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Jailed Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar (Archives)
Last update - 11:58 12/06/2008
Report: Israel may free Lebanon terrorist Samir Kuntar this month
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel, Samir Kuntar 

Jailed Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar has been told to pack up his belongings and prepare to return to Beirut in the near future, the pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper a-Diar reported Thursday.

The report said that Kuntar, who has been jailed in Israel since killing a family during a terror attack in the northern town of Nahariyah in 1979, would be returned to Lebanon as part of a prisoner swap between Israel and the Hezbollah guerilla group.

According to the report, a number of other Lebanese militants would also be included in the deal, which could take place by the end of the month.
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Kuntar has refused interviews on Israeli ground, according to the report, and has said he would respond to media inquiries only upon return to Beirut.

Kuntar was convicted in 1979 for killing four people, including a father, his child and two policemen.

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      1.   Release him, then lop his head off 11:01  |  Mark 12/06/08
      2.   It would be a big mitzvah for someone to kill him ... 11:26  |  Jew 12/06/08
      3.   HOW MANY PALESTINIAN FAMILIES DID ISRAEL KILL? 11:27  |  TripleJump 12/06/08
      4.   like it or not, like him or not... 11:36  |  ClearCut 12/06/08
      5.   Send Israeli peaceniks together with him,they deserve each other 11:38  |  Absolute Sweden 12/06/08
      6.   Kuntara freedom equals death warrent for Dozens of innocents 11:39  |  CM 12/06/08
      7.   if true, the question is 11:55  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 12/06/08
      8.   Kuntar is being traded for Goldwasser and Regev 12:24  |  Natallie Durson 12/06/08
      9.   Stop the deals for bodies 12:32  |  dyinglikeflies 12/06/08
      10.   Arabs never arrest terrorists, why should Israel? 12:53  |  Boston Liberal 12/06/08
      11.   Trimple Jump - Here`s the difference 13:22  |  Elihu 12/06/08
      12.   Natallie Durson 13:50  |  Nir 12/06/08
      13.   Only release the scum if Regev & Goldwasser are alive 13:57  |  Free Gilad Shalit 12/06/08
      14.   #2 14:02  |  Keops 12/06/08
      15.   Clearcut #4 is not thinking clearly 14:05  |  Free Gilad Shalit 12/06/08
      16.   aborted 14:27  |  SW 12/06/08
      17.   Free Gilad Shalit 14:34  |  ClearCut 12/06/08
      18.   TRIPLE JUMP DELIBERATELY? NONE! LEAVE THAT TO YOUR BROTHERS 14:54  |  PETER SM 12/06/08
      19.   WELCOME HOME KUNTAR, BRAVO 15:00  |  indrajaya 12/06/08
      20.   SHAME on you Olmert, SHAME on you Israel... 15:02  |  Stuart 12/06/08
      21.   Living against living, deads against deads 15:05  |  Ordallie Nutcase 12/06/08
      22.   CLEARCUT SO many children have deliberately been placed in danger 15:12  |  PETER SM 12/06/08
      23.   FREE SAMIR KUNTAR NOW!!! 15:20  |  Michael 12/06/08
      24.   WHAT Would Arabs have done to him if the situation was reversed? 15:27  |  PETER SM 12/06/08
      25.   The face of evil 15:40  |  Gilles 12/06/08
      26.   blood on the hands of the politicians 15:59  |  Vogel 12/06/08
      27.   Indrajaya 16:20  |  marbpl 12/06/08
      28.   Read what Samir Kuntar did! 16:49  |  Gili 12/06/08
      29.   Kuntar the man who bashed a toddler`s head in 16:53  |  Jo 12/06/08
      30.   He looks very well, a bit overweight, no sign of sorrow 17:03  |  Arthur 12/06/08
      31.   FREEING ALL THE ARAB MURDERERS DOWN TO THE LAST ONE OR BELIEVING 17:07  |  glenna 12/06/08
      32.   #25: "Normal human beings would ... " 17:14  |  Andreas 12/06/08
      33.   Too soft 17:26  |  Urso 12/06/08
      34.   Correction for Andreas 17:48  |  Gilles 12/06/08
      35.   Freeing Lebanon Freedom Fighter 17:58  |  Edithann 12/06/08
      36.   to 32 in Basel Switzerland 18:00  |  Goliath 12/06/08
      37.   Go ahead and look into the face of the devil himself. Read 18:01  |  common sense 12/06/08
      38.   BY MURDERING ABEL`S THE FOOLS ARE REAPING MURDER ON THEMSELF`S; 18:06  |  glenna 12/06/08
      39.   KUNTAR IS A HERO, BARUCH, A CRIMINAL 18:17  |  indrajaya 12/06/08
      40.   Suggestion for Indrajaya 18:17  |  Gilles 12/06/08
      41.   24# 18:27  |  Keops 12/06/08
      42.   Monster 18:28  |  MR 12/06/08
      43.   HARETZ YOU ARE DESPICABLE - TAKE AWAY KUNTARS PICTURE 19:09  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      44.   Why HAARETZ RELY UPON "pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper a-Diar"? 19:18  |  Vittorio 12/06/08
      45.   If freeing the devil is the pathway to peace... 19:35  |  David 12/06/08
      46.   ISRAEL WON`T RELEASE THIS MAN 19:59  |  indrajaya 12/06/08
      47.   He is a monster 20:13  |  Adam Glantz 12/06/08
      48.   Indrajaya if you`re proud of Kuntar then you`re scum, like him 20:23  |  x-ray 12/06/08
      49.   Thanks to Indrajaya 20:45  |  Alex Siu 12/06/08
      50.   Resemblance to another mustached monster -"Doctor" Josef Mengele? 20:50  |  just noticed picture 12/06/08
      51.   #49 - Well Done Alex! 20:57  |  JP 12/06/08
      52.   Alex Siu - Re: Indrajaya 21:05  |  Michael 12/06/08
      53.   # 49, ALEX SIU 21:17  |  indrajaya 12/06/08
      54.   kuntar can`t deny it 21:18  |  arsene hick 12/06/08
      55.   # 39, FAKE INDRAJAYA 21:37  |  indrajaya 12/06/08
      56.   @4"9 21:38  |  indrajaya 12/06/08
      57.   DAFKA YOU WON`T ERASE HIS PICTURE. 21:39  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      58.   TAKE AWAY THE BLOODY PICTURE OF THIS SWINE 21:43  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      59.   AGAIN WITHDRAW THE PICTURE OF THIS PIG 21:43  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      60.   HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF WHAT THIS... 21:45  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      61.   CANCEL THE ARTICLE & THE PICTURE 21:46  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      62.   AGAIN WITHDRAW THE PICTURE OF THIS PIG 21:47  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      63.   HAARETZ YOU ARE WICKED - WITHDRAW THE PICTURE OF THIS SCUM 21:49  |  Miriam Ashkelon 12/06/08
      64.   Alex Sio $#49; indrajaya #53 21:53  |  Boris 12/06/08
      65.   If Lebanon welcomes that monster, let them have him 22:00  |  Richard S 12/06/08
      66.   Looking into the eyes of a murderer 22:01  |  Richard S 12/06/08
      67.   #53 indraja: who cares? clearly you do 22:05  |  Richard S 12/06/08
      68.   #53 Indrajaya`s point:her bile and babykiller worship is all hers 22:05  |  JP 12/06/08
      69.   Unpopular but probably correct move 22:29  |  Aphemia 12/06/08
      70.   #69 - Aphemia 23:12  |  JP 12/06/08
      71.   @48, x-rays, please give names of decent muslims who consider 23:17  |  vladimir 12/06/08
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