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In what appears to be\u00a0a sophisticated, remote attack<\/a>, pagers used by hundreds of members of Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria Tuesday,\u00a0killing at least nine people<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including an 8-year-old girl \u2014 and wounding thousands more.<\/p>\n

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The Iran-backed militant group blamed Israel for the deadly explosions, which targeted an extraordinary breadth of people and showed signs of being a long-planned operation. How the attack was executed is largely uncertain and investigators have not immediately said how the pagers were detonated. The Israeli military has declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we know so far.<\/p>\n

Why were pagers used in the attack?<\/h4>\n

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah previously warned the group\u2019s members not to carry cellphones, saying they could be used by Israel to track the group\u2019s movements. As a result, the organization uses pagers to communicate.<\/p>\n

A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the exploded devices were from a new brand the group had not used before. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press, did not identify the brand name or supplier.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Reese, adjunct instructor at the Center for Global Affairs in New York University\u2019s School of Professional Studies, explains smart phones carry a higher risk for intercepted communications in contrast to the more simple technology of pagers.<\/p>\n

This type of attack will also force Hezbollah to change their communication strategies, said Reese, who previously worked as an intelligence officer, adding that survivors of Tuesday\u2019s explosions are likely to throw away \u201cnot just their pagers, but their phones, and leaving their tablets or any other electronic devices.\u201d<\/p>\n

How could sabotage cause these pagers to explode?<\/h4>\n

With little disclosed from investigators so far, multiple theories have emerged Tuesday around how the attack might have been carried out. Several experts who spoke with The Associated Press suggest that the explosions were most likely the result of supply-chain interference.<\/p>\n

Very small explosive devices may have been built into the pagers prior to their delivery to Hezbollah, and then all remotely triggered simultaneously, possibly with a radio signal.<\/p>\n

By the time of the attack, \u201cthe battery was probably half-explosive and half-actual battery,\u201d said Carlos Perez, director of security intelligence at TrustedSec.<\/p>\n

A former British Army bomb disposal officer explained that an explosive device has five main components: A container, a battery, a triggering device, a detonator and an explosive charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cA pager has three of those already,\u201d explained the ex-officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he now works as a consultant with clients on the Middle East. \u201cYou would only need to add the detonator and the charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

After security camera footage appeared on social media Tuesday purporting to show one of the pagers explode on a man\u2019s hip in a Lebanese market, two munitions experts also said that the blast appeared to be the result of a tiny explosive device.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at the video, the size of the detonation is similar to that caused by an electric detonator alone or one that incorporates an extremely small, high-explosive charge,\u201d said Sean Moorhouse, a former British Army officer and explosive ordinance disposal expert.<\/p>\n

This signals involvement of a state actor, Moorhouse said. He adds that Israel\u2019s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, is the most obvious suspect to have the resources to carry out such an attack.<\/p>\n

N.R. Jenzen-Jones, an expert in military arms who is director of the Australian-based Armament Research Services, agreed that the scale and sophistication of the attack \u201calmost certainly points to a state actor,\u201d and that Israel had been accused of carrying out such operations in the past. Last year, AP reported that Iran accused Israel of trying to\u00a0sabotage its ballistic missile program through faulty foreign parts that could explode<\/a>, damaging or destroying the weapons before they could be used.<\/p>\n

How long was this operation?<\/h4>\n

It would take a long time to plan an attack of this scale. The exact specifics are still unknown, but experts who spoke with the AP shared estimates ranging anywhere between several months to two years.<\/p>\n

The sophistication of the attack suggests that whoever is behind it has been collecting intelligence for a long time, Reese explained. An attack of this caliber requires building the relationships needed to gain physical access to the pagers before they were sold; developing the technology that would be embedded in the devices; and developing sources who can confirm that the targets were carrying the pagers.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s likely the compromised pagers seemed normal to their users for some time before the attack. Elijah J. Magnier, a Brussels-based veteran and a senior political risk analyst with over 37 years experience in the region, said he has had conversations with members of Hezbollah and survivors of Tuesday\u2019s pager attack. He said the pagers were procured more than six months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pagers functioned perfectly for six months,\u201d Magnier said. What triggered the explosion, he said, appeared to be an error message sent to all the devices.<\/p>\n

Based on his conversations with Hezbollah members, Magnier also said that many pagers didn\u2019t go off, allowing the group to inspect them. They came to the conclusion that between 3 to 5 grams of a highly explosive material were concealed or embedded in the circuitry, he said.<\/p>\n

What else could have happened?<\/h4>\n

Another possibility is that malware could have been inserted into the operating system of the pagers \u2014 somehow causing the device batteries to all overload at a specific time, causing them to burst into flame.<\/p>\n

According to a Hezbollah official and Lebanese security officials, the pagers first heated up and then exploded in the pockets, or the hands, of those carrying them Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

These pagers run on lithium ion batteries, the Hezboolah official said, claiming the devices exploded as the result of being targeted from an Israeli \u201csecurity operation,\u201d without elaborating further.<\/p>\n

When overheated, lithium ion batteries can smoke, melt and even catch on fire. Rechargeable lithium batteries are used in consumer products ranging from cellphones and laptops to electric cars. Lithium battery fires can burn up to 590 C (1,100 F).<\/p>\n

Still, Moorhouse and others noted that images and video footage seen Tuesday more strongly resembled the detonation of small explosive charge, not an overheating battery.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lithium ion battery fire is one thing, but I\u2019ve never seen one explode like that. It looks like a small explosive charge,\u201d said Alex Plitsas, a weapons expert at the Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n

Among those pointing to the likelihood of a supply chain attack is Jenzen-Jones, who adds that \u201csuch a large-scale operation also raises questions of targeting\u201d \u2014 stressing the number of causalities and enormous impact reported so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can the party initiating the explosive be sure that a target\u2019s child, for example, is not playing with the pager at the time it functions?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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