Jackson to ask Hizbollah for evidence on Israelis

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060903/pl_nm/mideast_jackson_dc

Jackson to ask Hizbollah for evidence on Israelis

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights leader
Jesse Jackson said on Sunday that the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah could help bring about a prisoner swap with
Israel if it gave evidence that its two Israeli captives are alive.


Jackson, a Democrat who has helped arrange several prisoner exchanges over the years, returned to Beirut late on Saturday after talks in Israel with Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Ofer Dekel, Israel's chief negotiator on the prisoners.

He told Reuters he would have another meeting on Monday with a representative of Hizbollah, which captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12 and said it wanted to exchange them for Lebanese and Arabs in Israeli prisons.

"The Israelis want some physical evidence, some verification, some sign of life," he told Reuters.

"That could break the deadlock and I think we are very close," he added in a telephone interview.

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1. I Hope He Is Successful

and hope Hizbollah did not kill the prisoners. The killing MUST stop!

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2. Amen.