Hezbollah’s missiles back in Lebanon

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FOUR months after Israel launched its onslaught against Hezbollah, the Lebanese guerrillas are back in south Lebanon stronger than ever and armed with more rockets than they had before the conflict, according to Israeli intelligence.

During the month-long war, which began on July 12, Hezbollah fired 200 to 250 rockets a day into Israel, killing 43 civilians and terrorising much of the north of the country.

“Since the ceasefire, additional rockets, weapons and military equipment have reached Hezbollah,” said an Israeli intelligence officer. “We assume they now have about 20,000 rockets of all ranges — a bit more than they had before July 12.”

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has confirmed the Israeli estimate. In a recent interview with al-Manar, the Hezbollah television station, he claimed his organisation had restocked its arsenal and now held at least 30,000 rockets, sufficient for five months of war.

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[Trajan]

1. Is there any reason to believe they ran out of missiles ? ....

Missiles arent the problem, per se ....

HATE is the problem .....

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2. None that I can see.

Although if they were out of the long range ones and have now fixed that, it would be significant. The saber rattling concerns me, and whether Nasrallah has gotten a bit full of himself and might do something stupid, or the Israelis for that matter. I expected Nasrallah to move for a "unity government" or to bring the government down, been sort of watching it happen for a while, but I don't know how much else you can extrapolate from that. It does seem like a dicey situation. I expected we would have a little more time between wars.

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3. WTF Hezbollah back in South Lebanon?

That would imply they left, as far as I know they never did. The disarming was exactly what I thought alot of personal weapons ak-47's ect turned over to Lebanese troops. Then adding to the pot is this which does not bode well.Not to mention that Hezbollah at this time may be better armed then the Lebanese military
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6139730.stm