5/20/2008: Intel News Brief: Hezbollah Map Shows Main Network of
Communications:

A detailed map released by a French Web site citing Lebanese sources
shows the main network of communications established by Hezbollah
throughout Lebanon. It details the organization's closed circuit
telephone system, a network independent from the one operated by the
government.

This parallel network was at the heart of the recent flare-up between
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's cabinet and Hezbollah chief Hassan
Nasrallah.

The latter accused the government of attempting to seize the network
while the Lebanese government stating that no communication network
could operate outside the law. Hezbollah's response was that its
status as a "resistance" organization justified it running its own
"closed communications system." In other words, to behave as a state
within the state.