Barak: Hizbullah has more rockets than last year

Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent contradictory messages about Syria to members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday. In his first address to the committee since becoming defense minister in June, he said Hizbullah, which receives its rockets via Syria, had increased its supply from an estimated 10,000-15,000 before the Second Lebanon War to some 20,000 today.

Young Lebanese Hizbullah supporters, hold mock ups of Katyusha rockets launchers, in front of a portrait of Hizbullah's Secretary-General Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally in Saksakkiyeh village south of Lebanon.

He said Hizbullah had also acquired antitank missiles and was trying to reestablish its infrastructure in southern Lebanon. More