"An attack by an Israeli helicopter gunship killed Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin today, blowing him out of his wheelchair as he left a Gaza City mosque after predawn prayers. "The sheik is dead. The sheik is dead," sobbed gunmen and Hamas militants who gathered at the scene. Israel - and the Bush administration - lists Hamas as a terrorist group. Yassin's Hamas was responsible for scores of suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on Israelis. Since the latest wave of violence began in September 2000, 474 people - the majority of them Israelis - have been killed in 112 Palestinian suicide bombings, most of them carried out by Hamas, including 21 at a Tel Aviv nightclub and 29 in a Netanya hotel, and a double suicide attack a week ago at an Israeli port that killed 10 people. Witnesses said today's raid killed three others and injured at least 10, including the two sons of the 68-year-old quadriplegic and nearly blind cleric."
Good fer Israel...MUD