Hezbollah delivers remains of two Israeli soldiers

Hezbollah delivers remains of two Israeli soldiers

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LEBANON/ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - Hezbollah handed the bodies of two Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross on Wednesday to be exchanged for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel in a deal viewed as a triumph by the Lebanese Shi'ite guerrilla group.

Many Israelis see it as a painful necessity, two years after the soldiers' capture sparked a 34-day war with Hezbollah that killed about 1,200 people in Lebanon and 159 Israelis.

Two black coffins were unloaded from a Hezbollah vehicle at a U.N. peacekeeping base on the Israel-Lebanon border after a Hezbollah official, Wafik Safa, disclosed for the first time that army reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were dead.

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This is an exchange of two dead soldiers for live prisoners.

It will be viewed as a victory for Hezbollah.

It will spark further violence.

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Originally posted by jsobecky


This is an exchange of two dead soldiers for live prisoners.

It will be viewed as a victory for Hezbollah.

It will spark further violence.

www.reuters.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

Why do you care? I thought you were a conservative?
A conservative who loves Jews? Honey most liberals are Jews, you don't make sence

[edit on 16-7-2008 by MemoryShock]