Booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies were the latest salvo in the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hizbullah
Mourners at the funeral of Fatima Abdullah, a nine-year-old girl who was killed in the pager attack in Lebanon , in the village of Saraain El Faouqa on Wednesday. Photograph: Diego Ibarra Sánchez/New York TimesBut it wasn’t the militants’ leaders.
Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech via a screen at a memorial ceremony in Beirut in June for field commander Taleb Sami Abdallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike. Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE BAC did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers. But the only client that really mattered was Hizbullah, and its pagers were far from ordinary. Produced separately, they contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN, according to the three intelligence officers.
Over the summer, shipments of the pagers to Lebanon increased, with thousands arriving in the country and being distributed among Hizbullah officers and their allies, according to two US intelligence officials.
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