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Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Hezbollah's hidden armoury

May 14, 2007 00:00
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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".

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