptian authorities to incarcerate him for a month in 1965. Advertisement After the Six Day War, Yassin delivered speeches calling on Arabs and Muslims to resist Israel's occupation. He also assisted the families of...

A STATEMENT published on an Islamist website today purporting to be from al-Qaeda urged retaliation against the US and its allies for Israel's killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. "Sheikh Yassin's blood will not have been shed in vain - we call on all the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades to avenge the sheikh of the Palestinian resistance by striking the tyrant of the century America and its allies," said the statement carried by the www.al-ansar.biz website. The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades take their name from an al-Qaeda leader killed in Washington's 2001 onslaught in Afghanistan and is a...

Israel killed Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin in a helicopter missile strike outside a Gaza City mosque Monday, prompting threats of unprecedented revenge by Palestinian militants against Israel and the United States. Yassin was the most prominent Palestinian leader killed by Israel in more than three years of fighting, and his assassination was seen as a major escalation. More than 200,000 Palestinians, some carrying billowing green Hamas flags, flooded the streets for the funeral procession, the largest gathering in Gaza City in recent memory. Thousands also took to the streets in the West Bank. Mourners jostled to touch Yassin's flag-draped coffin,...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemned Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Monday and said it would do nothing to help Middle East peace efforts. "I do condemn the targeted assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin and the others who died with him," Annan said as he arrived at United Nations headquarters in New York. "Such actions are not only contrary to international law but they do not do anything to help the search for a peaceful solution," he told reporters. The United Nations is a member of the "quartet" of Middle East advisers along...

Israel has killed Sheik Yasin!

Turn the Sheik -- into a prisoner Top Israeli officials have signaled anew that they are again targeting the leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, for assassination. They shouldn't. SHEIK HAPPENS: Spiritual leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas Sheik Ahmed Yassin answers questions from reporters in his home in Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004. Top Israeli officials have signaled anew that they are again targeting the leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, for assassination. They shouldn't. It is not that Yassin does not deserve to die. He has without an ounce of shame sent suicide bombers to attack...

Senior security officials on Thursday said that that the security establishment is considering targeting senior Hamas officials, in light of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's approval of the suicide bombing at the Erez crossing on Wednesday, in which four Israelis were killed. Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim said Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin topped the list of those the military is stalking. "Sheik Yassin is marked for death, and he should hide himself deep underground where he won't know the difference between day and night. And we will find him in the tunnels, and we will eliminate him," Boim...

Hamas spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, personally authorized the use of the female suicide bomber who attacked the Erez terminal crossing Wednesday, killing four Israelis. According to Channel 2, Reem Salah al-Rayashi, 21, the mother of two small children, approached Hamas several times with the request to be a suicide bomber. "She practically begged," an Arab affairs reporter told Channel 2. The Hamas leadership repeatedly spurned her requests, until Yassin himself intervened. Hamas has previously resisted the use of female suicide bombings on ideological grounds. However, when Hamas operatives brought a plan to bomb the Erez crossing into the joint...

KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - US forces have arrested Arshad Yassin, a brother-in-law of Saddam Hussein who was also his personal helicopter pilot and a senior figure in his close protection force until the early 1990s, a high ranking Iraqi police officer said. Yassin, who held the rank of airforce lieutenant general, and another officer of the protection force of the former president, Major Radman Ali Al-Huraimus were arrested Wednesday, in a village located 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, the officer said. He said a US force was airlifted to the village and stormed...

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has ruled out an immediate suspension of attacks on Israeli targets. The group's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, said it was prepared to have a dialogue with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei. But he said a truce had failed in the past because Israel did not want peace or security for the Palestinians. Sheikh Yassin was responding to a call by Mr Qurei for Palestinian militant groups to end acts of violence. He and other Hamas leaders were addressing several hundred followers who had gathered after Friday prayers at a rally in Gaza City....

Yassin Says No to Another ”Hudna” 22:49 Oct 30, '03 / 4 Cheshvan 5764 (IsraelNN.com) Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin announced from PA-controlled Gaza today that there is no room for discussing another ”hudna” -- a declaration of ceasefire, “as long as Israel continues its aggressions”. In recent statements made by Yassin and other terrorist leaders, the terror organization rejected any calls of a cessation of attacks against Israel.

Oct. 28, 2003 Hamas accepts Qurei invitation to ceasefire meeting By LAMIA LAHOUD Palestinian official said Tuesday that Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei asked Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other senior officials for a meeting to discuss a ceasefire and said Yassin had accepted the invitation. A Palestinian legislator predicted that not much would come out of these talks, since Hamas was making a ceasefire once again dependent on Israeli promises to end military incursions and targeted killings of Hamas leaders and militants. Israel, he said would not agree to these terms. He said Hamas has agreed to the talks since...

