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| Israel Penetrated Hizbullah Phones, Using Austrian Numbers, Report |
| 2010-11-27 |
| [An Nahar] Israel has reportedly penetrated Hizbullah cell phones, using Austrian numbers. As-Safir newspaper on Friday uncovered what it dubbed "serious chapters" on Israel's ability to control Leb's telecoms sector by creating phone numbers that coincide with each other on a single phone line without the knowledge of its owner, "thus fabricating fake calls at different locations at different times." It said that the Lebanese army intelligence bureau along with a number of employees at the telecoms ministry as well as members of the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... 's security service have formed a teamwork that was able to cope with Israel's techniques and advanced software through several tests and tryouts. These tryouts have shown Israel's penetration to telephone lines belonging to cadres of the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... , the report said. It said the discovery came in April 2009, when police intelligence chief Col. Wissam al-Hasan presented the case file of "Israel spy" Adib al-Alam to head of Hizbullah's coordination and liaison committee Wafiq Safa. Hasan, at the time, pointed out that a Hizbullah member was involved in spying for Israel. After examining the data submitted to Hizbullah by the army's intelligence bureau, the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... with the help of technical experts, concluded that Israel has programmed "alternate phone lines" to Resistance members via SMSes using Austrian numbers, As-Safir reported. It said using this process, Israel was able to eavesdrop on Hizbullah phone activity "via silent SMSes under the number 03-764 313." The report said an investigation conducted by Hizbullah, in cooperation with the Lebanese army intelligence bureau and the telecoms ministry, showed that the suspicious phone numbers existed during long periods of time and that they coincided with the presence of intensive SMS activity between the targeted numbers and foreign numbers located inside the border with Israel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Austrian phone numbers were also used in the Dubai assassination. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-11-27 09:01 |