Bassam Kantar, the brother of Samir Kantar, the longest-held Lebanese in Israel, imprisoned since 1979 for killing three Israelis, gestures as he holds a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a rally to commemorate the prisoner's day in the southern town of Khiam, Lebanon, Friday, May 23, 2008. Khiam is known for a notorious prison, where hundreds of Lebanese were allegedly held and tortured by Israel during its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in 2000. The prison was turned into a museum after Israel pulled out and then was damaged during July war in 2006. AP Photo logo AP Photo 17 months ago

Bassam Kantar, the brother of Samir Kantar, the longest-held Lebanese in Israel, imprisoned since 1979 for killing three Israelis, gestures as he holds a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a rally to commemorate the prisoner's day in the southern town of Khiam, Lebanon, Friday, May 23, 2008. Khiam is known for a notorious prison, where hundreds of Lebanese were allegedly held and tortured by Israel during its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in 2000. The prison was turned into a museum after Israel pulled out and then was damaged during July war in 2006.

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  1. Suspects accused of plotting attacks on behalf of Lebanon's Hezbollah group gesture as they arrive for the first day of trial in New Cairo, August 23, 2009. Egypt began the trial on Sunday of 26 men suspected of links with Lebanon's Hezbollah and who face charges that include planning attacks inside Egypt. The charges against the 26, read out in the emergency state security court, included giving information to a foreign organisation, planning attacks inside Egypt on tourist sites and the Suez Canal and possession of explosive material.
  2. Suspects accused of plotting attacks on behalf of Lebanon's Hezbollah group stand behind bars during the first day of their trial in New Cairo, August 23, 2009. Egypt began the trial on Sunday of 26 men suspected of links with Lebanon's Hezbollah and who face charges that include planning attacks inside Egypt. The charges against the 26, read out in the emergency state security court, included giving information to a foreign organisation, planning attacks inside Egypt on tourist sites and the Suez Canal and possession of explosive material.
  3. Egyptian relatives of of 26 suspected Hezbollah spies accused of plotting attacks for the Lebanese militant group, react as they wait outside state security emergency court, in New Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. The suspects are charged with spying for a foreign group, planning attacks against tourists and shipping in the Suez Canal and sending operatives to Gaza to help militant groups there.
  4. Some of the 26 suspected Hezbollah spies accused of plotting attacks for the Lebanese militant group, gessture as they arrive at state security emergency court, in New Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. The suspects are charged with spying for a foreign group, planning attacks against tourists and shipping in the Suez Canal and sending operatives to Gaza to help militant groups there.
  5. A Hezbollah supporter, holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah with the Arabic words reading: "I always promise victory" during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.
  6. Hezbollah supporters, gather at a square to listen to Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah who speaks via a video link, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.
  7. Hezbollah supporters, listen to the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah who speaks via a video link, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.
  8. Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters wave flags as they listen to their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech through a giant screen during a rally marking the third anniversary of the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, in Beirut's suburbs August 14, 2009.
  9. Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivers a televised speech during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Beirut on September 18, 2009. Quds Day, held each year on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is the brainchild of Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a display of solidarity with the Palestinians.
  10. A woman holds at portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on September 18, 2009. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a keynote address to the annual mass rally of solidarity with the Palestinians at Tehran university, saying the Holocaust was a 'myth' and Israel was on its way to collapse.
  11. Two Indonesian UN peacekeepers stand next to a huge portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the border with Israel in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh on September 12, 2009. UN peacekeepers were monitoring the Lebanese border with Israel on September 12, a day after rockets launched from south Lebanon slammed into Galilee, but the situation was 'calm,' a spokeswoman said.
  12. In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, an Israeli flag is seen in the Israeli town of Metulla, as on the other side of the border a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, top, and top commander Imad Mughniyeh, is seen displayed in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is only a matter of time.
  13. A Hezbollah supporter holds a poster of slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, left, as other hold a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.
  14. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (on screen) addresses supporters during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Beirut's suburbs September 18, 2009. Al-Quds Day, held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, is observed as a show of support for the Palestinian people.
  15. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah broadcasting on a giant screen from a secret location, speaks to thousands of supporters during a ceremony marking "Jerusalem Day" that was called for by the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the group's stronghold south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Nasrallah said no Arab state has the right to recognize Israel adding that his group will never recognize the Jewish state.
  16. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a rally marking the third anniversary of the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, in Beirut's suburbs August 14, 2009.

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