Liz Sly: cites another expert on Hizbullah

People who talk to the Western press are not close to Hizbullah. People who are close to Hizbullah don't talk to the Western press (with the exception of Nicholas Blanford who for some odd reasons receives daily confessionals from Hizbullah fighters and commanders):  "...predicted Mohammed Obeid, a Beirut-­based analyst who is close to Iranian-backed Hezbollah and familiar with the thinking of its leaders".  Obeid, of course, was a leader in the Amal movement and his conversations in Wikileaks only added his distance from Hizbullah.   Just look at the other experts she cited on the Middle East and you get the drift.