At least nine people have been killed and about 2,800 injured after pagers used for communication by the militant group Hezbollah exploded in a series of blasts across Lebanon, according to local authorities.
Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack and vowed "punishment".
Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah's Taiwan-made pagers, Reuters reports
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source has told Reuters.
Of those, 3,000 of the pagers simultaneously exploded when a coded message was sent to them.
The senior Lebanese security source said the devices had been modified by Israel's spy service "at the production level".
"The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.
The pagers are reportedly made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country in the spring.
The senior Lebanese security source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AP924, which like other pagers wirelessly receives and displays text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
Neither Israel nor Gold Apollo immediately responded to Reuters requests for comment.
Reporting by Reuters
Somebody's cat died, and Israel is to blame.
ReplyDeleteThe Reuters report was made by someone who didn't do any background research and just swalled whatever claim Hezbollah vomited.
ReplyDeleteExplosives are easily detected by modern equipment down to minute amounts.Such paging devices , if they contained explosives, would have failed any standard airfreight screening or air passenger screening.