Hezbollah ups security after Hamas Dubai slaying

[Behind the Aegis]

BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has beefed up security measures following January's killing of a top Hamas operative in Dubai and openly asked Lebanese authorities to tighten border controls against would be assassins.

Dubai police say a 26-member hit team carrying forged foreign passports, including British, French and Australian ones, killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his hotel room in January.

Dubai authorities have blamed Israel's Mossad intelligence agency for the assassination.

"We call upon Lebanese security agencies to follow and monitor any person carrying a European passport and to deal with him as a potential spy," Hezbollah legislator Nawaf al-Moussawi said in a televised interview Monday.

Lebanon is in a state of war with Israel and Israeli citizens and travelers with Israeli stamps on their passports are not allowed to enter.

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1. "Lebanon is in a state of war with Israel"

Shouldn't that be "Hezbollah continues to force Lebanon into a state of war with Israel."?