Fleitz to Newsmax: Beepers Likely Easier Than Phones for Explosives

Warfare where beepers could explode is much more likely than a cell phone being caused to blow up, former Trump National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz told Newsmax on Tuesday, regarding pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members almost simultaneously exploding in Lebanon and Syria.

“Let’s talk about what happened here,” Fleitz told “Prime News.” “Pagers are fairly primitive devices. They have large battery cases with batteries. They’re usually held together with screws.”

Fleitz surmised that the Israelis were able to construct a small electronic component with a high explosive that could be inserted into the battery compartment, or possibly reconstructed a battery to put a bomb inside.

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