[AdmSmith]

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.html

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read that"every man for himself" lol,,,NO command and control !!!

[BurbankKarl]

Witnesses in Baalbek said they saw dozens of IAF helicopters hovering over the city and said it was on alert against a possible troop landing.

Early Wednesday, Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV reported the group's guerrillas were fighting IDF ground troops west of Baalbek. The broadcast said fighters were involved in a "confrontation with an Israeli unit that landed near Al-Hikma Hospital west of Baalbek."

The IDF would not comment when asked about the Bekaa Valley operation. Israel Radio reported briefly on the Baalbek operation quoting reports from Lebanon with no local comment.