March 22, 2004
YASSASSINATED
Check eBay in coming weeks for a bargain-priced secondhand wheelchair, with slight missile damage:
Israeli forces killed Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the violent Islamic Hamas movement early today, witnesses and Hamas leaders said.
The move is likely to escalate more than three years of Palestinian-Israeli violence.
Israeli helicopters fired missiles at the wheelchair-bound Hamas leader as he left a mosque near his house at daybreak today, residents said, and Hamas officials and witnesses said he was killed.
Meryl Yourish has more.
Posted by Tim Blair at March 22, 2004 03:32 PM...and bargain priced Israeli buses suitable for the wreckers
Posted by: dunidid at March 22, 2004 at 03:49 PMGood shot. Ratso Rantissi will HAVE to show his mug now, or be usurped. Target lock time for the IAF...
Posted by: mojo at March 22, 2004 at 03:54 PMSlight missile damage?! Oh my god, i spit up reading that one.
er, sorry to comment spam, but i must again point out the resemblence to another http://http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000120.html">evil-doer. I mean, talk about freakin' separted at birth!
Posted by: Bill at March 22, 2004 at 04:34 PMThese Hamas dudes aren't too bright but perhaps there's a few other top dogs now thinking, "Golly gosh, could I be next on the list? Perhaps we'd better pull our collective heads in and sue for peace".
This could have benefits for Israel. It will bring 'martyrs' out by the score looking to commit atrocities. Israel is prepared and waiting. An angry Hamas is a careless Hamas so over the next few days and weeks we can expect quite a few stupid high-explosive dudes to be put of their misery. May be that's the part of the plan - smoke 'em out and knock 'em off.
Posted by: walter plinge at March 22, 2004 at 04:39 PMThis is sure to unleash lots of death and destruction.
On the other hand, lots of death and destruction were in the plans anyway.
BBC News has some fine pictures of the bits of the wheelchair. Not much left it!
Posted by: B Morey at March 22, 2004 at 04:50 PMBBC News has some fine pictures of the bits of the wheelchair. Not much left of it!
Posted by: B Morey at March 22, 2004 at 04:50 PMSo much for wheel chair access in Israel.
And here I thought Israel was promoting tourism.
Posted by: IXLNXS at March 22, 2004 at 05:06 PMStill waiting for the Palestinians to grow up and kill Arafat themselves.
Posted by: aaron at March 22, 2004 at 05:32 PMSo now we hear his followers and other Palistinians talking about Israel "opening the gates of Hell" etc...
Little word of advice to you fellas (and other Arab states as well, I suppose). Remember one of the more important rules of international relations: never f$%k with a nuclear power, especially one which is located right next to you.
Jewish infidel devils you are the real terrorist. Islam cannot be terrorist. Allah cannot be terrorist. Only Jew, infidel, athiest and idolator can be terrorist. Woman is Satan's tool.
AKBAR THE GREAT
Posted by: AKBAR THE GREAT at March 22, 2004 at 06:02 PMDid anyone else piss themselves when the Hamas spokesperson said that assassinations and building walls (sic) aren't the way to strive for peace? Who could take such a dumb arse seriously? Who goes around sending people in their teens and early 20's out as walking bombs? Killing that fucker was a step in the right direction. So who they going to target next?
Posted by: JakeD at March 22, 2004 at 06:12 PMI'm dancing around the room with a beer in one hand and a scotch in the other, pausing only to drink from one or the other, or to put one down so I can give a V to Yassin's picture. This has absolutely made my day. I think I'm actually happier than when I heard they'd caught Saddam. This one goes in my screengrabs collection.
Oh and BTW, so-called Akbar the Great. If you're a troll, nice try. If you're for real, then fuck off and fix me a doner kebab or I'll have you stabbed. And if you think that woman is Satan's tool then you should move to Central America. They all look like Jennifer Lopez' and Salma Hayek's better-looking sister, and for some reason, they dig me. Satan? I lurve that dude.
Posted by: David Gillies at March 22, 2004 at 06:16 PMHopefully the founder and/or spirtual leader of Hizbollah, i.e. the charming fellow who said the truth "We're not attacking you (West) so you would offer us something. We're attacking to eliminate you."
I say it is time to start a collection so the IDF will be well-supplied with Hellfire and TOW missiles (The weapon of choice for gunships in the vermin extermination role.).
C.T.
Posted by: C.T. at March 22, 2004 at 06:17 PMApparently there were no civilian casualties. Looks like it couldn't have been any more perfect.
"opening the gates of Hell"? As if Hamas wasn't already using all it's resources to destroy Israel?
Posted by: Dan at March 22, 2004 at 06:52 PMOne of the reports I saw mentioned one bystander besides Yassin and his goons. And there were wounded.
Posted by: Sortelli at March 22, 2004 at 07:02 PMExpect several letters in tomorrow's SMH deriding the IDF for 'murdering and innocent old blind cripple'.
Posted by: murph at March 22, 2004 at 08:08 PMDid anyone else piss themselves when the Hamas spokesperson said that assassinations and building walls (sic) aren't the way to strive for peace?
Thats pretty gross isn't it...I didn't here that but one of the first callers coming through on the talk back station that I sometimes listen to was nearly choking on his own words which included something very similar to "can you think of anything worse than murdering someone when they are coming out of pray?" (the answer of course is yes, there are lots of things worse than that, one of which might be targetting a bus with "school" written on it!!)
Naturally he went on to splutter about Israels weapons being bought from the U.S so it was really all George W's fault.
Posted by: Jacob at March 22, 2004 at 08:15 PM"can you think of anything worse than murdering someone when they are coming out of pray?"
