Hezbollah reportedly is insisting that a prisoner swap with Israel include a man who killed four Israelis in 1979. But Israel says Samir Kuntar is not among the 400 Arab security prisoners who could be released as part of a deal, in which Israel would receive businessman Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers, all kidnapped by Hezbollah.
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