Friday, January 16, 2004
Well, OK, maybe not, but after asking yesterday "And Yassin is still alive because...?", I wake up to this sensible headline:
Yahoo! News - Israel Says Hamas Leader Yassin 'Marked for Death'
The wheelchair-bound Muslim cleric attended Friday prayers as usual at a mosque near his Gaza City home and told reporters he would embrace "martyrdom." A Palestinian cabinet minister said Israel was playing with fire by making the threat.
Hamas, an Islamic group dedicated to Israel's destruction, claimed responsibility for Wednesday's bombing by a Palestinian mother of two at a border industrial zone. It killed three soldiers and a security officer, further undermining chances of reviving a U.S.-backed peace plan.
"He is marked for death and he had better dig deep underground, where he won't be able to tell the difference between day and night," Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim said of Yassin.
"We will find him in his tunnels and liquidate him," he told Army Radio...
Yassin is a General in the total war against Israel. He ought to be a high-priority target. Trouble is, these Hamas animals like to keep lots of kids and civilians around them at all times. Personally, I'd make sure I was never standing anywhere close to him.
