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Israel sent warplanes to destroy at least five bridges in Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after Hizbullah fighters took two of the Jewish state's soldiers prisoner in a cross-border operation condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as "an act of war." Eight Israeli troops were killed during the heaviest fighting.

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