I READ THAT HIZBALLAH USES TOW MISSILES AGAINST ISRAEL. HOW DID AN ISLAMIC GUERRILLA OUTFIT GET ITS HANDS ON AN ADVANCED U.S. ANTITANK WEAPON?
Hizballah used tow missiles against Israel last February. Ironically perhaps, Hizballah may have got the missiles indirectly from the Israelis. The Lebanese guerrilla army gets most of its weaponry from Iran. The most plausible explanation for its tow missiles--strenuously denied by Iran--is that these are some of the 2,008 units of the antitank weapon sold to Tehran by the U.S. in 1986 in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon--the root of the...
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