Why Hezbollah Fights reminded me of a similar article i found last week. Definitely not as in-depth as that article but a close outline of it.
Under the leadership of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is one of the strongest and best organized bodies in Lebanon. Nasrallah is both a determined man of religion and a master of psychological warfare. He’s manipulative and knows how to drag people behind him. With 20,000 troops and at least 10,000 rockets trained on northern Israel, Hezbollah remains a potent force in Lebanon — the only remaining private militia after others were disarmed. Its strength also derives from its civilian arm: It runs hospitals, schools, food-distribution centers, orphanages and a television station, partly thanks to about $60 million in annual aid from Iran. Hezbollah supports the destruction of Israel and cooperates with other militant Islamic organizations, such as Hamas, to promote this goal. Analysts see increased coordination lately among Hamas and Hezbollah. Hezbollah was also believed to be the driving force behind several attacks on Western targets: the April 1983 suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people; the October 1983 attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 troops; and a simultaneous attack on the French multinational force headquarters that killed 58 French soldiers. In September 1984, seven months after U.S. forces withdrew from Lebanon, Hezbollah supporters staged a second attack on the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut. Twenty were killed. Hezbollah has ignored U.N. Security Council resolutions ordering that it disarm, feeling that it has political backing from Iran and Syria, and popular support because of its successful guerrilla warfare against Israel.