Resolved to no resolution

The series of subterranean explosions that shook Khirbet Selim in mid-July merely seemed to confirm what everyone knew but preferred to ignore — that Hezbollah has amassed arms and munitions in the border district patrolled by the United Nations Interm Force In Lebanon, despite UN Security Council Resolution 1701. There had been past hints. In May 2008, an armored patrol of Italian peacekeepers came across a tractor and trailer driving between the villages of Jabal Butom and Siddiqine in the south in the middle of the night. When the patrol turned around to follow the truck, two Mercedes overtook the UN vehicles and stopped between them and the fleeing tractor, blocking the road. A tense stand-off ensued until the Lebanese army arrived on the scene, by which time the mysterious tractor had disappeared. The Khirbet Selim explosions apparently emanated from an underground Hezbollah bunker stuffed with weapons and ammunition. Hezbollah