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Sep. 8, 2003 Annan condemns Israel's attack on Yassin U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemned Israel's attempt to kill the spiritual leader of Hamas, accusing the state of using excessive force and violating international humanitarian law, the U.N. spokesman said Monday. Israel dropped a 250-kilogram (550-pound) bomb on a Gaza City apartment Saturday, lightly wounding Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who is a paraplegic, and 15 bystanders. Israeli troops then blew up the apartment building. On Sunday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned that Hamas leaders are "marked for death" and won't have a moment's rest. Not only are extra-judicial killings a violation of...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel ordered a full closure of the West Bank and Gaza, forbidding any Palestinians from entering Israel, after the spiritual leader of Hamas threatened to continue the group's jihad against the Jewish state. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's threat followed Israel's failed attempt on his life Saturday in Gaza. He narrowly escaped with a minor injury to his hand, after an Israeli missile struck the building where he and other Hamas leaders were meeting. "Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs," said Yassin, who surfaced in a Gaza City...

Sun Sep 7, 3:23 AM ET The spiritual guide of the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (C) is wheeled along by bodyguards during the funeral of assassinated senior Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab, in Gaza City. Yassin was "slightly hurt" in an Israeli air raid in Gaza City.(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)

Sharon says Hamas leaders are marked for death; Palestinians search for new prime minister KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer Sunday, September 7, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (09-07) 01:28 PDT JERUSALEM (AP) -- Hamas leaders are "marked for death" and won't have a moment's rest, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Sunday, after Israel failed in an attempt to kill the top Hamas echelon with a 550-pound bomb dropped on a Gaza City apartment. Hamas threatened unprecedented revenge, saying Israel had "opened the gates of hell" with the attack on its revered founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who escaped with a minor injury. Israel declared...

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz instructed the Israel Defense Forces to use every means at its disposal against terror and against Hamas. Environment Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Khaled Mashal are not immune from Israeli attacks. The government convened Thursday morning to discuss the security situation following Wednesday's suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem, in which sixteen Israelis were killed and more than 100 people were wounded. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet that Israel would continue to hunt down the terrorists because the Palestinian Authority was doing nothing against them. Despite the continued terror attacks,...

Hamas attacks possible in U.S. NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence agencies have warned that Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, might attack U.S. citizens and facilities if a war with Iraq begins, according to a report from Time magazine. In an article in its March 24 edition, the magazine says: "CIA and FBI officials concur that Hamas -- which has so far limited its attacks to Israeli targets -- is most likely to attempt violence on U.S. bases or in American gathering places in Israel and the Middle East." It quotes an unidentified U.S. official as saying, "you...

BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops raiding a Gaza refugee camp arrested a Hamas founder Monday, targeting the political leadership of the Islamic militant group for the first time in 29 months of fighting. Eight Palestinians, among them a pregnant woman, were killed in clashes in the camp. Troops also blew up four homes in the Bureij camp, including that of Hamas co-founder Mohammed Taha, 65, who was wounded in clashes with soldiers, the army said. Several adjacent houses and a mosque were damaged by the blasts. Taha's five sons -- all senior Hamas activists --...

Incursion of Israeli tanks in Gaza close to the residence of sheik Yassine Thursday November 14, 2002 - 0h55 GMT GAZA, Nov. 14 (AFRP) - a score of Israeli tanks penetrated in the night of Wednesday to Thursday inside the town of Gaza and were with two hundred meters of the house of the founder of the Islamic movement Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassine, indicated witnesses. Three Palestinian police officers at least were wounded by the shootings of the tanks and the three helicopters which take part in this incursion. The seat of the Palestinian television, which is in the...

Below is the full text of the proposed agreement between Hamas and the Palestine National Authority as it was published in the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly on September 20, 1995. According to Al-Ahram, a copy of the agreement was presented last month to the spiritual leader of the Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, inside his jail in Israel. An informed Palestinian source told Al Ahram Weekly that Sheikh Yassin has accepted the document in principle, expressing, however, the demand that more "religious fragrance" be added. Please note that paragraph (3) of the agreement respects "the commitments of the Palestinian Liberation Organization...

The founder of Hamas said Monday it would consider halting suicide attacks on Israelis if Israel withdrew from West Bank cities and took other measures. "Basically what I would say to the occupation army is to leave ... the Palestinian cities in all the West Bank that were occupied ...," Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told reporters in the Gaza Strip. "And stop your aggression, demolishing homes. Release prisoners and stop assassinations. Once the occupation and all those measures against our people stop, we are ready to totally study stopping martyrdom operations, in a positive way." Yassin did not...