A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper shakes the hand of a Lebanese Hezbollah supporter ... Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006.... (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
They say they cannot set up checkpoints, search cars, homes or businesses or detain suspects. If they see a truck transporting missiles, for example, they say they can not stop it. They cannot do any of this, they say, because under their interpretation of the Security Council resolution that deployed them, they must first be authorized to take such action by the Lebanese Army.
A general view of Hezbollah supporters waving yellow Hezbollah flags during a Hezbollah 'victory over Israel' rally, in Beirut's bombed-out suburbs, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. In his first public appearance since the start of his group's summertime war with Israel, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said his guerrillas will never forcibly surrender their weapons.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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