Remember how Jimmy Carter was horrified at Hezbollah's lack of anti-aircraft missiles?

The Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization lacks missiles to "defend" itself from Israeli aircraft, former President Jimmy Carter claimed upon returning from a trip last week to Lebanon. "The general showed us a graph of the many flights of Israeli planes over all parts of Lebanon, averaging about a dozen each day. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have any anti-aircraft weapons for defense," wrote Carter in a first-person report posted on his Carter Center website... "At one site near the border, two different Israeli tanks came about 70 yards from us to observe our group," Carter wrote, before claiming Hezbollah lacks anti-aircraft weapons for "defense" against Israeli over flights.

He can apparently rest easy:

Hezbollah said it has a right to acquire and use antiaircraft weaponry against Israeli warplanes, in a ceremony commemorating assassinated leaders of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group. "We have the right to possess any weapons including air defense arms, and we have all the right to use these arms if we wished to," Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah said to crowds in the southern suburb of Beirut, which is the group's stronghold. Nasrallah did not confirm or deny whether the group had acquired antiaircarft missiles but said that Hezbollah has built its successes on the "basis of surprises."

Elder has a different translation of Nasrallah's speech, where "not confirm or deny" appears to be more confirm and less deny.

References:
* Carter laments: Terrorists lack 'defense' against Israel [WND]
* LEBANON: Hezbollah threatens to shoot down Israeli jets [LAT]
* Does Hezbollah have anti-aircraft weapons? [Elder]

Previously:
* Hezbollah Using Proxies To Bomb Israeli Civilians, Erode Israel's Deterrent
* So... When Does Hezbollah Get Involved? (Plus: Why Egypt Will Stay Out) (UPDATE: Or Not)
* Russia Running Out Of Israeli Enemies That They Haven't Provided With Cutting-Edge Military Tech