they killed the predecessor about who had already begun to reemerge as the guerrilla war and endicott knous rollin who turn hezbollah into the force we know today. so on one level, i think israel isn't sure whether it just makes it worse, and at this point i don't think they have a choice. but there's an important implication which is how important is the person to hezbollah's success? and there is a lot of different views on this. certainly this by is without peer in the politics today if he were to disappear from the scene, it's hard to imagine whoever replaces him could quickly duplicate both the reporting of the public and the authority he had. one of the stories about him is that's instrumental in the views of his followers is in 1998 his teenage son was killed in a raid against the israeli troops and the night his son was killed he was scheduled to give a speech and he gave the speech as scheduled and halfway through broke out for maybe three or four minutes into a version of his son who just died and what he said was for the first time i can look at my followers without shame because i now