Hezbollah’s exploding pagers were manufactured by a shell company created by Israeli spies in 2022: NYT
- BAC Consulting, the company that sold explosive-laden pagers to Hezbollah, was actually an Israeli shell company, as reported by The New York Times from unnamed sources.
- The pagers, produced separately for Hezbollah, contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN, according to the report.
- Following Hassan Nasrallah's speech promoting pagers, Israel allegedly triggered the devices, leading to explosions that killed twelve and injured nearly 3,000 people in Lebanon and Syria.
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Israel Used Shell Company to Make Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers: New York Times Report
An ambulance arrives at a hospital as thousands of people, mainly Hezbollah fighters, were wounded on Sept. 17, 2024 when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir A Hungary-based company suspected of supplying Hezbollah with the pagers that exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday was actually an Israeli shell company established by Israeli spies, The New York Times reported on Thursday citing three Ame…
Hezbollah pagers manufactured by Israeli shell company, rigged with explosives: NYT report
Sources told The Times that Israeli shell company BAC Consulting was licensed to make Taiwanese-designed pagers, producing both legitimate devices and those for Hezbollah containing plastic explosives
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