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REPORTS: MOSSAD RIGGED PAGER BATTERIES WITH EXPLOSIVES, DEVICES WERE IMPORTED 5
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Sky News Arabia quotes sources saying that today’s large-scale pager attack in
Lebanon was possible because the Mossad spy agency got hold of Hezbollah’s
communication devices before they were handed over to the terror group.

The Israeli spy agency placed a quantity of PETN, a highly explosive material,
on the batteries of the devices, and detonated them by raising the temperature
of the batteries from afar, the source says.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that some Hezbollah members felt their
pagers heating up and disposed of them before the series of explosions that
killed at least nine and injured about 2,800 people.



Al Jazeera quotes a Lebanese security source saying that the weight of the
explosive placed in each device was below 20 grams, and that the pagers that
were blown up were imported five months ago. An investigation is being conducted
into how the explosive charge was activated, the source adds.



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