Hezbollah's hidden armoury
There was an important story in Le Figaro last week which seems to have been ignored by the British press:
In the past six months, UN troops in South Lebanon have uncovered "over a hundred bunkers, some built mischievously next door to UNIFIL positions, and numerous weapons caches hidden under mosques and on football pitches". A senior officer with the UNIFIL suspects that Hezbollah "is hiding ammunition in the cellars of South Lebanese houses to which the UNIFIL has no access". In his words, "we (UNIFIL) may be ignorant of a lot what is going on".
But then some don't see that Israel has any right to be concerned by Hezbollah.
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Fran
May 15th, 2007 5:20pmI wonder why the British press hasn't reported this story? Surely not because it might suggest that Israel has every right to defend itself from a murderous bunch of terrorists? Or that Israel's insistence last summer that it was firing at Hezbollah positions and not at UN posts could, conceivably have been the truth? Or that Lebanon's government was criminally responsible for permitting Hezbollah to set up its army on Israel's northern border when it had undertaken not to? Or because it demonstrates that the UN is (a) ineffectual and (b) lied last summer. Oh no.