'Other means' of freeing Shalit?

Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaking Monday in the Knesset: "We sent Gilad Schalit, and must do everything possible to bring him home," Barak said. "There are negotiations taking place, and there are other channels of action - and it would be wrong to elaborate about them." Too bad no one tried that four years ago, when Barak's Labor colleague Amir "Comrade" Peretz was Defense Minister.