* Ehud Olmert ruled out the release of jailed Palestinian terrorists in return for the freeing of an Israeli soldier abducted to the Gaza Strip. “The question of a prisoner release is not even on the Israeli government’s agenda,” the prime minister said Monday in a speech to the Jewish Agency for Israel in Jerusalem.
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