HEZBOLLAH TRAINING LOCAL LEBANESE TO FIGHT ISRAEL

Hizbullah Trains Lebanese Shiites to Fight Israel - Ferry Biedermann (Financial Times-UK)
"We have twice as many people signing up for training this summer as before," said a senior Hizbullah official when asked about the movement's strength. After last year's war Hizbullah is putting more emphasis on training the local population in the villages and towns in southern Lebanon. The goal is to have the inhabitants stay and fight rather than flee, as happened en masse during last year's war.