Of course if it had been George Bush in the 'hot seat' after prayer then the caller would have been overjoyed.
Posted by: walter plinge at March 22, 2004 at 09:01 PMAbout time they offed this fuck. Can anyone give a url where one can pay his disrespect?
Posted by: S.A. Smith at March 22, 2004 at 09:12 PMThere was a man called Yassin,
Inspired many a Hamas Assasin,
So the IDF got the shits.
and blew the cunt to bits,
And now the gates of hell, he's passin.
Posted by: fred at March 22, 2004 at 09:25 PMYASSASSINATED??
Im sorry but we are talking about a person dying here.... ....ohhh I just got it! hahahaahaha
Posted by: ABC at March 22, 2004 at 09:30 PMHamas is now threating to attack the US for the first time. Another example of Arabs having the IQ of a snapping turtle. If they ever take credit for a terror attack against the US they will incur the wrath of the American people and Bush. The US won't ask but demand that Israel exterminate Hamas if that happens.
Posted by: Reid of America at March 22, 2004 at 10:08 PMPredictably Hamas is vowing to open the gates of hell. What exactly does this mean? Are they vowing to kill every jew twice now?
Posted by: Craig Mc at March 22, 2004 at 10:25 PMNo Craig, they have to open the gates so Yassin can get through
Posted by: Dead Ed at March 22, 2004 at 10:40 PMThe pig-eaters, fornicators and dog-followers will know Allah's wrath. O infidel, can you not heed the words of Allah's messenger? All I hear from you are woman's words.
AKBAR THE GREAT
Posted by: Akbar the Great at March 22, 2004 at 10:50 PMWhere's the (obligatory) car swarm? It can't be a real Paleostinian death without the car swarm...
Posted by: Roger Bournival at March 22, 2004 at 11:33 PMNext steps Israel should take:
1-Wait for the funeral of the cockroach, which is bound to draw his other insectoid terrorist friends out of the woodwork
2-Drop a few thousand gallons of napalm in the parade.
Wasn't this the guy who was all excited about women joining the cause of suicide bombers? Back a little while ago when that mother of two blew herself up, he was out there welcoming women to the cause.
He apparently takes credit for every Hamas attack. Nice guy. Pretty crazy to think of a missile bearing down on some old genocidal psycho in a wheelchair.
Posted by: Dash at March 22, 2004 at 11:48 PMThe headline in the Australian reads:
Hamas spiritual leader 'killed'
Shouldn't it be:
Hamas 'spiritual leader' killed
Posted by: Dwight at March 22, 2004 at 11:51 PMCheck eBay in coming weeks for a bargain-priced secondhand wheelchair, with slight missile damage...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Tim, you da man.
Posted by: Jeffersonian at March 22, 2004 at 11:51 PMForgot to mention... the movie Stripes popped into my head after I saw this. When the General asks Bill Murray where his commander was:
"Blown up, sir!"
Posted by: Dash at March 22, 2004 at 11:57 PMHe shouldn't have parked his van in the Mosque handicapped spot. It was a dead giveaway.
Posted by: Lewis at March 23, 2004 at 12:09 AMThere is a nice tribute to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin over at An Aussie View. I hope you are moved by it as much as I was...
What a great shot! good riddance. the next few weeks are going to be interesting...
Posted by: Oktober at March 23, 2004 at 12:29 AM"wheel-chair bound" tsk, tsk...those bad Israelis. not above killing of old, handicapped people.
Posted by: niels at March 23, 2004 at 12:33 AMWell this just shows that the Jews are just like Adu Nidal -- killing invalids in wheelchairs.
/Leftist moral equivalencer
Posted by: Dean Douthat at March 23, 2004 at 12:40 AMniels you old commie agitater Thought yould gone up the khyber?
Hey "Akbar"...Given your views, why are you posting from a "edu" domanin in Australia?
C.T.
Posted by: C.T. at March 23, 2004 at 04:00 AM"Words cannot describe the emotion of anger and hate inside our hearts," said Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh, a close associate of Yassin.
What happened to the "we love death" bit
"What happened to the "we love death" bit"
Yeah, shouldn't this be a joyous occasion? I mean he could have died ignominiously--say, from a colostomy-bag explosion; instead his spirit now knows the beauty and purity of death that only martyrdom can bring.
Posted by: S.A. Smith at March 23, 2004 at 06:33 AM"What happened to the "we love death" bit"
Um, DUH! They only love death when they do it to themselves.
Posted by: Bill at March 23, 2004 at 06:41 AMThe really ironic thing is that Yassin, unlike the splodeydopes, actually qualifies as a martyr now. Splodeydopes are simple suicides, they killed themselves, whereas Yassin was killed by others, arguably "for the faith"...
Posted by: mojo at March 23, 2004 at 06:52 AMany chance we can send jesse jackson and al sharpton to intervene b/t hamas and Israel? now seems like a GREAT time to send the great agitators over there...
Posted by: yo! at March 23, 2004 at 08:47 AMWhere are the cries that Hamas should not perpetuate the cycle of violence by retaliating?
Posted by: Bobby at March 23, 2004 at 09:09 AMIt was Yassin's fault that he was in the path of a missile.
Posted by: d at March 23, 2004 at 11:44 AMGood one I heard.
Of course they had to open the Gates of Hell. How else could they make it wheel chair accessable?
Posted by: M. Simon at March 24, 2004 at 06:32 AMIt's always great to be able to get up in the morning, log on and go straight to the blogmire to gloat about the latest political assassination.
Sure made my day. Now it's off to do some good in the world. Bye.
Posted by: Miranda Divide at March 26, 2004 at 10:33 AM