David Shenker in Foreign Policy Magazine

"Foreign Policy, in its “Seven Questions” format, asks regional expert David Shenker about some of the goings on in Lebanon, including the warnings of a “coup” (given by Walid Jumblatt in his last visit to Washington) and Hezbollah’s rearming:

FP: How actively is Hezbollah rearming?

DS: U.N. Special Representative Terje Roed Larsen stated recently that they are rearming. That fact probably accounts for Israel’s latest flyover of Beirut and the trial bombing runs. There’s a question as to whether the rearming going on now involves heavy weapons, but it is probably headed in that direction. The degradation of Hezbollah’s missile capability was the one accomplishment that Israel could point to from the war and if that has eroded, then the war was all for naught.

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