Did Israel Really Plant Fake Telco Evidence To Implicate Hezbollah

Hezbollah M.P. Hassan Fadlallah:

After a lengthy, complex investigation … it was revealed that three resistance members were using local mobile phones which had been deliberately sold to them after being implanted with secret Israeli lines

He said this while standing next to the minister of telecommunications, a political ally of Hezbollah (At that point, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was a coincidence that Hezbollah and its allies got both the ministry of Telecommunications and the chairmanship of parliament’s media and telecommunications committee.)

I’m no technical expert, but here’s the testimony of someone who seems to understand these things:

The phone records would be extraordinarily difficult to fake: mobile phones send location signals out to surrounding towers constantly, whether in use or not. To fake that constant communication over all of Beirut over a period of months would border on the impossible, especially since many of the phones would also be generating their normal traffic.

What we really need are impartial engineers who can with certainty tell us if Hezbollah’s allegations are laughable or plausible. Keep in mind though that we shouldn’t underestimate the capabilities of those who created Stuxnet.