The New York Times · 30 June 2002

CP-2002-095

The Most Wanted Palestinian

Qeis Adwan started as a stone-throwing child in the first intifada and ended up as Israel’s public enemy No. 1.

By Elizabeth Rubin

Scan 852 × 992 pixels

Transcribed from the clipping

At age 7, Qeis Adwan (far right) was still playing little-boy games with guns. By the time he was 12 or 13, having experienced the first intifada, in 1987, he had become dedicated to Hamas. | At 17, Qeis was a top high-school student, memorizing long Koran passages and taking the Hamas motto to heart. | At 23, thanks to the … terrorist mastermind.

Cite this clipping

More from The New York Times

• The Maine Colony in PalestineThe New York Times · 12 November 1866
• Jewish Colonization in PalestineThe New York Times · 9 December 1883
• Jewish State in Palestine OpposedThe New York Times · 9 July 1897
• ZIONIST CONGRESS IN BASELThe New York Times · 31 August 1897
• ROME FEARS THE ZIONISTSThe New York Times · 12 September 1897
• PROGRESS OF ZIONISMThe New York Times · 16 December 1901
• 852 more from this paper in the full text →

More from the 2000s

• Don’t forget it’s an Israeli occupationThe Daily Press · 1 January 2002
• Soothing Israel’s FearsThe New York Times · 7 January 2002
• Israel, in Reprisal for Killings, Razes Gaza Refugee HomesThe New York Times · 11 January 2002
• Refugees and Reparations in the MideastThe New York Times · 13 January 2002
• Israeli missiles strike naval baseThe Greenville News · 13 January 2002
• Friendship of Palestinian, architect defies oddsThe Bismarck Tribune · 17 January 2002
• All 516 clippings from the 2000s →