An Israeli court postponed until mid-July a decision on whether to free two Muslim fundamentalist leaders who were abducted by Israeli commandos from Lebanon. Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, a Hezbollah leader, and Mustafa Dirani, a leader of the Amal movement, have been held without trial since their seizure by Israel in 1988 and 1994, respectively.
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