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Kuntar: Israel would have paid higher price for living soldiers
By Haaretz Service
Tags: IDF, Imad Mugniyah, Hezbollah 

Freed Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar said on Saturday that Israel would have paid a much higher price for the return of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser had one of them been alive after their capture.

Kuntar made his comments to Radio A-Shams, which broadcasts from Nazareth. He added that he will continue to work with Hezbollah in its struggle against Israel.

These statements come after a recent string of interviews, in which Kuntar has made combative remarks against Israel. In his first interview with Hezbollah's TV station Al-Manar, Kuntar urged the entire Arab world to continue to fight for Palestine's freedom, and also called on Lebanon to fight for Israel's withdrawal from the Shaba Farms.
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Kuntar had been the longest-held Lebanese prisoner in Israel until his release on Wednesday. He was convicted of murdering three Israelis in a 1979 terror attack in Nahariya.

Kuntar and four Hezbollah guerrillas were freed in exchange for the bodies of IDF reservists Regev and Goldwasser, captured by Hezbollah in July 2006 in a cross-border raid that sparked the Second Lebanon War.

The exchange was mediated over the course of 18 months by a United Nations-appointed German official.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah will make more attempts to kidnap IDF soldiers, according to statements made earlier Saturday by the deputy head of the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, Sheikh Naim Kassam, Army Radio reported.

According to the report, Kassam made the statement during an interview with a Qatari newspaper, in which he said that Hezbollah is in a state of war with Israel, which "continues to infiltrate the skies of Lebanon and poses a serious threat."

Kassam added that Hezbollah is still obligated to revenge the killing of former senior Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mugniyah, who perished in a car bombing in Damascus in February.

Israel and Hezbollah completed a prisoner swap deal on Wednesday in which Hezbollah returned the bodies of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. In return Israel handed over terrorist Samir Kuntar and four Hezbollah militants, as well as 197 bodies.

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      1.   Change Needed 13:55  |  Ayman 19/07/08
      2.   Great excuse for Israel to start beating Hizb into pulp 14:11  |  Colonel 19/07/08
      3.   Hezbollah 14:15  |  Millicent 19/07/08
      4.   Tit-for-tat? It`s terrorism, plain and simple 14:22  |  Softwalker 19/07/08
      5.   `Olmertized` or `Hypnotized`...... 14:29  |  Dagma 19/07/08
      6.   raison d`etre 14:32  |  Sarah 19/07/08
      7.   If Hezbollah and Lebanon wants to ... 14:34  |  michael 19/07/08
      8.   Indeed a Change is badly needed...... 14:39  |  Dolly 19/07/08
      9.   To Ayman 14:40  |  hanoi 19/07/08
      10.   A decision that might cost many victims. 14:47  |  Jean Van Daem 19/07/08
      11.   I believe this Terrorist is 100% correct Kidnapping will B repeat 14:48  |  Alan SA 19/07/08
      12.   TIme to take out Nastyrallah, KIdnap? Make him diet? 14:49  |  The Equalizer 19/07/08
      13.   Israel Should Take a Few Hizzbulla Hostages 15:11  |  Jane 19/07/08
      14.   If it came from Nasrallah, I would believe it 15:12  |  Natallie Durson 19/07/08
      15.   I couldn`t agree more 15:15  |  Clickfool 19/07/08
      16.   Hizbollah`s justified position 15:16  |  Clickfool 19/07/08
      17.   Imagine that 15:17  |  Guy From NYC 19/07/08
      18.   More abductions 15:21  |  Ron 19/07/08
      19.   Lebanon is a stooge of Iran 15:40  |  Conroy 19/07/08
      20.   Hezbollah vows to carry out more abductions of IDF troops 15:46  |  Jack Kay 19/07/08
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      22.   Olmert should NEVER have been allowed to govern 15:53  |  The Threadmill. 19/07/08
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      30.   #7 Michael 16:21  |  Scott G 19/07/08
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      35.   Olmert`s Chamberlain Policy 17:23  |  Craig 19/07/08
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