Di Ex-Mossad agents don reveal how dem take turn Hezbollah’s communications devices to bombs

Some key details of di Israeli intelligence service’s operation wey don target members of Hezbollah wit exploding pagers and walkie-talkies for September don dey revealed.

Israel no initially admit before di responsibility for di blasts but dem don always acknowledge say dem dey behind dem although exactly how dem orchestrate am still remain mysterious.

Di new information about di campaign be say, two recently retired senior Mossad agents don provide details, wey dey  talk wit di 60 Minutes interview wey both of dem dey wear masks while dem dey interviewed and give false names.

Di first wave of explosions, inside September 17, target pagers wey Hezbollah dey use.

Around 3:30 PM, local time, e com be like say di pagers dey triggered simultaneously, by some specific message.

Di message be one wey dey look, at least, as if e dey sent by Hezbollah leadership.

Di detonation don happen wit slight delay.

Di second wave of explosions, for di following day, target walkie-talkies wey Hezbollah dey use.

In total, thousands of devices wey di militant group dey use dey targeted.

As e fit dey expected for operation so complex like dis, e take years to shape am, wit di two Mossad agents wey dia name na “Michael” and “Gabriel” apparently na dem be di key players for di planning.

According to report, work to take weaponize di walkie-talkies start more than decade before di attacks.

E already dey expected say di batteries of di devices na him dem dey used to take carry di explosives, confirmed by Michael, wey note say di walkie-talkies, particularly, say dem chose am since dem fit do di chest pockets of tactical vests wey di militants dey use.

As for di batteries, dis dem make for Israel for Mossad facility, Michael talk, and dem don put more than 16,000 walkie-talkies, not all of which dem use for September 16.

To get dis devices make e reach Hezbollah’s hands, dem sell dem through shell companies, wey don infiltrate di group.

Di chosen price dey low enough to ensure say Hezbollah think say dem dey get good deal, but not too low to arouse suspicion.

Since di walkie-talkies dey expected to dey carried in armored tactical vests, e dey considered less likely bicos say di targeted members of di group go dey wear dem wen dem dey detonated.

Afta all, dem go normally dey wear di vests go wen di militant for question wey dey actually take part for di operation, or dey train for one.

To make di operation more effective, weaponized pagers dey go added to di attack plans, wit work for dis starting much later, in 2022.

For di case of di pagers wey dem dey see as much more reliable weapons, since dem dey carried by di targeted individuals for most times Mossad discover say Hezbollah dey plan to buy plenty devices from Taiwan-based company, Gold Apollo.

Di problem wit di original Gold Apollo pagers na di size, since dem appear to dey too slim to accommodate di explosives required.

Dis com lead to Mossad running extensive tests, including detonating larger pagers for dummies, to calibrate di destructive effect.

According to Gabriel, di amount of explosive don dey calculated to take injure di targeted fighter, but not anyone wey dey next to dem.

While di videos wey show detonations injuring di targeted individual while leaving passersby unscadid, e also dey for di case say oda individuals, wey including at least two children bin don follow die.

For di end, di finished devices dey only able to dey used as bombs, wit no intelligence collection capabilities, Mossad dem claim.

Thought dey given to di pager ring tones, to ensure say dem go sound urgent enough to draw response.

Meanwhile, di timer for di explosive charge dey also calculated for maximum effect, di average time to call up di message for di pager afta hearing di alert na seven seconds, according to Mossad.

According to Gabriel, Barnea, di director of Mossad, dey initially skeptical say di larger and heavier pager go dey attractive to Hezbollah, wey go likely favor lighter and more portable device.

But him dey convinced oda-wise and, meanwhile, Gabriel work for advertising campaign.

“We create pretend world,” Michael explain. “We be global production company.

We write di screenplay, we be di directors, we be di producers, we be di main actors, and di world na our stage.”

Di advertising stress di fact say di pagers dey “robust, dustproof and waterproof, wit long battery life.”

Dis claims dey presented for fake YouTube ads, backed up wit fake online testimonials.

Dis, of course, dey lead to interest from individuals outside Hezbollah, wey Mossad no sell di devices give.

Parts of di strategy to keep dem away from oda customers involve quoting dem exorbitant prices.

Very quickly, Lebanon dey gripped by panic, wit residents, Hezbollah or oda-wise, dey worried about wetin electronic devices go explode next.

For di event, around 30 pipo dey killed, including two children, for di two attacks.

In addition, 3,000 pipo dey injured, wey also part of Mossad’s plan.

“If him just die, so him don die,” Gabriel talk. “But if him dey injured, you go take am to di hospital, take care of am, you need to invest money and effort.”

“And for dose pipo without hands and eyes dey living proof, dey walk for Lebanon, of ‘no mess wit us.’”

According to di former Mossad agents, di operation dey majorly successful, undermining Hezbollah’s fighting capacity, decimating dia leadership and command and control, and paving di way for di Israeli Air Force attacks wey dey strike targets across Lebanon in di days afta.

Before di end of September, dem com kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by airstrike for Beirut and ceasefire wit di group wey com into effect for di end of November.

Di retired Mossad agents wey dey speak to news men dey clearly buoyed about di success of di operation wey target walkie-talkies and pagers, and by di diminished fighting capacity of Hezbollah.

For di same time, di Israel Defense Forces dey also steadily erode Hamas, wit relentless campaign of bombardment for Gaza.

More recently, di collapse of di Assad regime for Syria don prompt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dey speak of changing order for di region, wit di heart ripped out of three of Iran’s key proxies dire.

“Afta Hamas, Hezbollah, and di Assad regime for Syria, di Houthis almost di last remaining arm of Iran’s axis of evil,” Netanyahu talk last week.

“Di Houthis learn, and go learn di hard way, say those wey strike Israel go pay very heavy price for am.”

As to di question of wetin Mossad go do next, we fit only guess.

But wetin dey clear be say di exploding walkie-talkies and pagers dey very unlikely to be attempted again.

“We no fit use di pagers again bicos we don already do dat,” Michael talk.

“We don already move on to di next thing. And dem go get to keep on trying to guess wetin di next thing be.”

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