Beirut. Last month, Israel surprised everyone with a pager attack on Hezbollah. Everyone was surprised to think how Israel turned such a small looking pager into a walking bomb. Now an important report in this matter has been published by an agency, in which, quoting Lebanese sources, it has been explained in detail about the Israeli technology of converting a pager into a bomb.
Hezbollah investigated the presence of explosives after receiving the pager in February. Put them through airport security scanners to see if they trigger an alarm. Nothing suspicious was reported. Two bomb experts said the devices were set to generate a spark inside the battery pack, enough to ignite the explosive material, and trigger the sheet to detonate. Because the explosive and its cover took up about a third of the volume, the battery pack contained a fraction of the power, corresponding to a weight of 35 grams.
In fact, the agents making the pager had designed a battery in which a small but powerful charge of plastic explosive and a new detonator were hidden, which is not even possible to see. Both the secret design of the pager bomb and the battery’s carefully constructed cover story were explained in detail. This entire operation was completed not in a day or two or a month, but after years of hard work. Six grams of white pentaerythritol tetranitrate plastic explosive was used in it. A thin square sheet was used along with it. The cells of both were squeezed together. It was reported that the remaining space between the battery cells was occupied by a strip of highly flammable material, which acted as a detonator. Photographs of the entire process were also shown, which showed that the three-layer sandwich was put into a black plastic sleeve and a metal cover about the size of a matchbox. Two bomb experts said the assembly was unusual because it did not rely on a standard small detonator or the usual metal cylinder.