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Hezbollah And Israel Trade Prisoners

By Linda Gradstein
Published July 16, 2008 at 12:00 PM CDT

A long-delayed prisoner exchange took place Wednesday. Hezbollah turned over the remains of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for some notorious Lebanese prisoners and the remains of nearly 200 Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters.

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Linda Gradstein
Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.