Nation & World News
Hamas vows to avenge slaying
A successor to the fallen
leader was appointed
but remains unnamed
By Joel Greenberg
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
JERUSALEM—Tens of thousands of
Palestinians poured into the streets of
Gaza City on Sunday for the funeral of
Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the slain leader of
Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as the militant
group chose a successor without reveal
ing his identity.
Rantisi, who was killed in an Israeli
helicopter missile strike near his home
Saturday, was the second Hamas leader
to be assassinated in less than a month
after Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a founder of
the group, was killed in a similar strike
March 22.
Israel has vowed to hunt down the
entire Hamas leadership, and fears of
another assassination prompted the
. group not to disclose whom it had cho
sen to replace Rantisi.
"All 1 can say is that all positions in
the leadership of! lamas are occupied,"
said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior
Hamas leader. "Last night there was a
meeting of the council, we selected, and
the position is filled."
Al-Zahar did not comment on me
dia reports that he was chosen.
At the funeral, Rantisi's body,
wrapped in a green flag of Hamas, was
borne on a stretcher from Gaza's main
mosque with the remains of two body
guards killed with him when his car was
struck by two missiles Saturday night.
"Yesterday they said that they killed
Rantisi to weaken Hamas," Ismail
Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, told a crowd
of thousands at the mosque. "Ihey are
dreaming. Every time a martyr falls,
Hamas grows stronger."
Mourners reached out to touch
Rantisi's lacerated face, and others
showered his body with flower petals as
it was carried down Gaza's main boule
vard to Martyrs Cemetery.
"Rantisi, lion of Hamas," the crowds
chanted. "We are all Rantisi. With our
souls and blood we will sacrifice for
you, Rantisi." Mourners waved Hamas
flags, the black banners of Islamic Jihad
and die yellow colors of-the main
stream Fatah group as they marched for
hours through the streets. Armed men
unleashed bursts of gunfire into the air.
In the West Bank, demonstrators
clashed with Israeli soldiers and held
protest marches in several towns and
villages.
A 14-year-old was shot in the head
and critically wounded in a stone
throwing clash at the village of Deir
Abu Mashal, near Ramallah, and in
Bethlehem a teenager throwing bottles
at soldiers was shot in the stomach,
Palestinians said.
In Nablus, demonstrators burned ef
figies of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon and President Bush, calling for
revenge
Inside Israel, the security forces re
mained on high alert for retaliation,
with a beefed-up police presence in ma
jor cities. Israelis have been bracing for a
major attack since Yassin was killed,
and in recent weeks several attempted
bombings have been thwarted.
At the weekly meeting of his Cabinet,
Sharon congratulated the security
forces for killing Rantisi and said he
would pursue parallel tracks of diplo
macy and more strikes on Palestinian
militants.
"This policy of making an effort to
advance a political process on the one
hand, and on the other hand to hit the
terrorist organizations and their leaders
will continue," he said.
(cj 2004, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services. Chicago Tribune
correspondent Muhammad al-Waheidi
contributed to this report from Gaza.
Troop casualty rate
rivals Vietnam War
Casualties in Iraq spiked
in the first part of April,
with 98 dead this month
By Drew Brown
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — With fighting
in Iraq now at its worst, the num
ber of U.S. troops killed by enemy
fire has reached the highest level
since the Vietnam War.
The first part of April has been
the bloodiest period so far for U.S.
troops in Iraq. There have been 98
deaths by hostile fire so far this
month, more than in the opening
two weeks of the invasion, when
82 Americans were killed in action.
The last time U.S. troops experi
enced a two-week loss such as this
one in Iraq was October 1971, two
years before U.S. ground involve
ment ended in Vietnam.
There are 135,000 U.S. troops in
Iraq. Nearly 700 American troops
have died since the beginning of
the war. As of Sunday, 503 had
been reported killed in action. At
least 3,630 more have been
wounded.
The Vietnam War started with a
slower death rate. The United
States had been involved in Viet
nam for six years before total fatal
ities surpassed 500 in 1965, the
year President Lyndon B. Johnson
ordered a massive buildup of
forces. There were 20,000 troops
in Vietnam by the end of 1964.
There were more than 200,000 a
year later.
By the end of 1966, U.S. combat
deaths in Vietnam had reached
3,910. By 1968, the peak of U.S. in
volvement, there were more than
500,000 troops in the country.
During the same two-week period
of April that year, 752 U.S. soldiers
died, according to National
Archives records.
Gunfire has been the biggest
killer of U.S. troops, followed
closely by improvised explosive
devices. The two account for more
than 250 deaths.
(c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune
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You're fiercely determined to succeed,
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Set goals you can't achieve in one
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