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Report: Hezbollah says Ron Arad died in 1988
By Reuters
Tags: Lebanon, Hezbollah, Ron Arad 

An Israel Air Force airman captured in Lebanon in 1986 escaped two years later but probably died while trying to reach Israel on foot, the Hezbollah guerrilla group said in a report published by Maariv, an Israeli daily, on Wednesday.

Hezbollah gave Israel the secret report on Ron Arad's fate as part of a UN-mediated prisoner swap in July. That deal went ahead though Israel, which officially assumes Arad to be alive, dismissed the Hezbollah report as "absolutely unsatisfactory".

Arad was seized by Shi'ite militiamen after bailing out of his crippled warplane over Lebanon. Maariv quoted the Hezbollah report as saying that Arad was first held in Beirut and then moved to the eastern village of Nabi Cheit.
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"The Israeli pilot escaped from his holding cell on the night between May 4-5, 1988 and headed south, toward what was then the occupied (Israeli) security zone" in south Lebanon, the Hezbollah report said, according to Maariv's front-page story.

"He was in a remote, mountainous and barren area where people rarely set foot. It is possible that he collapsed and, because of natural factors, could not keep going, or that he was injured, suffered fractures, haemorrhaging, fever, poisoning, thirst, a fall from a high cliff, or that he even fell victim to a predatory animal or walked into a minefield."

The report rejected Israeli allegations that Hezbollah or Iran, its main foreign patron, was holding Arad, Maariv said.

In the July swap, Israel released Samir Qantar, a jailed Lebanese guerrilla it had long described as a "bargaining chip" for Arad's return.

Hezbollah has refused any public comment on the Arad report.

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      1.   Hezbollah and Arad 13:24  |  Brod 08/10/08
      2.   Trying to cover up his murder, that`s all. 13:52  |  Joe Sittizen 08/10/08
      3.   Hezbollah report. 13:56  |  David Nigel Braham 08/10/08
      4.   What did you expect??? 14:21  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 08/10/08
      5.   Hezbullah is beneath contempt: always lying 15:45  |  x-ray 08/10/08
      6.   Did anyone in Israel believe that he was still alive...???? 16:04  |  Swiss (Dino) 08/10/08
      7.   response to #1,#2,#3 16:31  |  Liban 08/10/08
      8.   Alive untill `88? 16:47  |  Hans 08/10/08
      9.   Hans 17:11  |  Persian Kitty 08/10/08
      10.   To # 7 17:19  |  Hans 08/10/08
      11.   and we shall belive the words of murders ? 17:28  |  ANUAR AL SADAT 08/10/08
      12.   # Liban It makes no difference 17:31  |  DISRAELI 08/10/08
      13.   To # 9 17:54  |  Hans 08/10/08
      14.   I can believe the attempt to escape, but... 18:25  |  Richard S 08/10/08
      15.   More lies and Kadima, Livni & Barak make more deals 18:29  |  Shepherd 08/10/08
      16.   Richard, Everything After "We Do Not Know... 20:15  |  Reader 08/10/08
      17.   Hezballah doesn`t torture and murder prisoners of war 21:45  |  Philip 08/10/08
      18.   naive 23:25  |  crazyed 08/10/08
      19.   No.17 Philip 23:44  |  Henry Blofeld 08/10/08
      20.   Arad`s boes would speak 00:22  |  Dean 09/10/08
      21.   Hezbollah Is Guessing 00:37  |  Jeff Northridge 09/10/08
      22.   #10 send this link to your prime minister 01:13  |  liban 09/10/08
      23.   #10, HANS, abu gharib and so on then? 02:30  |  VIPER 09/10/08
      24.   Arad...only G-d knows what happened 05:09  |  Connie 09/10/08
      25.   To # 23 07:31  |  Hans 09/10/08
      26.   To # 22 08:37  |  Hans 09/10/08
      27.   Know your enemy 09:53  |  K 09/10/08
      28.   # hans 10:29  |  David 09/10/08
      29.   Rediculous 12:00  |  james hazan 09/10/08
      30.   #28 david 12:15  |  k 09/10/08
      31.   To # 28 13:29  |  Hans 09/10/08
      32.   #19 Henry Blofeld 14:44  |  Joe 09/10/08
      33.   To # 32 17:02  |  Hans 09/10/08
      34.   #6 Swiss 18:35  |  Victoria 09/10/08
      35.   USUAL "Its somebody else`s fault" Have they ever been responsible 19:38  |  PETER SM 09/10/08
      36.   viper,aborigines,,,,,,,,,,and you have the nerve to call somone 20:53  |  terrornator 09/10/08
      37.   american kitty,rachel corrie got what she went after! 20:55  |  terrornator 09/10/08
      38.   Who can trust these liars? 22:17  |  x-ray 09/10/08
      39.   #23, HANS, proof? 00:15  |  VIPER 10/10/08
      40.   They probably organised a lynch when he escaped 00:15  |  lily 10/10/08
      41.   And whom was fool enought to think he still lived? 03:22  |  Mark Lincoln 10/10/08
      42.   they killed him no matter what they say murdering barbarians 11:47  |  ralph 10/10/08
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