An Israeli court extended by another three months the detention of two Muslim fundamentalist leaders from Lebanon. Israel has been holding the two — Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, a Hezbollah leader, and Mustafa Dirani, a leader of the Amal movement — as bargaining chips for the release of captured Israeli air navigator Ron Arad.
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