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Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a giant screen during a news conference in Beirut suburbs July 2, 2008. Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had agreed to a U.N.-mediated deal to exchange prisoners with Israel and expected the swap to take place around the middle of this month.

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a giant screen during a news conference in Beirut suburbs July 2, 2008. Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had agreed to a U.N.-mediated deal to exchange prisoners with Israel and expected the swap to take place around the middle of this month.

An image grab taken from the Hezbollah-run Manar TV on July 2, 2008, shows Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite Muslim Lebanese group Hezbollah, speaking druing a televised press conference in Beirut. Nasrallah spoke about a planned prisoner swap between his militant group and Israel.

Map shows region in southern Iraq, where Hezbollah instructors allegedly trained Shiite militiamen; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76.2 mm.

Esraa, the wife of Maher Kourani one of four Hezbollah guerrillas captured by Israeli troops during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, talks on the phone, as she holds a portrait for her husband with Arabic words reads:"The freedom for our prisoners," at her house in the village of Yater, south of Lebanon, on Sunday June 29, 2008. Israel's Cabinet voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of an emotionally charged deal to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two soldiers declared earlier in the day to be dead. Hezbollah said Sunday that the Israeli government's approval of a prisoner swap shows the strength of the Lebanese militant group as its supporters and allies began preparations for major celebrations.

Hassan, the father of Maher Kourani one of four Hezbollah guerrillas captured by Israeli troops during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, holds a portrait for his son with Arabic words reading:"The freedom for our prisoners," at his house in the village of Yater, south of Lebanon, on Sunday June 29, 2008. Israel's Cabinet voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favor of an emotionally charged deal to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two soldiers declared earlier in the day to be dead. Hezbollah said Sunday that the Israeli government's approval of a prisoner swap shows the strength of the Lebanese militant group as its supporters and allies began preparations for major celebrations.

Israeli soldier Eldad Regev, 26, captured by Hezbollah guerrillas, is seen in this photo released by the familiy. A senior Israeli government official said Sunday, June 29, 2008, the Cabinet has overwhelmingly agreed to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of Regev and the other Israeli captured soldier Ehud Goldwasser. (AP Photo) ISRAEL OUT.

A Hezbollah militant erects his group's flag 26 April 2007 on a billboard bearing a large photograph of the two Israeli soldiers it is holding, Ehud Goldwasser (R) and Eldad Regev (L), on the outskirts of the village of Aita al-Shaab, on the Lebanese border with the Jewish state, near where the soldiers were seized. A prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah is imminent, a Lebanese official said today, with the Shiite group set to hand over two captured Israeli soldiers in exchange for several militants.

Hezbollah supporters and Lebanese policemen, look at a car of the U.S. diplomat's motorcade being towed by a Lebanese police vehicle, after it was attacked by Hezbollah's Shiite supporters when the U.S. Charge d'Affaires Michele Sison was inspecting some social and educational projects financed by the U.S. government in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold, south of Lebanon, Wednesday June 18, 2008. Sison was having lunch at the residence of Abdullah Bitar, the head of Nabatiyeh's business organization, when about 100 Hezbollah supporters gathered outside the house and began shouting anti-U.S. slogans, witnesses said.

Nasim Nisr, left, waves near a poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, right, as he arrives in his home southern village of Bazouriyeh, Lebanon, Sunday, June 1, 2008. Nisr was born to a Jewish Lebanese mother and a Shiite father. He was released Sunday after spending six years in prison in Israel on charges of spying for Hezbollah.

Freed prisoner Nessim Nisr (C) gestures as Hezbollah militants bring doves to be released during celebrations in the southern Lebanese town of Naqura on June 1, 2008. Israel freed and then deported Nisr, a Lebanese-born convicted Hezbollah spy, while the Shiite militant group handed over the remains of Israeli soldiers, sparking talk of a wider exchange. Nisr was released after more than six years in prison on charges of collaborating with Hezbollah and then handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Rosh Hanikra crossing point on Israel's border with Lebanon.

A Lebanese Hezbollah supporter holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a celebration in Naqoura village in south Lebanon to mark the release of Nissim Nasser after a six-year jail term in Israel June 1, 2008. Hezbollah said on Sunday it had released the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 war with Israel, which let go a Lebanese man who had completed a jail term on charges of spying for the group.

Hezbollah fighters, salute upon the arrival of Nasim Nisr, a Lebanese man convicted in Israel of spying, during a ceremony held by Hezbollah, in the south Lebanon coastal town of Naqoura on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Nisr was born to a Jewish Lebanese mother and a Shiite father. He was released Sunday after spending six years in prison in Israel on charges of spying for Hezollah.

Nissim Nasser raises hands with Hezbollah senior official Sheikh Nabil Qawouk (L) and his mother Valentine (R) upon his arrival at Naqoura village in south Lebanon June 1, 2008. Hezbollah said on Sunday it had released the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 war with Israel, which let go a Lebanese man who had completed a jail term on charges of spying for the group.