Hezbollah says it has a videotape of its kidnapping last October of three Israeli soldiers. Israel has been pressing the United Nations to release an unedited version of a video made by an Indian member of a U.N. peacekeeping force 18 hours after the kidnapping. According to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, a U.N. peacekeeper testified that the Hezbollah kidnappers wore the uniforms of U.N. peacekeepers.
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