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Hizbullah suspected of obtaining WMD

Western intelligence sources said Israel and the United
States have been monitoring Lebanon for evidence that
Islamic insurgents have been storing weapons of mass
destruction.

The sources said the evidence is not conclusive, but that
both countries suspect that Al Qaida and Hizbullah are
cooperating in the transfer and storage of chemical weapons.

The sources said the nonconventional weapons are believed
stored in two locations in Lebanon. Both of the locations
are along the Mediterranean coast near Beirut.

The sources said Al Qaida and Hizbullah — with help of
Iranian agents — are believed to be experimenting with
weaponizing surface-to-surface rockets with chemical
warheads.

Hizbullah has some 10,000 rockets, a quarter of them
believed to be the Iranian Fajr-5, with a range of 70
kilometers. The evidence of chemical warheads in Lebanon has
prompted harsh warnings by Washington to Lebanon.

The sources said Lebanese President Emile Lahoud was shown
evidence during his Washington visit last week that Iran was
helping Hizbullah deploy rockets throughout southern and
eastern Lebanon.

The focus of the Iranian missile help is the Imam Ali
military base in the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border.

The sources said Iran virtually controls much of the Bekaa
Valley, to the increasing consternation of Syrian military
officers