Sunday, July 22, 2007

Deja Vu (Part 2,887,635)

It’s a weird kind of “peacekeeping” the United Nations is doing in Lebanon—consisting mostly of looking the other way while Hizballah prepares for war right under the UN’s nose: IDF: Hizbullah moving rockets inside S. Lebanese villages.

Hizbullah guerrillas have moved most of their rockets in south Lebanon among civilians in villages in an apparent attempt to avoid detection by Israel and UN troops, IDF officials said Sunday.

The new moves are part of Hizbullah’s reorganization after the Second Lebanon War, the officials said. During the summer’s war, Hizbullah fired almost 4,000 rockets at Israel. While Lebanon criticized the IDF for targeting civilian areas during the war, Israel said Hizbullah was to blame for operating among civilians and putting them at risk.

But the army’s new intelligence indicates that those positions had now largely been abandoned in favor of populated villages, which provide better cover for the group’s activities.