HEZBOLLAH PENETRATES CHRISTIAN AREAS IN LEBANON
By CTB Special Correspondent
Editor's Note: Karim is a special correspondent for the Counterterrorism Blog and is currently in Beirut, Lebanon. Karim notes "These villages and towns are christians areas. Aounist have been providing the cover..."
Hezbollah has deployed in Wadi Chahrour - Blaybel area in Mount Lebanon. On Monday at 10.30 Hezbollah launched three rockets. At 10:45 AM Hezbollah launched another rocket from the same Christian area.
On Sunday Hezbollah redeployed in some areas in the southern suburb of Beirut, and shut down the access to the area. Hezbollah also has obtained a safe house in Kesrwan.
On Monday, Hezbollah elements went to Mansurieh (Northern Metn) and asked the representative of the Aounist "Tayyar" to provide some reconnaissance help because they wanted to settle some rockets launchers on Mansourieh 's hills.
Also See:
In February of 2006, Andrew Cochran noted that Michael Aoun, a Member of Parliament and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (Tayyar watani Horr), met with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and signed a "memorandum of understanding" between Aoun's Christian faction and Nasrallah's Hezbollah.