Hezbollah admits arms buildup

Hezbollah admitted it has resumed stockpiling arms on Lebanon’s frontier with Israel. “We can reveal that we have arms, and of all kinds,” Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said last Friday in a speech. “We move them covertly, and Israel does not know about it.” Nasrallah said the smuggling would continue in defiance of Israel, foreign peacekeepers and the Lebanese army, which deployed in southern Lebanon as part of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire that ended last year’s war. “We are not a burden to the Lebanese army but rather a supporter of its mission,” Nasrallah said.