[New York Times] Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker - Both the U.S. and Israel are just now learning the extent to which Hizballah has succeeded in getting weapons from Iran and Syria, and some officials in Washington admitted to being blindsided by the abilities of Hizballah's arsenal. "We've seen a new capability in striking the [Israeli] naval vessel and in the number of casualties that have been sustained from the Hizballah missile attacks," a Bush administration official said. "In the past, we'd see three, four, maybe eight launches at any given time if Hizballah was feeling feisty....Now we see them arriving in large clusters, and with a range and even a certain accuracy we have not seen in the past."
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