It is hard to think of an attack more calculated to sow fear and confusion.
Hezbollah relies heavily on pagers for the group’s communications.
Mobile phones have long since been abandoned as simply too vulnerable - as Israel’s assassination of a Hamas bombmaker demonstrated as long ago as 1996.
But today’s attacks were terrifying in their scope.
Hezbollah members were blown up in supermarkets, on the street, in their cars, at home, next to their children.
Incidents were reported from all across Lebanon, from Beirut to the Bekaa Valley. Even from neighbouring Syria.
Tuesday's blasts, which Hezbollah blames on Israel, look calculated to sow fear and confusion.
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