Lebanon background: The Hizb'Allah missile myth

From Lebanon resident, anti-Israel activist and middle-east affairs writer and commentator, Robert Fisk:

" ... it's Syria that is being lined up for attack next, not the Saddam Cabinet. And the signs were clear long ago.

"Take the article in The New York Times by Larry Collins - joint author with Dominique Lapierre of O Jerusalem! - which last month announced that the Syrian-supported Hizbollah resistance in Lebanon had 10,000 missiles that could fly to Tel Aviv and 'leave in their wake devastation more terrible than anything Israel has ever known'.

"The missiles are a myth - I travel the roads of southern Lebanon every two weeks and there are no such missiles, as the UN force there will confirm ..."

Published by The Independent (UK) on 15 April 2003.