by Janet Phelan, Activist Post:

In some recent feature films, cell phones have been depicted as a delivery vehicle for lethal attacks. And now we come to find that a similar sort of attack, via hand-held devices, was planned and executed against Hezbollah by Israel.

This has resulted in an international flurry of response, including UN accusations that this constitutes a war crime by Israel, as well as some publicly voiced congratulations on the ingenuity of the attack, which took place on September 17 and 18 and reportedly injured at least 2800 people and killed at least nine. However, a key ingredient is missing from the dialogue. If hand-held devices, such as walkie talkies or pagers, can be implanted with explosives and can kill targets, how safe are any of us from this mode of attack?