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...some misguided conspiracy theory that leads the Arab and Palestinian street to accuse the U.S. of green-lighting the killing of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin - and that could cause problems for the U.S. in Iraq and the rest of the Arab world. The Bush administration has typically set "red lines" for Israel in terms of its handling of the Palestinians, and while Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has systematically pushed back those red lines over the past three years, he has tended to avoid crossing them. Sharon has repeatedly made clear, for example, that the reason he has refrained...
...Crosshairs MIDDLE EAST Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and threatened to resume assassinations of Palestinian militants after a Hamas suicide bombing - the group's first carried out by a woman - killed four Israelis at a border crossing. Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Zeev Boim named Hamas' spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin as a key target. Military Move JAPAN In the first deployment of Japanese troops to a combat zone since World War II, 30 members of what will be a 1,000-strong humanitarian force left for Iraq. Polls show that about half of Japanese oppose the mission. Prime Minister Junichiro...
...trendy district of Jerusalem, killing seven and wounding at least 30 others. Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by the terrorist group Hamas, which said it ordered the bombings in retaliation for Israel's attempted assassination a week earlier of the group's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Few people on either side of the conflict had had much faith that Hamas would stick to the cease-fire it declared in June. But the newest attacks--and the Israeli Cabinet's decision to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "in a manner, and at a time, of its choosing" for failing...
...event, Israel is intent on wiping out Hamas on its own. 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
...demoralize his followers, it would not necessarily dull the anger of these other parties. In fact, many Iraqis believe it would provoke them to stronger action. "Saddam's being caught or killed isn't good for the Americans," says Marouf Sami Noori, brother-in-law of fugitive Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam's Vice President. "There are many people who would like to fight against the Americans, but if they fight now, they'll be considered Saddam's people. So the resistance will be stronger if Saddam is captured or killed...