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Yahya Ayyash  

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  • The Palestinian Yahya Ayyash (aka The Engineer), a notorious Hamas commander, is said to have been as greatly loved by Palestinians as he was hated by Israelis. Ayyash achieved a near mythical status as a man who always escaped detection by Israel's intelligence service. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Ayyash, Yahya (1966–1996)]

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