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Israel's assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas' leader in Gaza, has thrown the Islamic movement's chiefs into a panic. Coming less than a month after Israel eliminated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Rantisi's killing forced underground Gaza's political leaders. It also dangerously deepened fissures between the group's military and political factions. Fighters in its military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, fear that surviving political leaders are less committed than Rantisi was to attacking Israel, say senior Hamas sources in Gaza. Izzedine al-Qassam members want to strike back at Israel soon to avenge Rantisi's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Power Play In Hamas | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...Israeli-Palestinian conflict was rocked by literal and metaphorical explosions last week. On Saturday night an Israeli missile struck a car carrying Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the vitriolic leader in Gaza of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Rantisi, a pediatrician who helped found the group in the 1980s, was killed along with a bodyguard and one other companion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: A Deal, A Hit | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...Iraqi government comes about, they will probably get what they want: the U.S. out and a pro-Iran, Shi'ite-led government in. Both the top Iraqi Shi'ite leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, and Iran's close ally on Iraq's interim Governing Council, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, will probably gain positions of influence after the U.S. hands over authority. A senior U.S. diplomat with experience in the region says Iran "will do everything it can to avoid confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Islamic Power: Intelligence: Is Iran Provoking the Unrest? | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...cardiac arrest or an Apache [helicopter], I prefer to be killed by an Apache." ABDEL AZIZ RANTISI, interim Hamas leader in Gaza, responding to Israel's new hard-line policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Assassination Doesn't Work | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

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