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The Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, did not say how his group would respond to attacks on hand-held devices, which killed dozens when pagers and walkie-talkies exploded.
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Experts are at odds over the question of whether it violates the laws of war to hide explosives in wireless devices that may go off near civilians.
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The deadly explosions were an apparent attack by Israel on members of Hezbollah.
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The Japanese company, Icom, whose name was on handheld radios that exploded in Lebanon said it had discontinued the device a decade ago.
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