UP ITS MEMBERS’ PAGERS ACROSS LEBANON. AS RAF SANCHEZ
REPORTS, IT COMES AMID
FEARS OF A WIDER WAR
IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT,
EXPLOSIONS LIKE THIS
ACROSS LEBANON AS THE
HEZBOLLAH MILITANT
GROUP SAYS HUNDREDS OF
PAGERS BELONGING TO
ITS MEMBERS DETONATED
SIMULTANEOUSLY.
CALL IT A MASSIVE
COORDINATED ATTACK AND
BLAMING ISRAEL.
LOOK AGAIN.
THE EXPLOSION INJURES
THE MAN WITH THE
PAGER, BUT CAUSES
ALMOST NO DAMAGE
AROUND HIM.
LEBANON SAYS ALMOST
3,000 PEOPLE WERE
WOUNDED, INCLUDING THE
IRANIAN AMBASSADOR AND
AT LEAST NINE KILLED,
AMONG THEM SEVERAL
CHILDREN.
IRANIAN-BACKED
HEZBOLLAH USES PAGERS
TO AVOID ISRAELI
SURVEILLANCE.
ISRAEL TONIGHT
REFUSING TO SAY IF IT
WAS BEHIND WHAT
APPEARS TO BE AN
UNPRECEDENTED
INTELLIGENCE
OPERATION.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN
ANYTHING ON THIS SCALE
BEFORE?
>> NO, NO, I HAVEN’T.
IT REALLY IS A
REMARKABLE SORT OF
MILESTONE IN THE
PANTHEON OF
INTELLIGENCE SECURITY
ACTIVITIES.
>> Reporter: HOURS
EARLIER, ISRAEL SAID
IT FOILED A HEZBOLLAH
ASSASSINATION PLOT
USING A LAND MINE.
THE LATEST ESCALATION
IN A CONFLICT MANY
FEAR IS NOW SPIRALING
TOWARDS ALL-OUT WAR.
AND HEZBOLLAH IS
VOWING IT WILL