News from the past:

In August 2006 Jesse Jackson went to Lebanon, had meetings with the terrorist group Hizballah, then stopped over in Israel to tell the families of those two IDF soldiers whose mutilated bodies were returned to Israel last week that their loved ones were still alive.

The families of the kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldiers met with Reverend Jesse Jackson Wednesday at the Ben Gurion Airport and heard from him information he obtained from sources in Lebanon, that Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were alive.
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Jackson said he could not go into details of the conversations, but that he heard optimism on the condition of the soldiers being held captive. The families of the soldiers sought more solid and based information.
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Jackson said he met the Hizbullah leadership in Lebanon, and that the soldiers were not killed in the (kidnapping) operation. He said he committed himself to not going into details of the conversation.