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Militant Samir Kantar enters Lebanon in swap
Jul 16 2008, AP

Lebanese militant Samir Kantar and four other prisoners have crossed into a buffer zone between Lebanon and Israel.Their release is part of a dramatic prisoner swap that also involved the return of two dead Israeli soldiers to the Jewish state.Kantar has...

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