WashingtonPost.com (excerpts):  Tel Aviv, Israel - Kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, returned home Tuesday looking pale and rail to a country bracing itself for fallout from a prisoner swap that has emboldened the fiery militant Palestinian faction Hamas.  A subdued Israeli homecoming ceremony for Shalit stood in stark contrast with the mood in the Gaza Strip, where buses carrying the first of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners freed as part of the exchange were escorted by heavily armed Ham...

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