JERUSALEM -- Sunday Israel announced it had successfully
assassinated Hamas master bomb-maker Muhanad al-Taher, a move it says will greatly increase its security and incited call for vengeance by Hamas. Most intelligence analysts now say the race is on to find Hamas' master bomb-maker-maker.
"This man was responsible for the killing of more than 100 Israelis," said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "And as soon as we find the guy that made him, we will all be that much safer from terrorism."
Hamas vowed revenge for the killling, promising to make more bomb-makers and threatened to make another bomb-maker-maker, a claim many experts say is laughable. "There is no way Hamas could come up with a bomb-maker-maker-maker," said one Washington-based analyst. "It would take a well-funded, first-world state to start something like that."