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March 24, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=20&u=/afp/20040323/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_yassin_operation_040323131024

Israel Sees Yassin Hit as Fruition of Gaza Intelligence Network

(AFP) - Intelligence experts praised the operation as a great military success. "There is a very, very short time during which we had him in our sights and the decision could be made to strike," a senior military source said. "We were almost there on a few occasions in the past, but Monday the circumstances were good," the source said. "Yassin was a very slippery target because he relied constantly on Israeli reluctance to cause heavy collateral damage. He hid in crowds all the time and it took a while to find this chink in his armor," said former military intelligence officer Eran Lerman.

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