repulsewarrior wrote:...3000 injured, 9 dead; apparently the battery is the bomb.
It seems the the bomb was near the battery and it was triggered by a message that looked like it came from top man in Hezbollah. There are plenty of civilians in the casualties too. This is the most cowardly act ever as well as against International Law. But then again Israel has not taken into account International Law so long as America protects her bitch in the UN.
There is no real news as to whether these pagers were actually ordered by Hezbollah or were in general release in Lebanon. Judging by the casualties it was not specific to Hezbollah. It seems when Israelis found out the Hezbollah found out about the pagers they decided to explode all of them and did not care how many civilians got killed or injured in the process. Main injuries are to the hands and eyes. The reason why they decided to put the bombs in the first place is the fact that Hezbollah made no secret of the fact that they stopped using mobile phones and started using pagers.
Judging by the incestuous relationship in the western corporations, it is not hard to see how Israeli secret service managed to intercept some pagers and walkie talkies and plant the bombs in them. They do not care how many civilians they kill, the real question is how long will the west go along with them till they decide they need to stop supply of weapons to Israel. Judging by the American behaviour in the past I put the figure to 2 million killed. They may then suddenly find some conscience and stop the arms supplies.
After the judgment few months ago, the Germans have not awarded any new licenses for arms sales to Israel.