Foreword
At daybreak on March 22, Israeli Apache helicopters in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip fired three missiles at a car taking Sheik Ahmed Yassin from daybreak services at the Al Mujama mosque in the Sabra neighborhood. The missiles instantly killed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, as well as two of his bodyguards and a bystander.Yassin’s assassination, part of an Israeli policy targeting militant Palestinian leaders, has threatened to further derail the April 30, 2003, "Road Map" to peace in the Middle East devised by the Quartet of the United States, Russia, the European Union,…
