Anne Barnard covering Hizbullah in Lebanon

How could you, Ms. Barnard, describe such a source to a journalism class? And do you think that we would allow undergraduates to cite such a source in such a way in a research paper?  "At the same time, a person familiar with the deliberations of Hezbollah".  Regarding the subject at hand, Anne.  You don't need to talk to "a person familiar with the deliberations of Hizbullah"--whatever that means: had you known Arabic, you would have told your readers that deputy secretary-general of Hizbullah, Na`im Qasim, actually spoke against US military intervention and said that the US pursues its own interests and can't be trusted and words to that effect.