Yuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.
A region fearing all-out war may have been taken to the brink by a legion of pagers. But the wave of explosions in supermarkets and streets across Lebanon on Tuesday constituted a stunning mass attack that reverberated far beyond the Beirut suburb that is home to their target, the militant and political group Hezbollah.
“Those devices, which may have been used for emergency communication, particularly in case of full-scale war with Israel, would also have been distributed among key commanders from the low-ranking field officer to the higher echelon of the group,” Horowitz said. “We can expect that a lot of them will no longer be able to carry out their military duties.
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