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Forming strong alliances with Lebanon's most powerful political blocs is Hizbullah's way of fending off threats of disarmament imposed by the U.S. in its push for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1559, according to Hizbullah's assistant secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassim.

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