The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country earlier this year.
Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe that had the right to use the Taipei-based firm’s brand, the name of which he could not immediately confirm.”
The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,” he told reporters on Wednesday, without naming the company which did make the devices.
Source: Israel Hezbollah War: 3 Grams Of Explosives Per Pager: Israel’s Complex Op To Hurt Hezbollah
Focusing on the branding is missing the point. The CIA was caught intercepting shipments of Cisco and Juniper networking gear and installing backdoors into them before letting them continuing on their way to customers. The Mossad could have done the same here. The lesson here, to “high interest targets,” is not to trust the supply chain. This is a trick that only works once. So why did they choose to do it now, and to this group of people? That’s the real question here.