Chapter 5. Listening In
Central Tel Aviv, Israel, January 5, 1996…
Early in the morning, a moment of relief filled the Kirya, the dun-colored military defense complex that sits in the center of Tel Aviv. Israel's top military and intelligence echelons had learned that less then 50 miles away, in a squalid Gaza refugee camp, the man behind one of the longest and deadliest stretches of terrorist attacks in a land not unaccustomed to violence was dead. He was Yehiya Ayyash, Hamas's master bomb maker, at the time Israel's most-wanted terrorist. Over a three-year period, Ayyash's lethal occupation left more than 100 people dead and another 500 seriously wounded. During his reign of terror, Ayyash had managed to escape the grasp of the Israeli military, ...
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