Hostage Crisis Deepens as Obeid Demand Maintains Pressure
The report describes renewed calls from a Hezbollah-linked group to free Sheikh Abdul Karim Obeid, with captor statements read on tape urging U.S. action. Israeli officials show no immediate plan to release Obeid while U.N. and Hezbollah figures discuss potential prisoner swaps amid threats of further violence connected to missing U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins.
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