Missing Israeli airman Ron Arad is probably dead, Hezbollah’s leader said. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, whose Lebanese militia has been under pressure to locate Arad in order to pursue a prisoner swap with Israel, said for the first time Wednesday that this could prove impossible.
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