too bad no one is putting key Mossad figures under house arrest... Note: forwarded message attached.
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--- Begin Message --- Hamas Founder Under House Arrrest
.c The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian police put the founder of Hamas
under house arrest Wednesday, officials said, in Yasser Arafat's boldest
move yet against the violent Islamic group.
Witnesses said a Palestinian policeman entered Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's home in
Gaza City and informed him that he was under house arrest. Yassin, spiritual
leader of the militant group that has claimed responsibility for dozens of
attacks against Israelis, is a quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair.
Palestinian security officials said only relatives would be permitted to
visit Yassin, and his telephone lines would be cut.
Hamas claimed responsibility for two weekend suicide attacks in Jerusalem
and Haifa that killed 25 people and the three bombers. In retaliation,
Israeli planes and helicopters blasted Palestinian installations in the West
Bank and Gaza, and Israel declared Arafat's Palestinian Authority an
``entity that supports terrorism.''
On Wednesday, the Israelis demanded that Arafat arrest leaders of the
extremist groups.
Yassin was in an Israeli prison for several years, but was released in 1997
in the aftermath of a botched Israeli attempt to assassinate a Hamas leader
in Jordan.
AP-NY-12-05-01 1622EST
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