If John Le Carré were still alive1, I have no doubt that he would be having a field day with what has been happening between Israel and Lebanon over the past two weeks.
The events of "pager night" and "walkie talkie night" are mind-boggling when one considers how much planning and preparation must have gone into them. The basic idea, the production of the altered pagers, the setting up of an agent/importer who could supply goods to Hezbolla and then inducing the owners to look at them exactly at the right time (and targeting only pagers that were being held) is breath-taking. The planning and preparation as told in Le Carré's "Little drummer girl", painstaking and inventive as they are, are nothing in comparison to what was required for "pager night".
And then of course, the precision bombing of the Beirut compound in which Nasralla was located depended on information apparently supplied by an Iranian mole.
Truth is stranger than fiction!
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