Hezbollah prepares for 'victory' rally in bombed Beirut suburbs

Hundreds of thousands of people packed Beirut’s bombed-out suburbs for a Hezbollah “victory over Israel” rally today, where guerrilla leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah was expected to deliver a historic speech about his group’s weapons.

Roads toward Lebanon’s capital were jammed with cars and buses waving Hezbollah flags, ahead of what was billed as the country’s largest rally to showcase the group’s insistence that it won’t disarm.