Sheik Abdel Karim Obeid, a Hezbollah leader and one of the most famous prisoners released, inside the car, outside the Beirut airport, Lebanon, Thursday Jan. 29, 2004. Lebanese and other Arab prisoners freed in a mass exchange of prisoners with Israel arrived in Beirut to a rousing welcome by tens of thousands of people and senior government officials.  [AP]

Lebanese prisoners step down from a German plane upon their arrival in Beirut airport January 29, 2004. Around 30 mainly Lebanese arrived in Beirut to hero's welcome on Thursday as part of landmark prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas.  [Reuters]

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