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Report: Hezbollah buying up lands in southern Lebanon
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent

The militant group Hezbollah is buying up lands in southern Lebanon in efforts to rehabilitate the group's military capabilities, one year after its war with Israel, a British newspaper reported Sunday.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Hezbollah is purchasing land north of the Litani River, and is able to conduct military activity there without interference from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which deployed south of the Litani following the Second Lebanon War in efforts to restore peace.

The Sunday Telegraph quoted a former Christian Lebanese parliament member as saying "Christians and Druze are selling their land and fleeing. The Shiites are coming. There is a drastic demographic change," he said.

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Military sources in Israel have reported that Hezbollah has entirely rehabilitated its weapons arsenal, which was depleted during the war. Some sources have said that Hezbollah is better armed now than it was before the war.

During the Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah militants fired Katyusha rockets at Israel from open fields, as well as from populated residential areas. In addition, the organization fortified spaces beneath the homes of citizens in southern Lebanon villages, as well as in open fields and valleys.

According to the report, a wealthy businessman who made his fortune in the diamond trade in Sierra Leone is behind the mass land purchases.

Hezbollah is barring outsiders from entering its newly purchased land in the southern Lebanese village of Shabil. The village is situated north of the Litani, but is close enough to the Israeli border to allow the firing of rockets into its territory. The area has been closed off with a sign reading "Entry prohibited. Hezbollah territory", and an armed guard mans the entrance to the village.
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  1.   this has been reported in Ya Libnan for 15:26  |  Lynn 12/08/07
  2.   Next time 15:28  |  Jasmine Murphy 12/08/07
  3.   Note, this nothing but the efforts of Iran whose interest is the 15:30  |  Anat 12/08/07
  4.   Hezbollah has learned it all from the early zionists! 16:01  |  lakshmi 12/08/07
  5.   Here We Go Again..... 16:03  |  SM 12/08/07
  6.   Hezbollah Territory 16:04  |  * BEN JABO 12/08/07
  7.   Hezbollah`s morality is as deep as... 16:06  |  Akiva Patysh 12/08/07
  8.   How can this be? 16:46  |  Ronny 12/08/07
  9.   Will be much easier to cluster bomb large areas 16:57  |  Johnny 12/08/07
  10.   Am His`b Allah chai! 16:59  |  Hannah 12/08/07
  11.   LAND FOR WAR 17:06  |  Brant 12/08/07
  12.   They got tunnel-building hardware there 17:18  |  Soldier 12/08/07
  13.   I pity the Christians i Lebanon 17:39  |  justice 12/08/07
  14.   Where is the Lebanese army 17:46  |  Sherman 12/08/07
  15.   They are BUYING land from their people, not stealing 17:49  |  nobodysacred 12/08/07
  16.   More chnce to destroy us 17:50  |  Shemo 12/08/07
  17.   Hizballah buying up lands in southern Lebanon 17:58  |  Justis 12/08/07
  18.   #5 nobody sacred 18:16  |  * BEN JABO 12/08/07
  19.   Hezbollah has learned from the early zionists! 18:18  |  lakshmi 12/08/07
  20.   #6, Shemo 18:22  |  Hannah 12/08/07
  21.   #4, Sherman 18:28  |  Hannah 12/08/07
  22.   #7, Justis 18:31  |  Hannah 12/08/07
  23.   to shemo 18:52  |  Spyrou 12/08/07
  24.   What a crappy report!!!! 19:14  |  Westwell 12/08/07
  25.   Christians in Lebanon 19:17  |  anti-semitism 12/08/07
  26.   Bush is against Iran 19:26  |  me 12/08/07
  27.   What is going to happen to the 19:31  |  Pals in Lebanon 12/08/07
  28.   now you know where to leave the cluster bombs 19:44  |  frenz 12/08/07
  29.   obsurd article 20:05  |  david 12/08/07
  30.   Will someone think of the children 20:08  |  Chris Linthwaite 12/08/07
  31.   They`re not Hizb Allah. They`re Hizb Shaitan 20:10  |  Hannah 12/08/07
  32.   Arab Hannah 20:12  |  Hannah 12/08/07
  33.   zionist 20:19  |  wh 12/08/07
  34.   the intellectual underdog 20:26  |  Nik Miller 12/08/07
  35.   So we`ll know where they are, good so! 20:33  |  Hansje 12/08/07
  36.   May I offer you some Perrier? 20:34  |  ManInTheMiddle 12/08/07
  37.   hizbillys of za 20:36  |  kev 12/08/07
  38.   lebanons army is hezbollah 20:45  |  kev 12/08/07
  39.   To No. 15 20:51  |  justice 12/08/07
  40.   Funny Hannah 21:00  |  Shemo 12/08/07
  41.   peace 21:02  |  oz 12/08/07
  42.   NIK #34, Underdog? 21:27  |  Westwell 12/08/07
  43.   The Results of Israeli Stupidity and Lack of Commitment 21:36  |  Tod Zuckerman 12/08/07
  44.   Hezballah North of the Litani 22:11  |  Reid 12/08/07
  45.   rl 22:27  |  l 12/08/07
  46.   #30 Linthwaite 22:49  |  * BEN JABO 12/08/07
  47.   #20 Hannah - Express your solidarity 22:51  |  * BEN JABO 12/08/07
  48.   #25 anti-semitism 22:56  |  * BEN JABO 12/08/07
  49.   # 32 Hannah 23:09  |  Abu Yusuf 12/08/07
  50.   Hannah # 20 23:16  |  Angus 12/08/07
  51.   lakshmi #4 -- historical patterns 23:44  |  bbl 12/08/07
  52.   "Entry prohibited. Hezbollah territory" 23:48  |  Akiva Patysh 12/08/07
  53.   Retake Southern Lebanon for future chrisitan state 23:57  |  bernard ross 12/08/07
  54.   #46, ben Jabo 00:42  |  Hannah 13/08/07
  55.   Truth 01:02  |  Victor 13/08/07
  56.   #46 ben Jabo 01:28  |  Chris Linthwaite 13/08/07
  57.   Westwell re: Nik 34 02:05  |  Nik Miller 13/08/07
  58.   Infidels, Sell Your Land Voluntarily and They Might Let You Live 02:12  |  Efox 13/08/07
  59.   re: lakshmi 02:14  |  Efox 13/08/07
  60.   re: nobodysacred 02:15  |  Efox 13/08/07
  61.   Seizing Lebanon from the Infidels was Practice for All Christians 02:20  |  Efox 13/08/07
  62.   44 Reid,it`s a more complex situation than the one you describe, 02:52  |  lakshmi 13/08/07
  63.   Iritating isn`t it? 03:33  |  Mark Lincoln 13/08/07
  64.   #62 Lakshmi-Hamas/Hezballah 09:52  |  Gil62 13/08/07
  65.   #56 2ND TRY Linthwaite 15:58  |  * BEN JABO 13/08/07
  66.   62Gil 62,you`re raising a number of sometimes unrelated questions 00:16  |  lakshmi 14/08/07
  67.   Lakshmi #66, read the post again and you will 03:57  |  Gil62 14/08/07
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