Is there any video or pics of the "kidnapped" Israeli

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soldiers?


Just wondering if they've been displayed so we know how they're doing.

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1. I doubt it...

If yr talking about the two captured by Hezbollah, I kind of suspect they're already dead. And if they were alive, video and pics of them in captivity is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, not that Hezbollah would give a rats arse about the Geneva Conventions anyway....

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2. Here's something about them....

Lebanese FM: IDF troops abducted by Hezbollah 'in good health'

The two Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted by Hezbollah on July 12 are "in good health," Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said Sunday.

On the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Jerusalem, senior officials believe Israel has an American nod to continue operations against Hezbollah at least until next Sunday.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741445.html

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3. That's good, but

at the risk of sounding over-the-top racist, I put a question mark after it.

Salloukh, like Khalifeh (the Health Ministry head that's been releasing all the civilian casualty numbers) is Shi'ite. They belong to different parties (Salloukh variously described as Amal in Feb. '06 or independent in summer '05), but both were among the 5 that walked out and almost brought down Siniora's government when they objected to Hezbollah being described as a 'militia' that needed to be 'disarmed'. They returned when Hezbollah morphed--on paper--into the "resistance", and 'disarmed' morphed into "we're proud of them".

So Salloukh is in a position to know their status, in all likelihood, but whether or not he'd be willing to make Hezbollah look bad is another matter. Hence my filing it under "possibly true, maybe even probably true, but not to be considered as reliably reported fact".

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4. I've also got it filed under 'possibly true'...

And that's interesting what you pointed out about the walk out. I hadn't known that....