With a history of brokering prisoner swaps between Israel and Hizbollah, German spies are uniquely equipped to mediate in the Middle East, but they have never tried to resolve a crisis on the scale of the present one. Israel publicly asked Germany for the first time on Thursday for help in freeing two soldiers whose abduction by Hizbollah on July 12 prompted Israel to launch a bombardment of Lebanon that is now in its ninth day and has killed more than 300 people. Full Story
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