"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.
what a load of horseshit. "it's not ours, but we represented to everyone that it was." if you let someone put your brand on it, it's fucking yours.
Is that what they mean, or do they mean that the pagers were counterfeit?
They definitely should not have been using any kind of electronics made by a west-aligned country. Which is much easier said than done. I wonder if Israel was able to determine that the devices were going to Hezbollah? Or was it just any pagers being shipped to the region? I'd imagine supply chain stuff for any non-western organization is pretty difficult.
they were made by a European firm with the right to use its brand.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gold-apollo-says-budapest-based-bac-produces-model-of-pagers-used-in-lebanon-blasts/87568553
The model of pagers used in detonations in Lebanon were made by Budapest-based BAC Consulting, Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said on Wednesday, adding it had only licensed out its brand to the company and was not involved in the production of the devices.
Is Europe a target for Hezbollah retaliation?
Looks like they took their website down. https://www.bacconsulting.org/
90% is the most generic stock photo yadda yadda but then..NYC, UN representative....some big chops for a very very young looking Phd Board member to some high level stuff.
CRISTIANA ARCIDIACONO-BÁRSONY, Ph.D.
I am also grateful to Advocate Environmental and Social Causes for Developing and Fragile Countries: Board Member for the Earth Child Institute (NYC), Initiative More Water for the Sahel (Paris), Board member Foundation for Post-Conflict Development (NYC), UN Representative Working Group Business for Peace, UN Global COMPACT (NYC). I love promoting people's involvement in advocating for a change!
Maybe they can pick up an x-ray scanner on AliExpress while they're at it
