very few of them rise to the level of rani bazzi. hezbollah's actual relationship and men in arms is quite small. numbers in the thousands, maybe the low tens of thousands. so that's the nucleus of the group. where does it get it's reach? who makes the ranks of the hezbollah. i talk about the few people as the war unfolded that helped complete that picture for me. the second most indicative person that i came to noel and spend time with during the war was a young women. she was a nurse, trilingual, she had studied at the american university of beirut, and ran the emergency room in one of the port cities, tahrir. one the port cities. when war broke out, he was in a conference. one the first thinged she did was hail a cab and head south in the opposite direction of all of the screaming hoards that were trying to escape. she felt her place was in the war zone helping -- not only helping people, but helping east hezbollah's war effort. she felt this even though she had no official ties. she didn't work for the party. she didn't have a pa