Hezbollah secretly building battle positions in Lebanon

This post is a bit out of the normal realm of the subject matter covered here at Inside Charm City. I just wanted to highlight a post today at NRO’s The Tank made by my friend W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

In the post, Smith, who is in Lebanon right now, reports that construction is going on in the Bekaa Valley and Al Dahiyeh that involves Lebanese government contracts given to Wa’ad, a construction company owned by Hezbollah that is a front for Jihad Al-Bina, an Iranian company that’s on the U.S. terror watchlist.

Smith reports that Wa’ad is rebuilding residences and commercial space damaged or destroyed during fighting in 2006. He mentions that families displaced during the construction are renting elsewhere now at Hezbollah expense.
Details of the construction:

But the houses are being rebuilt – as they were — with secret interconnecting corridors linking the houses together in a link-by-link network of fighting positions. There are tunnels running beneath the houses linking them with other buildings and adjacent neighborhoods, as well as to huge underground command posts. And there are walls being constructed with concealed weapons-storage spaces.