despite its effectiveness of tactic the strategy is bound to create more trouble for the zionists;

Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside thousands of pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before the devices exploded, a Lebanese security source has told the Reuters news agency.

The senior source said the militant group had ordered 5,000 beepers which several other sources said were brought into Lebanon in the spring.

The same source claimed that the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level”.

A second security source told Reuters that up to three grammes of explosives were hidden in the new pagers that went “undetected” by Hezbollah for months.

Details from the Reuters report are similar to one by the New York Times, which citied American and other officials.

Images of the destroyed devices analysed by Reuters showed a format and stickers that were consistent with the 924 model of pagers made by Gold Apollo – a Taiwan-based company.

The firm’s founder, Hsu Ching-Kuang, said the devices were actually made under licence in Europe using the Gold Apollo name.

He did not give any further detail on the European company.

The model, like other pagers, wirelessly receives and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.......more......