Hizbollah goes public with security worries
A series of mysterious events along Lebanon’s tense border with Israel, as well as growing concern that the Shiite community could be targeted by Sunni militants, had pushed Hizbollah to increase security to previously unseen levels, according to members of the Shiite movement, as well as independent observers.
Hizbollah officials and members say the group faces a series of threats that, when combined, pose some of the greatest security challenges that the group has seen since the end of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s.
“We have moved to the highest state of alert we have,” said one Hizbollah military commander who is responsible for security in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Read More…
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