Seven months before Israel’s pager attack, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned his fighters to stop carrying cell phones, calling them a major security vulnerability.
Nasrallah warned:
“Your cell phone is a lethal collaborator.”
“[Israel] does not need human collaborators, because people carry cell phones with them wherever they go.”
“Disable it, bury it, lock it in a metal box.”
“The cell phones you, your wife, and your children hold are the collaborators.”
Hezbollah subsequently shifted to using pagers instead.
