BBC 2 This World: Hunting for Hezbollah part 3/3
Hunting for Hezbollah, BBC2
In the third installment, we see the new military fortifications that Hizbollah is building North of the Litani, as Charles Levinson mentioned on his blog the other day (links in article below). Apart from seeing some of what is going on, and the fortifications that Hizbollah had before (and that no-one knew about) is how scared the narrators are. It is quite evident that collecting any information on events in the south is a bit of a hit and miss affair and pretty dangerous. Added to which Hizbollah remove any tapes they find which show anything incriminating at all – they definitely have a stanglehold on information and on journalism in the area. And appear to have something to hide.
I thought the series was very well done – though certainly a bit depressing and worrying.
I also could not help wondering if “Crazy D.” suffered any repercussions from Hezbollah for showing and telling so much to a foreign journalist.
Comment by Lisa — August 12, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
Ha, you are ahead of me a little on potential repercussions for “Crazy D”, that is a couple of posts up ahead….. I did say this had turned into a bit of a series.
Comment by lisoosh — August 13, 2007 @ 10:39 am
Crazy-D is fine…. I spoke to him tonight. I call all the time to make sure that they don’t try and bully my contributors over there… the film was balanced and they don’t seem to have done anything bad to D. Hezb’s Press Office wanted a word wiht him though, but haven’t been bothered to even call him yet…. so I don’t think it’s that serious. If D was in trouble he’d have had a visit from the heavy brigade by now…
Comment by Microraptor — August 20, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Micro – thanks for the update. It is hard to separate the reality from the rhetoric sometimes.
Comment by lisoosh — August 20, 2007 @ 11:59 pm