Kuntar to receive state welcoming

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Samir Kuntar and four other Lebanese prisoners will receive an official state welcoming when they are released by Israel on Wednesday as part of the prisoner swap with Hizbullah.

The five men will be greeted at Beirut's airport by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and President Gen. Michel Suleiman.

Later, a huge rally will be held in the capital's southern suburbs where Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah will speak, the group's Al-Manar TV has said.

French news agency AFP reported that the coastal road from the Israeli border to the southern port city of Sidon had been covered with Hizbullah decorations, and hundreds of volunteers had been hanging banners to praise Hizbullah's role in the prisoners' release throughout the south of the country.

In Kuntar's home in Abey, streets were decorated with banners welcoming the return of the former member of the radical Palestine Liberation Front. "Samir Kuntar is the conscience of Lebanon, Palestine and the Arab nation. Abey welcomes the hero, prisoner Samir Kuntar," reads one sign.

Meanwhile, a senior Hizbullah official has said Israel's approval of a prisoner swap with his group was an "official admission of defeat."

Hizbullah's commander in south Lebanon, Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, said Tuesday that the prisoner exchange showed Israel's "humiliating failure in confronting the resistance militarily and politically."
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