March 21, 2004

BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES:

Helicopters fire missiles at car of Hamas spiritual leader in Gaza (The Associated Press, 3/22/04)

Israel Air Force helicopters fired missiles at Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin as he left a mosque near his house at daybreak Monday, residents said, and Hamas officials and witnesses said he was killed.

Witnesses said Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at Yassin and two bodyguards as they left the mosque, killing them instantly. Hamas officials confirmed that he had been killed. Four people were killed and 12 wounded in the attack, witnesses said.

Yussef Haddad, 35, a taxi driver, said he saw the missiles hit and kill Yassin and the bodyguards. "Their bodies were shattered," he said.


Why not just do Arafat too and then pull out completely?

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 21, 2004 11:27 PM
Comments

Praise the Lord and pass the Hellfires...

Posted by: jsmith at March 21, 2004 11:38 PM

The trash is being taken out. Arafat's turn may come after hamas "reprisals" for the application of HE disinfectant to the now dead (read thoroughly disinfected) "sheik."

Let's take up a collection to pay Webster's to re-define "sheik" as "man who takes unnamable part of camel's anatomy into his mouth..."

Posted by: M. Murcek at March 22, 2004 12:14 AM

Well I'll be darned. They finally did it. Good for them, the world is a better place. But if I lived in Israel I wouldn't leave my house for the next week or so...

Posted by: brian at March 22, 2004 3:06 AM

Seems a bit pointless.

All the assassination's going to do is start off a whole new wave of suicide bombings.

Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at March 22, 2004 5:01 AM

Yes, if Sharon had just let him alone, the Palestinians would have continued to coexist peacefully with Israel.

Posted by: TCB at March 22, 2004 6:20 AM

A fine time to start a new round of negotations with Arafat.

Posted by: Mike Earl at March 22, 2004 11:00 AM
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