Rather than ask "how did they do it", ask "how can it be done?" All electronic communication devices include a battery, which is an innocuous and sealed component typically obtained from a dedicated manufacturer/supplier. If an intelligence service were to fund (or purchase) a battery manufacturing business that was legitimate in most respects, it could then use these facilities on covert basis (perhaps on weekends or nighttime) to co-manufacture an explosive variant that otherwise appears identical to existing products. Then it's just a matter of having the right people in place to selectively move these lethal components into the supply change and toward targeted buyers. My guess is that need-to-know would also apply, and that many of these accomplices had limited knowledge of what was planned. Finally, there is evidence that a US military special purpose communications aircraft may have been involved in triggering the pagers, which would make the US complicit in this attack. The shoe bomber begat the TSA. I wonder how the pager attack is going to effect pager and smart phone sales from now on?
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Rather than ask "how did they do it", ask "how can it be done?" All electronic communication devices include a battery, which is an innocuous and sealed component typically obtained from a dedicated manufacturer/supplier. If an intelligence service were to fund (or purchase) a battery manufacturing business that was legitimate in most respects, it could then use these facilities on covert basis (perhaps on weekends or nighttime) to co-manufacture an explosive variant that otherwise appears identical to existing products. Then it's just a matter of having the right people in place to selectively move these lethal components into the supply change and toward targeted buyers. My guess is that need-to-know would also apply, and that many of these accomplices had limited knowledge of what was planned. Finally, there is evidence that a US military special purpose communications aircraft may have been involved in triggering the pagers, which would make the US complicit in this attack. The shoe bomber begat the TSA. I wonder how the pager attack is going to effect pager and smart phone sales from now on?
Tech guru worked in London for immigration company!! Would that be MI6
Could be.
Could it be Mossad or both?
Why not all three? Include CIA. After all, he's being hidden in the US currently.
Good point and reminder. Yes, of course, the CIA.
International man of mystery. How do you end up with that career? “My expertise is in going around the world setting up shell companies.”
I think you know the answer.