A review by a semi-retired paging wireless carrier manager and researcher of methods of the American Intelligence Community, and how they relate to this incident
The following New York Times story was a top alert on Google News today and (supposedly) tells the story of how Israel built a modern-day Trojan Horse:
After reviewing it and seeing one of the videos of the events, I have to stick with my original assessment in my article.
An intelligence agency, in order to continue to hide their authentic method(s) used in any operation would gladly admit to something else for the public consumption. The goal here is two-fold, to keep their historical targets from realizing the true method used against them, and to keep future or other current targets yet unaware (read this as mostly common citizenry, i.e. you and me). News organizations have long been infiltrated (or influenced, if you want a less intrusive definition) by the American Intelligence Community to put out their preferred stories of their operations.
Ultimately, it is up to the reader to sort through the quagmire, so I offer the link to the Times article for your perusal if you missed it.
In the interest of fairness:
The following New York Times story was a top alert on Google News today and (supposedly) tells the story of how Israel built a modern-day Trojan Horse:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html
After reviewing it and seeing one of the videos of the events, I have to stick with my original assessment in my article.
An intelligence agency, in order to continue to hide their authentic method(s) used in any operation would gladly admit to something else for the public consumption. The goal here is two-fold, to keep their historical targets from realizing the true method used against them, and to keep future or other current targets yet unaware (read this as mostly common citizenry, i.e. you and me). News organizations have long been infiltrated (or influenced, if you want a less intrusive definition) by the American Intelligence Community to put out their preferred stories of their operations.
Ultimately, it is up to the reader to sort through the quagmire, so I offer the link to the Times article for your perusal if you missed it.