Hamas leader killed.

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike. See:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...aza_explosions

Yawn...

Guess there's a new "leader" eh?

"Eric Moore" wrote

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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"D. Strang" wrote:

"Eric Moore" wrote

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Yawn...

Guess there's a new "leader" eh?

Well, other than the fact that this guy *founded* Hamas and has led it
for 17 years.

A *huge* blow against the terrorists.

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In article KRt7c.2566$Gg.1171@okepread03,
"D. Strang" wrote:
"Eric Moore" wrote

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Yawn...

Guess there's a new "leader" eh?

Well, other than the fact that this guy *founded* Hamas and has led it
for 17 years.

A *huge* blow against the terrorists.

Hmm...I see lot of people are mistaken about the actual signifance of this
event.

Yassin was a spiritual figurehead of Hamas. He was not an operational
leader. Israeli could have killed him many times over in the past. They
certainly knew all the time where he was and, being a nearly blind man in a
wheelchair, it was not like he was going to do much hiding anyway. Israeli
announced several months in advance that they're going to kill him this
time, and he said, bring it on, and they did.

I am not sure this was a smart move. On one hand, Yassin was a supporter of
terrorism and former active terrorist himself. On the other hand, he had no
touch with operations anymore, and he enjoyed signifant popularity even
amongst those who did not support Hamas or were kinda between. This may
produce severe backlash.

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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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In article KRt7c.2566$Gg.1171@okepread03,
"D. Strang" wrote:
"Eric Moore" wrote

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Yawn...

Guess there's a new "leader" eh?

Well, other than the fact that this guy *founded* Hamas and has led it
for 17 years.

A *huge* blow against the terrorists.

Hmm...I see lot of people are mistaken about the actual signifance of this
event.

Yassin was a spiritual figurehead of Hamas. He was not an operational
leader. Israeli could have killed him many times over in the past. They
certainly knew all the time where he was and, being a nearly blind man in a
wheelchair, it was not like he was going to do much hiding anyway. Israeli
announced several months in advance that they're going to kill him this
time, and he said, bring it on, and they did.

I am not sure this was a smart move. On one hand, Yassin was a supporter of
terrorism and former active terrorist himself. On the other hand, he had no
touch with operations anymore, and he enjoyed signifant popularity even
amongst those who did not support Hamas or were kinda between. This may
produce severe backlash.



Exactly Israel now is moving out of the region and they decided that
they want him out before they move out.


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"Yama" wrote:

Hmm...I see lot of people are mistaken about the actual signifance of this
event.

Yassin was a spiritual figurehead of Hamas. He was not an operational
leader.

He was *certainly* an operational leader. Broad strategy for sure, and
he was the man behind most of the suicide bombers over the last couple
of decades.

Half-blind or not, he was an important man in Hamas operations, not just
a "spiritual figurehead" (which makes him sound like something other
than a murdering *******, so don't bother trying to use that phrase or
anything similar).

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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Yama" wrote:
Hmm...I see lot of people are mistaken about the actual signifance of
this
event.

Yassin was a spiritual figurehead of Hamas. He was not an operational
leader.

He was *certainly* an operational leader. Broad strategy for sure, and
he was the man behind most of the suicide bombers over the last couple
of decades.

Not really. He was in Israeli prison until 1997 where from he could hardly
plan any operations. After that he has spent considerable time in house
arrest placed by Palestinian authorities.

If Israeli really thought he was anything more than a figurehead, they would
have killed him years ago.

Half-blind or not, he was an important man in Hamas operations, not just
a "spiritual figurehead" (which makes him sound like something other
than a murdering *******, so don't bother trying to use that phrase or
anything similar).

He certainly was a supporter of suicide bombings. That said, it seems that
many Western countries are more or less condemning this move - including UK.
BBC: UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned the Israeli missile
attack on Ahmed Yassin as "unlawful".

"Eric Moore" wrote in message
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The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike. See:


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../ap/20040322/a
p_on_re_mi_ea/gaza_explosions

2 observations.

1. The Israelis seem to have an absolute gift for picking off important
players.
2. They have solid titanium testicles considering the backlash this
might bring.

I guess they figure they have nothing much to lose. They might be
right.

The CO

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"The CO" wrote:

2 observations.

1. The Israelis seem to have an absolute gift for picking off
important players.
2. They have solid titanium testicles considering
the backlash this might bring.

What backlash? More suicide bombers? They just killed the guy who's
been sending them in every day for the last several years. The
Palestinians have been looking to this guy as an example of defiance in
the face of Israel, and just found out that he was very, very mortal.

I guess they figure they have nothing much to lose. They might be
right.

Well, they lost one of the worst people on the face of the planet...

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"The CO" wrote:

2 observations.

1. The Israelis seem to have an absolute gift for picking off
important players.
2. They have solid titanium testicles considering
the backlash this might bring.

What backlash? More suicide bombers? They just killed the guy who's
been sending them in every day for the last several years. The
Palestinians have been looking to this guy as an example of defiance
in
the face of Israel, and just found out that he was very, very mortal.

No real disagreement, I concur that half blind and wheelchair bound or
not,
he was well worth removing. However it may increase the level of
attacks and
inspire them to do something bigger. OTOH, if they keep nobbling the
top level
like this they might get less capable leadership to deal with.

I guess they figure they have nothing much to lose. They might be
right.

Well, they lost one of the worst people on the face of the planet...

No argument with that either. I still essentially think they have
nothing to lose.

The CO