The Bush administration called Israel’s assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin “deeply troubling.” “We find the consequences of this action, in terms of raising tension and making it harder to pursue peace efforts — those are things of concern to us,” State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Monday.
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