Prisoners return to homelands

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A prisoner swap between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah on Thursday freed more than 420 Palestinians and other Arabs, two Lebanese militia leaders and an Israeli businessman. Tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters lined an airport road in Beirut to welcome home the former prisoners, including Shiite cleric Abdel Karim Obeid and Lebanese guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani. Minutes earlier, an Israeli jet landed in Tel Aviv, bringing home businessman Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies of three soldiers killed on the Lebanese-Israeli border.