The Arming of Hezbollah

Both the U.S. and Israel are just now learning the extent to which Hezbollah has succeeded in getting weapons from Iran and Syria, and some officials in Washington admitted to being blindsided by the abilities of Hezbollah's arsenal.

"We've seen a new capability in striking the [Israeli] naval vessel and in the number of casualties that have been sustained from the Hezbollah missile attacks," a Bush administration official said.

"In the past, we'd see three, four, maybe eight launches at any given time if Hezbollah was feeling feisty....Now we see them arriving in large clusters, and with a range and even a certain accuracy we have not seen in the past."