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| | Throngs attend burial of master bombmaker (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Hamas leaders and Palestinian self-rule Authority officials led the mourners, estimated by reporters to exceed 100,000, in a 90-minute march behind Ayyash's coffin from Gaza City's Palestine Mosque to a cemetery on the outskirts of town. |
 | | Ayyash, known as the "Engineer,"was said by Israel to be the brains behind a wave of suicide bomb attacks against the Jewish state that killed nearly 80 people. |
 | | At the top of Israel's wanted list, Ayyash was pursued over the last three years, the latter of which his wife and son Bara', 3, joined him in hiding. |
| www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/01/07/mideast.html (510 words) |
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