The AGE: Evil incarnate to some, a hero to others
Although he was an enemy, the Israelis once had their uses for Ahmed Yassin. Ed O'Loughlin reports.
Nobody in the Holy Land will be unmoved by yesterday's assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
To Israelis, the 68-year-old quadriplegic was the incarnation of implacable terrorist evil. To many Palestinian Muslims he was a holy figurehead of resistance to oppression
When the first intifada, or uprising, against the Israeli occupation began in 1987, he formally founded Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement), initially with covert support from the Israeli security forces, which hoped to use Islam as a counterweight to Yasser Arafat's secular PLO
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