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By Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, July 24, 2008 BEIRUT: Hizbullah turned over the remains of 114 Syrian and Arab fighters to Syria on Wednesday after receiving them as part of a prisoner swap with Israel last week. The coffins were taken from Beirut to the Masnaa border crossing in the eastern part of the country by Hizbullah's Islamic Health Committee. Hundreds of people gathered to attend the handover ceremony. Relatives of the deceased had waited on the Syrian side of the border from early morning. Members of Syria's Republican Guard received the coffins before they were transported to the Umayyad Square at the entrance of Damascus. "Syria always stood alongside the resistance, whether in Palestine, Lebanon or Iraq," Yasser Hourieh, a senior member of Syria's ruling Baath party, said in a speech marking the occasion.... [read full story]
