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Washington - The U.S. military on Thursday released three teenage boys, believed to be between the ages of 13 and 15, who had been accused of supporting the Taliban and had been held at the prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon announced. The boys were sent back to their home country, which was not identified. They were the youngest prisoners at the Guantanamo base, which has held hundreds of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fighters since the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Beirut - Hezbollah will kidnap more Israelis to secure the release of Lebanese prisoners, if necessary, the militant movement's leader warned Thursday. Speaking at a mass rally to welcome home 21 Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel hours earlier, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his guerrillas could capture more Israelis to bargain for the freedom of Lebanese still held in Israeli prisons. Bangkok, Thailand - Asian countries that so far have escaped the bird flu spreading across the continent stepped up measures Thursday to keep the virus outside their borders. Hong Kong isolated a woman who returned from Vietnam with suspicious pneumonia symptoms. Singapore intensified a campaign to slaughter crows, scavengers considered potential spreaders of the disease.1/30/2004
