pager

That dumb jab refers to an Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah members in Lebanon whose pagers had explosives planted inside them.

BBC Monitoring listened to that Russian output on the day thousands of pagers and radio devices exploded last month.

Here, we’re in a world of phone booths, pagers and bulky computers no one knows how to work, of Walkmans and videotape, which both simplifies and complicates the action.

The recent turmoil in Lebanon started on 17 and 18 September, when waves of pager blasts killed at least 32 and left more than 5,000 injured, both Hezbollah fighters and civilians.

Israel remotely exploded booby-trapped pagers and radios, destroying Hezbollah’s communications and killing leaders.