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Without angels there is no hockey?


World condemns Yassin assassination
The World Today - Tuesday, 23 March , 2004 12:14:00
Reporter: Leigh Sales
HAMISH ROBERTSON: Senior Bush administration officials have been holding meetings all day with Israel's Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, where they discussed Israel's targeted killing of Sheikh Yassin, and prospects for the Road Map for peace in the Middle East. Sheikh Yassin's death has been met with outrage in the Arab community, and Israel's action has attracted worldwide condemnation.
But as Leigh Sales now reports from Washington, unlike other nations, the United States is refusing to condemn Israel, saying instead that it's "troubled".
LEIGH SALES: A chorus of international voices condemned Israel's targeted killing of Sheikh Yassin, from the United Nations in New York to the European Union in Brussels.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern expressed the view which has been the almost universal reaction.
BERTIE AHERN: Naturally we condemn the extrajudicial killings of Sheikh Yassin and seven other Palestinians by Israeli forces this morning. And the European Union has at present stated it has consistently opposed extrajudicial killings. Not only are extrajudicial killings contrary to international law, but they undermine the concept of the rule of law which is a key element in the fight against terrorism.
LEIGH SALES: He was backed by French President, Jacques Chirac.
"It is in this spirit, that we condemn the act conducted against Sheikh Yassin because it was against international law," the French leader said.
In Washington, the United States was at pains to point out the Israeli Government hadn't given it advance warning of the mission. The US is still trying to mediate a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and needs to try to maintain some appearance of impartiality.
Even so, its closeness to Israel made it politically impossible for the US to use the same strong language that other nations did in condemning the killing.
White House spokesman, Scott McClellan.
SCOTT MCLELLAN: During this time period we want to continue to urge all parties to show restraint. That's where our focus is, so that we can get back to moving forward on the peace process. Again, we've made it very clear this is not something we had advanced warning about.
LEIGH SALES: Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with senior Bush administration officials today, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
Like the White House spokesman, Mr Shalom was also at pains to point out Israel had acted without US backing.
SILVAN SHALOM: This decision was taken by the Israeli Cabinet itself and it was not coordinated with the American administration like Hamas claimed this morning. We are taking our decisions on our own, by ourselves and it was a decision that was taken as self defence.
LEIGH SALES: The question now is whether the US-led Road Map for peace in the Middle East can be salvaged. The peace process has bounced back before from incredible setbacks, yet the progress always seems to last only until the next inevitable cycle of violence and retaliation begins.
This is Leigh Sales in Washington for The World Today.

US vetoes UN resolution on Yasin killing
Friday 26 March 2004, 2:50 Makka Time, 23:50 GMT
Eleven of the 15-member council supported the resolution
The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution seeking to condemn Israel's assassination of Hamas spiritual leader, Shaikh Ahmad Yasin.
Three days of negotiations failed to find a compromise on the council, where the United States has regularly used its veto power as a permanent member to block measures condemning Israel.
US ambassador John Negroponte said the "one-sided, unbalanced resolution" was "silent about the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas."
The vote on the 15-nation council was 11 in favour and the United States against, with three abstentions.
Deep disappointment
The US veto spiking the resolution brought a sharp reaction from Algeria, which said the UN Security Council is "not sending the right message to the world."
Shaikh Yasin, the 67-year-old wheel-chair bound founder of Hamas, was killed by an Israeli air strike in the dawn of 22 March as he returned from a mosque after prayers in the Gaza Strip.
Israel later claimed the assassination had been carried out and supervised by its Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. It accused Shaikh Yasin of masterminding "terror."
Though much of the world was outraged by the assassination and condemned the extra-judicial killing, the United States supported its long-time ally Israel.
The White House condoned the killing, claiming "Israel had the right to defend itself."
Agencies



Hamas leader Rantisi killed in IAF strike in Gaza City
By Amos Harel, Yoav Stern and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies
Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi was killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on his car Saturday evening in Gaza City. Two other people were also killed in the strike, including Rantisi's son.
Rantisi was one of the Hamas leaders at the top of Israel's target list, after the assassination last month of Hamas founder and leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
The missile attack took place a block from Rantisi's house in the Sheik Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. The dead included Akram Nassar, 35, Rantisi's personal bodyguard and his son Mohammed, 27.
Rantisi's wife was in the car, but her condition and location was not known, hospital sources and Hamas officials said.
Rantisi was taken to Gaza's Shifa Hospital in critical condition, his body pocked with bloody wounds, and rushed into emergency surgery, but he died five minutes after arriving at the hospital.
About 2,000 angry Palestinians marched through the streets carrying pieces of Rantisi's car shouting, "revenge, revenge." Shooting was heard in the center of Gaza City and people were chanting Rantisi's name.
The attack came several hours after a Border Policeman was killed and three other Israelis were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Erez Crossing in Gaza, which Hamas jointly claimed with the military wing of Fatah.
Rantisi was the newly-appointed head of the militant group in Gaza, following Yassin's assassination. He was one of the most hardline members of the militant movement, which rejects all compromise with Israel and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Israel had previously tried to kill Rantisi on June 10 last year, when three Apache helicopters fired at least seven missiles toward his car in a crowded Gaza thoroughfare, reducing his vehicle to a scorched heap of metal. Rantisi escaped with a wound to the right leg. Two Palestinian bystanders were killed.
During the mourning period for Yassin, Rantisi was defiant about Israel's threats against him. "We will all die one day. Nothing will change. If by Apache or by cardiac arrest, I prefer Apache," he said.
Thousands of Palestinians poured into the streets of Gaza to protest the assassination and Hamas leaders vowed revenge. "This blood will not be wasted. It is our fate in Hamas and it is our fate as Palestinians to die as martyrs. The battle will not weaken our determination or break our will," Hamas official Ismail Haniya told reporters.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia pointed a finger of blame at the U.S. "The Palestinian cabinet considers this terrorist Israeli campaign is a direct result of American encouragement and the complete bias of the American administration towards the Israeli government," he said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled said, "Israel... today struck a mastermind of terrorism, with blood on his hands."
"We have to continue this war, every time and every place. And this story with Rantisi shows how the army can get everywhere. We have to continue, we have no other choice," said Cabinet Minister Gideon Ezra.
Rantisi was born in 1947 in the village of Yavna near the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. During the War of Independence his family fled their home and settled in the Khan Yunis refugee camp. Rantisi, who attended school at the refugee camp, had 11 sisters and brothers. After completing his high school studies, he went on to study medicine in Egypt.
Rantisi returned to the Gaza Strip during the 1970s and worked as a pediatrician at the Naser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
The IDF first arrested Rantisi in 1983, for attempting to organize a boycott of tax payments to the Israeli civil administration authorities. He was arrested a second time in 1988, and was jailed for two and a half years for his involvement in Hamas.
Rantisi was placed in administrative detention in 1990, and was included in the 400 Hamas members who were deported to Lebanon in December of 1992.
Upon his return to the Strip, Rantisi was arrested numerous times by the Palestinian Authority. Recent attempts to arrest him were foiled by armed Hamas activists.
Palestinians carrying Abdel Aziz Rantisi into a Gaza hospital on Saturday, where he died of wounds sustained in an IAF strike. (Reuters)


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