A FIRM linked to exploding pagers in Lebanon is registered to an anonymous, shabby apartment block in Bulgarian capital Sofia.
Norta Global Ltd is among hundreds of foreign companies listed at a ground floor attorney’s office there.
AFPNorta Global Ltd, the firm linked to exploding pagers in Lebanon, is registered to this shabby apartment block in Sofia, Bulgaria[/caption]
X/RulaelhalabiA damaged device discarded on the ground[/caption]
Bulgarian security agency Dans entered the building yesterday as it said it will probe any links to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah.
The devices exploded across Lebanon in coordinated attacks this week.
Bulgarian media reported Norta Global took delivery of parts from Taiwan before manufacturing the pagers.
At some stage, they were turned into weapons.
Hungarian company BAC Consulting was also linked but said it was only an “intermediary” to a deal with a Taiwanese supplier.
Norta Global chief Rinson Jose has fled to the US.
A source said: “His colleagues have tried to reach him, but he’s on business in America and is not answering calls.”
AFPPeople gather as fire fighters put out the fames at the scene of a reported device explosion in Lebanon[/caption]
GettyFuneral of pager blast victims in Lebanon[/caption]
Israel launched spy movie pager plot to lure Hezbollah into war…& destroy them once and for all, ex-Mossad agent warns
BY James Halpin, Foreign News Reporter
ISRAEL’S pager plot could be inspired by a spy film and the country is goading Hezbollah into starting a war, an ex-Mossad agent says.
Nearly 3,000 people were injured on Tuesday and 12 were killed in the sabotage attack leaving Lebanon in chaos and hospitals full of bloodied and injured.
Avner Avraham claims Israel is directly challenging Hezbollah to start a war in retaliation, so it can then invade Lebanon and wipe them out.
Avraham says the chess move attack was Israel saying: “Don’t mess with us”.
He said: “The attack on Tuesday was so strong and wide if they [Hezbollah] do start a limited war, they will lose immediately.
“In the north, we have to start a limited war and we prefer that Hezbollah would make the first mistake.
“The response would be a huge damage to Lebanon, it would go 100 years back.”
But, the 28-year spy veteran says Hezbollah has been left weak with so many people injured and Lebanon plunged into chaos.
“Now they don’t have a different kind of communication system, all their hospitals are full with injured people, this is the best time to attack them.”
Avraham said he believed Israel needed to attack Lebanon and create a “dead zone” inside the country where nobody lived.
That buffer would provide safety for the Israelis living in the north of the country – tens of thousands of whom have been displaced since fighting began last year.
“To bring back the families to the north, you cannot bring them to the world without destroying and pushing all the Hezbollah from the border.”
Avraham also said it is possible that the attack could have been inspired by gadgets used in spy films, something he did as an agent.
“Sometimes we use examples ideas from James Bond films, we took ideas, I can tell you this for sure.
He said: “No one could write the script for Tuesday. This is the real example of thinking outside the box… All the world saw what happened Tuesday, this is the money time.
“If Mossad is doing something and wants to declare it, they will declare it… In all cases they just do it and disappear.
“That’s the whole idea, you don’t know who is responsible for this, you don’t have any idea.”