No terrorist is safe

Editor: I would like to comment on the editorial "Shed no tears for Yassin." (Bulletin, March 26) I agree totally with the view expressed in this editorial and would like to add a couple of things:

First, I don't like the word "assassination" when referring to terrorist leaders who are eliminated the way Yassin was. My English vocabulary is rather limited but in Spanish it would be called "ajusticiar" (meaning "to make justice by killing somebody who deserves to die"). I don't know the English equivalent but I think the word "assassinate" suits more what the terrorists do.

Second, since the elimination of Yassin, the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Aqsa and the rest their bunch, are getting to taste their own medicine. If they want to make the civilized and democratic world live in terror, I hope that after the Israeli government announced that no terrorist leader is safe, they are going to know how it feels to be always under the menace.

And one more thing, I hope the American people will not follow the footsteps of the Spaniards, with all that Richard Clarke has said. If they were to withdraw their support for George Bush on election day, it could be sending a wrong signal to Al-Qaida et al.

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