PM: Hizbullah no longer threat to north

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Hizbullah no longer poses a threat to northern communities. He noted during a tour of northern IDF posts that Hizbullah's positions in southern Lebanon were now occupied by the Lebanese Army and that the IDF was more prepared now, Army Radio reported.

Israeli warplanes staged mock raids earlier Tuesday over Hizbullah strongholds in south Beirut in the heaviest show of air power over Lebanon since the August 14 cease-fire.

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The overflights came only hours after UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen told the Security Council that the Lebanese government had reported that arms were being smuggled into Lebanon from Syria.

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