WASHINGTON, March 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), a Muslim American think tank, condemns yesterday's murder of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine and calls upon Israel to end its policy of extra judicial murders of Palestinian people, the destruction of their homes and property and the continued illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. We condemn the murder of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and also Israel's policy of targeted assassination," says UASR Director of Public Affairs, Anisa Abd el Fattah. "It is ironic that Yassin was killed only days after releasing a statement saying that his organization was willing to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority, and other Palestinia...
Pinpoint Israeli strikes killed Mahmoud Adani (2001), Salan Shahade (2002), Ahmed Yassin (2004) and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (2004) ("IDF Strike Kills Hamas Leader Ahmed Yassin," Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 22, 2004). As President Obama remarked in his address to the nation, "the death of Bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al-Qaeda ... on nights like this we can say: 'Justice has been done.'" (Barack Obama, "[Osama Bin Laden] is Dead: Full Transcript," The Telegraph, May 1,2011). Targeted killings also force terrorists to spend more time protecting themselves ... There is no question that Hamas has been seriously weakened by the decimation of its ranks through assassination." ("Do Targeted Killings Work?" Foreign Affair...
The second, more recent assassination in a year of political murders was that of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week, which was authorized by Ariel Sharon. Yassin was in his late sixties, was quadriplegic and nearly blind, and was killed by a helicopter missile attack as he was pushed out of a mosque in his wheelchair. Can one imagine a more perfect profile for a martyr? He was the founder of Hamas (which means "zeal") and a devout Muslim. He was accused of inciting suicide bombers but had only recently been released from an Israeli jail, in return for some Mossad agents. In fact the amount of time he had spent in Israeli jails made it unlikely that he had done any actual organizing of the bombers. Up until the first Intifada, Yassin's focus had been entirely on cultural and social work, and ...
DEARBORN - The Congress of Arab American Organizations (CAAO) joined the international community in strongly condemning the Israeli killing of Palestinian leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on Monday, 22 March 2004. Israel launched missiles at morning worshippers exiting a local mosque in Gaza, killing the wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and eight other civilians. U.S. weapons were used, in violation of U.S. export laws governing their use.
Iraq is ablaze and the "coalition of the willing" increasingly nervous and unwilling. The occupiers are having to face the disturbing reality that their forces will not be tolerated for too much longer by the Shia majority in Iraq. Meanwhile, the price of occupation continues to climb steeply. The Shia majority were supposed to be the happy masses that would welcome the occupiers. At any rate, that was the official script, formed in the conceit of imperial arrogance... the same arrogance that leaves so many befuddled about why Iraqis obviously aren't eternally grateful for their rescue from [Saddam]. The recent dramatic downturn seems to have begun with Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin on March 22, a move that was roundly condemned by every other country in the world except ...
Alon Pinkas, Israeli Ambassador put it in even more strident terms saying that the assassination of Sheikh [Ahmed Yassin] was both the "morally right thing to do," and a "good step forward," given that the PLO had "ample time to contain this man and remove this man.
There is an expectation that [Ahmed Yassin]'s death will put a stop to the Palestinian uprising (Intifada) for freedom. Or that Yasser Arafat can somehow put a stop to the Intifada. But the Intifada is bigger than Sheikh Yassin. It is bigger than Yasser Arafat. It is most certainly bigger than [Ariel Sharon]. It is about the human spirit and the desire to be free. The famous Patrick Henry quotation, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' is actually very applicable in the case of the Palestinian Intifada. Unfortunately, Israel seems to believe that 'Might makes right.' The killing of Yassin is yet another sign of this. 'It is very important that everyone step back now and try now to be calm in the region. There is always a possibility of a better day in the Middle East and some of the thin...
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -- The assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Monday as he left morning prayers marks a turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- and the end rhetorically and practically to the peace process. The death of the wheelchair-bound cleric, the spiritual leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, is also likely to lead to a dramatic upsurge in Israeli-Palestinian violence, analysts say.
Arab leaders will gather here next week for a critical look at the threats, prospects and frustrations facing the Arab world, which is at a low point in its relations with the West. The Israeli helicopter missile strike in the Gaza Strip on Monday that killed Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the paralyzed founder of the Palestinian organization Hamas, virtually has eliminated the prospect of any conciliatory move by the 16th summit meeting of the 22-member League of Arab States, usually called the Arab League.
In the aftermath of 9/11, many scholars and activists described Al-Qaeda's act as "blowback," the unitended consequence to covert operations. Al-Qaeda metamorphosed from some factions of the anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen; Osama Bin Laden is therefore America's monster. The same can be said of [Ahmed Yassin] and Hamas, Israel's Frankenstein monster that came back to haunt them. Tony Cordesman, an analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies, made a similar observation two years ago when he told United Press International that Israel "aided Hamas directly" as a "counterbalance to the PLO." And Ha'aretz also pointed out the Islamic Resistance's origins March 23, by using almost the same language, describing Yassin's Islamic Association in 1979 as "recognized by the IDF as a counterweight t...
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