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Il primo quarto del prossimo secolo vedra' l'eliminazione dell'entita' sionista e lo stabilimento dello Stato Palestinese su tutto il territorio della Palestina. Il forte non rimarra' forte per sempre e il debole non restera' debole per sempre. Le cose cambieranno. (Ahmed Yassin ad una conferenza del 1998)
"Abbiamo scelto questa strada: finirà con il martirio o la vittoria".
A.Yassin
Dichiaratamente nel mirino di Israele, almeno dal giugno 2003, era riuscito a sfuggire una volta alle bombe delle forze aeree israeliane che attaccarono, nel settembre dello stesso anno, un palazzo di Gaza nel quale si riteneva si trovasse. Yāsīn rimase leggermente ferito ed ai giornalisti che lo intervistarono in ospedale disse che "il tempo proverà quanto l'atteggiamento criminale (di Israele) non riuscirà ad eliminare Hamās, i cui leader aspirano al martirio e non paventano la morte. Il jihād - aggiunse in quella circostanza - continuerà fino alla vittoria o fino al martirio".
Yāsīn non fece mai molto da allora per nascondersi o per cautelarsi da nuovi attentati. La sua residenza a Gaza è stata visitata da diversi giornalisti ed egli stesso non ha mai rinunciato, fino all'ultimo, a recarsi quotidianamente - secondo una consolidata routine - in moschea a pregare.
Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin
Base of Operation: Iraq
Founding Philosophy: The Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin was a previously unknown group that claimed responsibility for the killing of four U.S. security contractors in Fallujah, Iraq.
In March 2004, masked men ambushed a convoy of security contractors from the firm Blackwater Security Consulting as they drove through the restive streets of Fallujah, a hotbed of Iraqi resistance. The assailants raked the convoy with gunfire and threw grenades in to the vehicles, killing four of the six passengers. After the attack, the bodies of some of the victims were dragged through the streets by a mob, mutilated, and hung from a bridge.
Shortly after the killings, the Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin claimed responsibility for the attack. The group said it was in response to the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin several days earlier by the Israeli military. Yassin was the spiritual leader of HAMAS, a Palestinian group responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks. In a statement of claim, the group remarked that the killings were “a gift from the people of Fallujah to the people of Palestine and the family of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin who was assassinated by the criminal Zionists." The group also called for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but did not elucidate a specific ideology beyond these statements. While the ambush of the contractors was well-planned, it is unlikely that the Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin had been established before this incident. The ambush was just one in a series of attacks by multiple perpetrators on U.S. military and affiliated targets in Fallujah. It is possible that the Brigades took the opportunity to claim this incident as a way of venting anger over Yassin’s death, and the actual perpetrators of this attack may not have been responsible for the public statements of claim. While it can’t be proven that the Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin was not actually an established organization, the group has not been responsible for further attacks, and has not released any other public statements.
Current Goals: Whether or not the Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin was the actual perpetrator of the ambush incident, the group has not been heard from since, and is unlikely to re-emerge in the future.