Tuesday, April 20, 2004

back to philly and assassinations in israel

i'm back. s.f. was great. i managed to dig up a couple of old law school friends and we managed to have a fairly good time together despite rain and a flat tire. but now i'm back.

while i was in s.f., i got wind of israel's latest assassination. the other day the israeli army killed abdel aziz rantisi, leader of hamas. rantisi had only been leader of the group for a short time. hamas' prior leader (and founder) sheik ahmed yassin was assassinate approximately four weeks ago. so now hamas says it has a new leader, but will not make his name public for fear he will be killed. personally, i was expecting them to announce that their new leader is ariel sharon.