Hezbollah fighters operate in mobile units of between 15 to 20. They are better armed, equipped and trained than the Lebanese Army. Volunteers are clamouring to join them, but officials say they don't want them getting in the way.
The commanders are authorised to take autonomous decisions because of the difficulty of maintaining radio contact with their superiors and the need to respond swiftly to any incursion. Each unit includes a video camera and film is rushed back to Beirut to be shown on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV. They have their own communications system and a code to fool their more technologically advanced foe.
Two veteran guerrillas, Haj Rabieh and Abu Muhammed, holed up in the ruins of Srifa, just south of the Litani river yesterday, demonstrated how they use cheap walkie-talkies to stay in touch and baffle any Israeli eavesdroppers. Both are schoolteachers in quieter times.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2295592,00.htmlLebanese: IDF forces in Baalbek(IDF Setup Position for AMBUSH)
Lebanese sources report that the Israel Air Force dropped off IDF forces in position for an ambush in Baalbek, in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.
The IDF has neither confirmed nor denied the report at this time. (Roee Nahmias)
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