以色列参与了寻呼机的生产在真主党特工身上爆炸本周,一名美国情报人员向美国广播公司证实,这种“供应链拦截”行动已经计划了至少15年。
消息人士称,中情局长期以来不愿意采用这种策略,因为对无辜者来说风险太高。
知情人士向美国广播公司证实,策划这次袭击的有空壳公司,多层以色列情报官员及其资产面对一家生产寻呼机的合法公司,至少一些从事这项工作的人不知道他们实际上在为谁工作。
以色列参与了制造业首次报道被纽约时报报道。
根据消息来源,一到两盎司的炸药和一个遥控触发开关被植入传呼机。
据黎巴嫩卫生部长菲拉斯·阿比德(firas Al-aby ad)称,黎巴嫩过去两天的爆炸由寻呼机或对讲机内的爆炸物远程引发,已造成至少37人死亡,2,931人受伤。
真主党和以色列之间的冲突周四变宽了以色列对黎巴嫩发动袭击,真主党进行还击。
ABC新闻已经联系了总部设在匈牙利的BAC咨询公司,该公司签约为台湾的Gold Apollo生产寻呼机,但两家公司都没有回应我们的多次请求。
匈牙利政府的一名发言人周三告诉ABC新闻,这些寻呼机从未在匈牙利出现,该公司是“一家贸易中介,在匈牙利没有制造或运营场所”。
真主党领导人哈桑·纳斯鲁拉在星期四的一次讲话中说,该组织的最高领导层使用的是旧寻呼机,而不是袭击中使用的新寻呼机。据报道,这些寻呼机是在过去六个月里运来的。该组织已经开始对爆炸进行全面调查。
纳斯鲁拉说:“并非所有的传呼机都已分发,其中一些已经关机。”。
“在两天的时间里,敌人想要杀死至少5000人。...敌人知道传呼机有4000个,”他补充道。
Israel had hand in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon: Source
Israel had a hand in the manufacturing of pagersthat exploded on Hezbollah operativesthis week, with this type of "supply chain interdiction" operation having been planned for at least 15 years, a U.S. intelligence source confirmed to ABC News.
The CIA has long been reluctant to employ this tactic because the risk to innocents was too high, the source said.
Planning for the attack involved shell companies, with multiple layers of Israeli intelligence officers and their assets fronting a legitimate company that produced the pagers, the source confirmed to ABC News, with at least some of those doing the work unaware of who they were actually working for.
Israel's hand in the manufacturing wasfirst reportedby The New York Times.
One to two ounces of explosives and a remote trigger switch to set off the blast were planted in the pagers, according to the sources.
The last two days of explosions in Lebanon, triggered remotely with explosives inside pagers or walkie-talkies, have killed at least 37 people and wounded 2,931, according to Lebanese Health Minister Firass Al-Abyad.
The conflict between Hezbollah and Israelgrew wider on Thursday, with Israel launching strikes on Lebanon and Hezbollah returning fire.
ABC News has reached out to BAC Consulting -- the Hungary-based company contracted to produce the pagers on behalf of Gold Apollo in Taiwan -- but neither company has responded to our repeated requests.
The pagers were never in Hungary and the company was "a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary," a spokesperson for the Hungarian government told ABC News on Wednesday.
In a speech Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the group's top leadership had old pagers, not the new ones used in the attack, which were reportedly shipped in the last six months. The group has begun a full investigation into the explosions.
"Not all of the pagers had been distributed and some of them were turned off," Nasrallah said.
"Over two days, the enemy wanted to kill at least 5,000 people. ... The enemy knew that the pager devices numbered 4,000," he added.