Israel Accuses Hizbullah of Tripling Number of Rockets in 2 Years

Lebanon news, Lebanese radio station , world news, music, discover Lebanon, visit Beirut, Radio sawt Beirut Hizbullah now has three times more rockets than it had when Israel went to war with the Shiite group two years ago, Israeli public radio cited intelligence officials as telling a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Members of the security cabinet were told Hizbullah has an arsenal of 40,000 rockets ready to be fired at Israel, three times more than in July 2006 when Israel launched a devastating war in southern Lebanon after the group captured two soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had called Wednesday's meeting of the security cabinet to discuss what he said were violations by Hizbullah of U.N. Resolution 1701 which ended the 34-day war. The resolution called for the disarming of all militias... [read full story]