Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.
The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5000 beepers 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 receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.
But the senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel's spy service "at the production level".
හිස්බුල්ල උන්ට එන ඕඩර් වල එක්ස්ප්ලෝසිව් තියනවද කියලවත් චෙක් කරන්නේ නැතුව උන්ගේ හමුදාවට දීල තියෙනනේ
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The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5000 beepers 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 receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.
But the senior Lebanese source said the devices had been modified by Israel's spy service "at the production level".
හිස්බුල්ල උන්ට එන ඕඩර් වල එක්ස්ප්ලෝසිව් තියනවද කියලවත් චෙක් කරන්නේ නැතුව උන්ගේ හමුදාවට දීල තියෙනනේ
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