(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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