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Exploding Pagers......
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many injured, and now deaths are being reported. Hezbollah are calling it a security breach, and are blaming Israel. if that is indeed the case, how was it possible?
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How was it possible? Speculation only ... Israel somehow had control of the manufacture of the pagers, or substituded pagers that they had prepared for genuine ones. The prepared pagers all had an explosive charge hidden in the case. When they thought it was necessary they were able to detonate the explosive with a one time call or signal. It would probably have been set up have been long ago. Possibly years given that the pagers were distributed widely and trusted by Hezbollah.
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//A former British Army munitions expert, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the devices would have likely been packed with between 10 to 20 grams each of military-grade high explosive, hidden inside a fake electronic component.
This, said the expert, would have been armed by a signal, something called an alphanumeric text message.
Once armed, the next person to use the device would have triggered the explosive.//
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