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| Report: One of captive soldiers dead |
| 2007-07-29 |
| One of the two Israeli reservists held by Hizbullah for more than a year has died and the other is still alive, the Lebanese daily newspaper an-Nahar reported Saturday. An-Nahar quoted unnamed German diplomatic sources as saying officials in Berlin tried to obtain from Free Patriotic Movement leader Michael Aoun "some information" about Ehud Goldwasser, 31, and Eldad Regev, 26. "Aoun refused to get involved in this issue. However, security agencies there understood that one of the two prisoners is still alive and the second had passed away," the report said without further elaboration. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post an Israeli government spokesman said, "the Israeli government doesn't respond to reports made in the Lebanese media." Aoun is allied with Hizbullah, which leads a campaign backed by Syria and Iran against Premier Fouad Saniora's majority government. Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is expected to discuss the plight of the Israeli soldiers with Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday, according to a report by the Lebanese paper Al Diyar, although no other source has confirmed that a meeting between the two will take place. Hizbullah had said it was prepared to swap the soldiers for Lebanese and Arab prisoners held by Israel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The frecnh hostages in lebanon during the 80's were held up in dire conditions (interestingly, often in mosque's basements or cellars IIRC), one of them dying painfully of cancer without any medication, including painkillers. The world pays attention to the Club Gitmo, the "gulag of our time", but I shudder to think how Gilad Shalit (who's a french bi-national, by the way) or those two soldiers are held by those savages. If that man is dead, I'm sorry for him, but SteveS is right, he didn't "die", he was murdered, and killed by ill conditions and mistreatment. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-29 11:51 |
| #2 One of the two Israeli reservists held by Hizbullah for more than a year has died And when we say 'died', we mean 'murdered'. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-07-29 00:45 |
| #1 If confirmed, my condolences to the Soldier's family. Rest well. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-07-29 00:27 |