Word: yehia
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...past? Despite Peres' threat, Israeli officers are loath to blatantly re-enter land under P.A. control and risk a broad confrontation between Israel's forces and Arafat's. The military would favor covert operations in Arafat's jurisdiction, like the assassination in January of Hamas' master bombmaker, Yehia Ayyash, in the Gaza Strip. Says the Defense Ministry official: "If we have intelligence about someone in Arafat's zones, we'll give the information to the P.A. And if they won't move, we'll act, but only through commando operations." Those operations would also violate the accords, and Arafat would...
ISRAELIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BRACED for the blow. The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas had vowed to take revenge for Israel's assassination two months ago of Yehia Ayyash--or "the Engineer," as he was known--the organization's master bombmaker. Yet when the fury burst forth, its savagery was stunning. First, in two explosions spaced 45 min. apart, Hamas suicide-bombers claimed 26 victims, first on a bus in Jerusalem, then at a hitchhiking post outside coastal Ashkelon. Then, exactly seven days later, the militants struck again, eviscerating another bus in central Jerusalem, this time killing at least...
...YEHIA AYYASH WAS AN EXTRAORDINARILY CAREFUL MAN. He had to be, to endure three years in the No. 1 slot on Israeli security's most wanted list. Called "the Engineer" for his bombmaking expertise, Ayyash never allowed others to fix the time or place of an appointment. Only he determined his comings and goings...
...Israel's most-wanted list met his demise in the Gaza Strip. Yehia Ayyash, known as "the Engineer" for his bomb-making expertise, picked up the phone and was killed by an explosive planted in its earpiece. Ayyash was the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Officially, Israel declined to take responsibility for Ayyash's death...
Security officials are hoping that interrogations of the latest batch of Hamas suspects will lead them to the al-Qassam militants. The Israelis have a list of 27 fugitives in the West Bank and believe there are others as yet unidentified. At the top of the wanted list is Yehia Ayyash, 29, an electrical engineer from the West Bank village of Rafat, who is known within Hamas as "the engineer." According to Israeli and Hamas sources, he is the movement's master bombmaker, who probably built the TNT device used in Tel Aviv...