Nicholas Blanford may not talk to sources in Hizbullah anymore but he sure talks to "several sources close to the party"

"Hezbollah also has been helping its core Shiite constituency to protect themselves lately by flooding the black market with several thousand AK-47 assault rifles, according to several sources close to the party and Lebanese arms dealers. The rifles had the identifying moniker of the “Abbas Brigades” – a Hezbollah fighting unit – removed from the stocks along with serial markings on the metal work and were sold in green plastic bags for around $1,300 to $1,400 each, some $400 or $500 less than the market price for an AK-47."  What a joke. (thanks Basim)