Hezbollah confirms planned swap
From Times Wire Reports
Hezbollah’s leader confirmed that his group will hand over two captured Israeli soldiers and information on a missing Israeli airman in exchange for five Lebanese prisoners held in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that he believes Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are dead. But Sheik Hassan Nasrallah called such comments speculation.
All the Lebanese prisoners to be freed by Israel are alive.
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