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...YEHIA AYYASH WAS AN EXTRAORDINARILY CAREFUL MAN. He had to be, to endure three years in the No. 1 slot on Israeli security's most wanted list. Called "the Engineer" for his bombmaking expertise, Ayyash never allowed others to fix the time or place of an appointment. Only he determined his comings and goings...
GAZA STRIP: Palestinians are blaming Israelis for the death of Yehiya Ayyash, a Palestinian terrorist known as "The Engineer," who was killed today by explosives concealed in a mobile phone. "Israel is behind this attack. It carried it out through its agents in the area," a spokesman for the radical Islamic group Hamas declared. While not admitting responsibility, Israeli officials didn't mince words. "I think he deserves it," Police Minister Moshe Shala commented. "He injured many innocent people, children, young people, civilians, the elderly." Ayyash has topped the Israeli police most wanted list following a wave of suicide bombings...
...officials are hoping that interrogations of the latest batch of Hamas suspects will lead them to the al-Qassam militants. The Israelis have a list of 27 fugitives in the West Bank and believe there are others as yet unidentified. At the top of the wanted list is Yehia Ayyash, 29, an electrical engineer from the West Bank village of Rafat, who is known within Hamas as "the engineer." According to Israeli and Hamas sources, he is the movement's master bombmaker, who probably built the TNT device used in Tel Aviv...
...reporter Robert Ruby was pelted with rocks. To identify themselves as bona fide journalists, some foreign correspondents began ! carrying press cards issued by the Jerusalem-based Arab Journalists Association. "I have to help journalists get the truth and protect them from getting into trouble," says A.J.A. director Radwan Abu-Ayyash...