ARMY: ARAFAT MAY BE NEXT
Tue Mar 23 2004 11:01:58 ET
Israel's army chief of staff hinted Tuesday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah may also be in the military's sights after the killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Asked at a security conference in Tel Aviv whether the two leaders were also marked for death, Moshe Yaalon said: "I think that their responses alone yesterday show they understand that it is getting closer to them."
Yaalon said in a speech that the army's killing of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin in a Gaza City missile attack on Monday had dealt a "significant blow" to the radical Islamic movement.
Arafat denounced the killing of Yassin as a "barbaric crime" while Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, vowed to make Israel "pay very dearly".
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