Less than 24 hours from what could be defined the first selective cyber attack with real consequences, the first speculations about real data and distancing have begun. The Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, the manufacturer of the devices that exploded simultaneously yesterday in Lebanon, Syria and some unconfirmed reports say also in Iran, has declared that the BAC Consulting KFT based in Budapest, Hungary had the license to use its brand and produced the pager model purchased by some fixers who then turned it over to Hezbollah.
Unconfirmed reports do not rule out BAC Consulting KFT being a Mossad shell companybut not even the person who invented it believes it. There is also a rumor that the operation should have been carried out by the Israeli services only in the case of an open war but that it was brought forward because someone at the top of Hezbollah he had begun to become suspicious of how the equipment was working.
Even this unverified news, which we report for the sake of accuracy, is not very credible. More credible, however, is what was reported by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jaridanamely that three of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s closest officials were fatally wounded in the pager attack. Nasrallah himself was not injured only because he is subject to very strict security procedures. NYT reports that the Iranian regime’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amanilost one eye and was seriously injured in the other when a pager he was carrying exploded.
This news contrasts with the downplaying by Tehran which yesterday had announced that the injuries were minor. The ambassador was transported in medical evacuation to Tehran. The question that no one asks is: why did the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, that is, the official of a nation in another nation, have one of Hezbollah’s pagers? That is, of a terrorist organization in a foreign land? It might seem normal to some, but believe me, it is not.
If during the Years of Lead it had been discovered that the Russian ambassador in Italy had in his hands an apparatus of the Red Brigades or that in the Federal Republic of Germany an apparatus of the Baader Meinhof gang, the Rote Armee Faktion, what reactions would there have been? Even if it doesn’t seem so, the gravity is the same. To understand it, it would be enough to open your eyes. The famous Syrian Druze journalist Fitzal Al-Qassem, who has millions of followers and a program on Al Jazeera He did not hide the scale of the blow suffered by Hezbollah: “What happened today to Hezbollah can be classified as the largest preemptive strike in modern history. It can be compared to Israel’s preemptive strike on the Egyptian Air Force before the Six-Day War.”
According to Lebanese hospital reports, Hezbollah today has thousands of paraplegics among its elite ranks and if a war with Israel were to break out, its wounded would not even find a free hospital bed because the hospitals are full. To this we must also add that Hezbollah has lost its means of communication, those that it thought were secure. The last press release before I started writing reports that 11 Hezbollah terrorists eliminated5 thousand are injured, 500 of them very seriously.
Another 500 have lost their sight, 1500 have lost their “family jewels” or have been injured in those areas, 300 of them have lost their external ears and hearing. Finally, many are the disabled people placed on leave by Hezbollah in the last hours. In the morning they started again missile launches from Lebanon towards Israeland this is a sign that after yesterday’s events the war has only had a moment’s pause. The Israeli war cabinet will meet this afternoon to decide on new and possible.
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