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As spiritual leader of the terror group Hamas, he rose to challenge Yasser Arafat as the figurehead of Palestinian resistance to Israel When, in October 1997, the halfblind, almost wholly paralysed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who has been killed in an Israeli air strike at the age of around 67, arrived in Gaza, after being released from an Israeli jail in exchange for Mossad agents caught redhanded trying to assassinate a colleague in Jordan, one Arab commentator likened him to Nelson Mandela. The comparison must have made Yasser Arafat seethe inwardly, even as he heaped homage on the returning hero. In...

Follow the link for about 40 pics. This one is particularly good - yes, the IDF did get his sons too (a three-for?) GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - MARCH 22: EDITOR'S NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT A Palestinian hospital worker shows the bodies of two of Hamas founder Shekh Ahmad Yassin sons Mohammad (below) Abdel Ghani (C) and a body guard (top), in the morgue in the Al-shifa hospital March 22, 2004 in Gaza city in the Gaza Strip. Yassin and his sons were killed in an Israeli helicopter attack March 22, 2004 after leaving a mosque in the Gaza Strip. (Photo...