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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Hamas leaders chose Rantisi to succeed Yasin

Maariv (Israeli newspaper)  

"US offered Yasin immunity if he stopped terror." Group says it's willing to talk with all factions. Abu Ala visits mourners' tent, calls for unity.
...Sheikh Said Siam, another senior functionary of Hamas, earlier gave Maariv Online the first official confirmation for reports that appeared recently in the Arab press that the United States offered the organization's leader Sheikh Ahmad Yasin immunity from attempts on his life in return for a stop to terrorist attacks.

This immunity, according to Sheikh Siam, would have applied only to the political wing of Hamas and not to its armed wing, the Iz a-Din el-Kassam Brigades. The offer was relayed to Yasin by intermediaries, but he rejected it saying "the blood of Hamas leaders is no dearer than that of a Palestinian child."...
Posted by: Zayphar / 3/23/2004 03:47:00 PM


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