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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

More Sad News

For the second time in less than a week, sad news about MIA heroes...this time, the news brings a heartbreaking answer on the fate of two Israeli Heroes:

Hezbollah Returns Bodies to Israel in Exchange for Lebanese Militants

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
NAQOURA, Lebanon — Israel freed a notorious Lebanese attacker and four others Wednesday after Hezbollah handed over two black coffins with the bodies of Israeli soldiers, a dramatic prisoner swap that closes a painful chapter from the 2006 war in Lebanon.

The five — including Samir Kantar, who had been serving multiple life terms in Israel for a grisly 1979 attack — were brought home in International Committee for the Red Cross vehicles and received a red-carpet welcome in this coastal border town.

In Israel, family and friends outside the homes of the Israeli soldiers burst into tears when TV images showed Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas taking the coffins out of a black van.


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