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...days before, Haitham had left his home in Sheik Radwan, a neighborhood of Gaza City in which the Islamist militants of Hamas reign, and walked with his friends along the beach. When they reached the edge of the city, near the three Israeli settlements at the north of the Gaza Strip, Haitham produced a knife and a small pipe bomb from his pockets. "I invite you to join me in martyrdom," he told his companions. His friends declined and watched him continue. He was shot by an Israeli soldier guarding the settlement of Dugit. It is a testament...
...Talal al-Saud,who is the biggest foreign investor in the U.S.: "The people see their brothers dying in Palestine, and it makes them hate America." The Israeli reoccupation of West Bank cities has handed religious hard-liners an excuse to go on the offensive. In a televised address, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, imam of the Mosque of Mecca, declared that God turned Jews into "pigs and monkeys," condemned the "poisonous culture and rotten ideas" of the West, and trashed Hinduism...
...wake of an international outcry over the 15 Palestinian civilians Israel killed in the process of assassinating senior Hamas leader Sheik Salah Shehadah last week, Israeli leaders said they wouldn't have dropped the one-ton bomb on his Gaza hideout if they had known the result in advance. But given Shehadah's recent achievements, it is clear why Israeli security officials wanted him gone. Palestinian officials and Israeli security sources tell TIME the 49-year-old Gazan had transformed Hamas' terror operations over the past year. From Gaza, Shehadah used e-mail and cell-phone text messages to rebuild...
...near-fatal crash at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix to go on to win both the 1998 and 1999 Formula One World Championships. DIED. SALAH SHEHADEH, 48, founder and leader of the military wing of Hamas, fervent supporter of suicide bombings and a possible successor to Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, in an Israeli air strike; in Gaza City. In the attack, an F-16 warplane fired a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb at the building where Shehadeh was meeting his family. The strike also killed Shehadeh's wife Leileh, 40, his daughter Iman, 14, and 12 other...
...Talal al-Saud,who is the biggest foreign investor in the U.S.: "The people see their brothers dying in Palestine, and it makes them hate America." The Israeli reoccupation of West Bank cities has handed religious hard-liners an excuse to go on the offensive. In a televised address, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, imam of the Mosque of Mecca, declared that God turned Jews into "pigs and monkeys," condemned the "poisonous culture and rotten ideas" of the West, and trashed Hinduism...