Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah
Entrepreneur Hsu Ching-kuang was once lauded in Taiwan for resuscitating the archaic electronic pager, in part by pivoting into sales to foreign governments. At one point, he claimed his company, Gold Apollo, dominated 99% of the Dutch pager market and even counted the FBI as a client.
But on Wednesday, he faced an onslaught of police officers and journalists outside his office in northern Taiwan, after Gold Apollo was linked to hundreds of pagers belonging to members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that simultaneously exploded Tuesday across Lebanon and in parts of Syria, which Lebanon’s health minister says killed 12 people and injured nearly 3,000. A U.S. official told NPR that Israel told the U.S. it carried out the attack. The Israeli government has not commented publicly.