How Israel Planted Explosives in Thousands of Hezbollah Pagers

Israel’s intelligence service planted explosives in several thousand pagers that Hezbollah had ordered from Taiwan, Reuters has reported in the wake of deadly pager explosions that killed nine in Lebanon earlier this week. Among those injured in the Tuesday explosions was Iran’s envoy to Lebanon, which might prompt another threat from Iran to Israel in what would be the latest step in a long escalation dance and one more bullish factor for oil amid a scarcity of bullish factors. According to Reuters sources who remained unnamed, “The…