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Sergeant Mutsuhiro Watanabe (Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "the Bird" by his prisoners, was a Japanese soldier who served in several prisoner-of-war camps during World War II.
PHOTO: President Joe Biden, right, reaches out to hold hands with Elizabeth Whelan, left, as he delivers remarks on a prisoner swap with Russia from the State Dining Room of the White House, Aug ...
Biden said the prisoner exchange, like any deal of the nature, required difficult decisions. But unlike other trades with Russia conducted in recent years, it wasn't just the U.S. government that ...
The Dec. 9, 2022, exchange of the WNBA star for a Russian arms trader As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps Skip to main content
Despite that, the two sides negotiated prisoner exchanges virtually from the beginning of the war. Under extraordinary circumstances, these early contacts evolved into a formal exchange agreement, centered on the creation of a neutral zone, possibly the only such in occupied Europe, where prisoners were regularly swapped until late April 1945 ...
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[6] The prisoner swap was described as Israel's "first prisoner exchange with an Arab terrorist organization". [1] [7] Among those released in the exchange was Hafez Dalkamoni, who would later be described as one of the “key-aids” of Ahmed Jibril, the leader of the PFLP-GC. In 1988 he was arrested in West Germany on suspicion of terrorist ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he’s serious about pursuing a prisoner exchange for a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for more than 100 days. The Kremlin ...