Beirut - A German mediator is expected in Beirut next week to finalize a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah, a high- ranking Lebanese security source said Thursday.

The source said Gerhard Conard would travel to Lebanon after holding talks in Israel, where the cabinet is due to vote on the deal on Sunday.

The source said Condrad would meet Wafik Safa, a close aide of Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, who has been involved in previous swaps between Hezbollah and Israel.

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Beirut - A German judicial delegation is expected to arrive in Beirut in July to question one of the would-be bombers of a German train who was tried and sentenced in Lebanon, Lebanese judicial sources said Tuesday.

"A German judicial delegation was given permission by the general prosecutor Saaed Mirza to come to Beirut to question Jihad Hamad as a witness on July 3," the sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Hamad's lawyer, Fawaz Zakariyeh, told dpa that he will also be present at the questioning.

A Lebanese court in December 2007 sentenced Hamad to 12 years hard labour for the failed 2006 attempt to bomb two trains in Germany and acquitted three other defendants who were held with him in Lebanon.