"Hezbollah dispatched around 1,200 combatants from its special forces units to
spearhead the assault on Qusayr, according to Hajj Abbas, a veteran combatant
with the Shiite group who recently returned to Lebanon after a weeklong spell
fighting in the town. “It was like fighting in a refugee camp. The buildings
were so close, we were clearing them not meter by meter but centimeter by
centimeter,” he says, using the pseudonym Hajj Abbas because he was not
authorized to speak to the media." So he is not authorized to speak to the media but Hizbullah makes an exception in the case of Blanford because he is known as a propagandist for the Hariri family and Israel? OK. Makes sense. (thanks Basim)