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...First, Israel had previously jailed Yassin, but he was freed in an unfortunate prisoner exchange with Jordan in 1997 after two Israeli Mossad agents were captured in Jordan following a botched assassination attempt. Second, arresting the spiritual leader of a militant group that virtually controls large areas of the Gaza strip is a near-impossible task that puts many lives—both Israeli and Palestinian—at risk. Finally, although circumstances were different in this instance, most Israeli targeted killings are directed at those actively planning terrorist attacks, such that devising and executing elaborate arrest operations in what...
...come to see carried out murder operations for Hamas, the militant organization bent on reclaiming all of historic Palestine from Israel. We parked our car in a designated spot so his watchers could check that we hadn't been tailed. As the sun dipped into the sea lapping the Gaza Strip on a steamy night last June, the killer was cooling off with a swim. For a wanted man, he seemed rather audacious, relaxing unarmed on the crowded seashore. But though he appeared at ease, he took meticulous precautions against Israeli agents. Two bodyguards drifted over to surround him while...
...local population. The U.S. had hoped to dampen local hostility by withdrawing from the city itself and handing security control to Iraqi forces, but February's daylight raid on the police station highlighted just how permissive an environment Fallujah is for the insurgents - in the same way that Gaza is for Palestinian gunmen. The logic of occupation, as the Israelis well know, demands that the U.S. retaliate harshly for the Fallujah killings, or else risk sending a message of weakness that would likely inspire further attacks. Hence Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt's promise of an "overwhelming" response to "pacify that...
...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...
...absence of a single "spiritual leader," Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza will be lead by a collective comprising operational military and political leaders who have escaped previous Israeli attempts. But these men will know that in Israeli eyes, they too are dead men walking - after all, Israel's "decapitation" strategy only makes sense if the assassinations are repeated for each successive replacement leadership. (Rantisi has already escaped one attempt on his life.) For Hamas, that means adapting the leadership structures to make them less dependent on the survival of specific individuals. Under those circumstances, efforts...