"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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"Yama" wrote:
Hmm...I see lot of people are mistaken about the actual signifance of
this
event.

Yassin was a spiritual figurehead of Hamas. He was not an operational
leader.

He was *certainly* an operational leader. Broad strategy for sure, and
he was the man behind most of the suicide bombers over the last couple
of decades.

Not really. He was in Israeli prison until 1997 where from he could hardly
plan any operations. After that he has spent considerable time in house
arrest placed by Palestinian authorities.

If Israeli really thought he was anything more than a figurehead, they would
have killed him years ago.

Half-blind or not, he was an important man in Hamas operations, not just
a "spiritual figurehead" (which makes him sound like something other
than a murdering *******, so don't bother trying to use that phrase or
anything similar).

He certainly was a supporter of suicide bombings. That said, it seems that
many Western countries are more or less condemning this move - including UK.
BBC: UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned the Israeli missile
attack on Ahmed Yassin as "unlawful".