(New York Times) Patrick Kingsley - Pagers carried by Hizbullah members exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding at least 2,700 others, officials said. Hizbullah has used pagers for years to make it harder for messages to be intercepted. At 3:30 p.m., the pagers received a message that appeared to come from Hizbullah's leadership, before exploding. In Syria, the exploding pagers injured at least 14 people. Among those wounded was Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini. After Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned in February that Israeli operatives could be using members' cellphones to spy on them, he encouraged Hizbullah members to switch to a new system of wireless paging devices.
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