Hizbollah accused of stockpiling weapons

The Woodward Report ^ | October 15, 2009 | Mitchell Prothero

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BEIRUT - After the second mysterious explosion since July levelled a Hizbollah member’s home, Israel has formally complained to the United Nations that the militia continues to maintain weapons stockpiles south of the Litani River, along the Israel-Lebanon border, in defiance of the ceasefire that ended the July 2006 war.

In both cases, Israel immediately released footage from cameras on unmanned drones showing what are thought to be Hizbollah members emptying both buildings of what appear to be rockets before UN and Lebanese army forces were allowed into the villages to investigate. Monday’s blast was almost identical to an explosion in a Hizbollah commander’s home in Khirbit Selim in July.

Hizbollah’s official statement about Monday night’s explosion in the village of Teir Felsay said unexploded munitions from the 2006 war detonated and wounded a low-level member of the group as he tried to dispose of the material.

Unofficially, however, a representative of the Shiite militant group admitted that an explosion rocked the member’s home, where he was storing military equipment.

The Lebanese military and Hizbollah both deny that anyone was killed in the explosion, but off the record, an official with the military wing of the group said one Hizbollah fighter was killed in the explosion. He would not release the man’s name.

The Hizbollah official, who cannot be identified, said the group believed that the blast was the work of either Israeli commandos or Lebanese agents working on behalf of Israel.

The group strongly suspects someone blew up the arms cache, perhaps by placing a bomb among weaponry.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

What a surprise! What does anyone think they were doing? Building schools and hospitals?

[Pajama Blogger]

I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

[MrB]

In a related story,

bees are accused of “stockpiling honey”.