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...leader can. Yassin’s death could well bring a new generation of recruits into Hamas’ ranks and motivate its fanatics for years to come. And in the end, what has this man’s death gained Israel? Already Hamas has appointed a new leader, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who may actually be more aggressive than Yassin...
...enough for Hamas. The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist group issued a statement warning that it would retaliate against both Israeli and American targets, marking the first time Hamas had called for violence against the U.S. The statement was denied, Wednesday, by Hamas's new leader in Gaza, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who stressed that his organization remained focused exclusively on attacking Israel. But some Hamas supporters and likeminded elements throughout the Arab world may choose to act on it, anyway...
...Abdel Reid ’06, who is also an Adams House resident, said he was treated especially badly by AT&T’s customer service...
...outrages, rummage through women's wardrobes. Iraqis also resent the roundups that detain civilians, including many innocents, for weeks on end. U.S. troops have fallen into lethal fire fights, like the one in Karbala last Friday, when they clashed with religious groups. And they are alienating poor farmers like Abdel Fattah Naef, who once maintained lush orchards in a town 60 miles north of Baghdad. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division bulldozed his farmland last month following a series of ambush attacks on American convoys traveling past it. "If nine people in this area hated the Americans before this," says...
...Hours after Abbas' resignation, Israeli forces bombed an apartment in Gaza City where Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, was believed to be meeting with the organization's top two military officials. Hamas leaders promised revenge for the strike, which slightly wounded Yassin. "Our operations," said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a top official, "will strike everywhere." --By Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington and Jamil Hamad/Jerusalem