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March 24, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/comment/story.html?id=c9ae05dd-bb50-4393-a75b-9d7aecd59c1c

To Kill a Terrorist

(National Post-Canada) Editorial - No one need shed a tear for the sheikh. No major Hamas bombing or missile attack on Israel was carried out without his personal approval. And there have been many. Sheikh Yassin was an enemy combatant, a man who has marked himself as fair military game through his decision to dispatch dozens of killers into Israel. What is "excessive" about dispatching an arch-terrorist along with three aides and bodyguards? No one outside Yassin's entourage was killed. To us, this sounds surgical rather than "disproportionate." Few terrorists deserved "martyrdom" more than Yassin. In the long run, his death will make the Middle East a safer place.

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