It literally took a shipment of real pagers, filled them with explosives and altered the firmware to overheat the battery within a specific time period, then delivered them to be released into the consumer market where anyone could buy them, including at least 1 10 year old girl.
"They registered a company in Hungary, entered into a reseller / licensing deal with the pager producers, brokered a contract to supply pagers to Lebanese, took delivery of the shipment, altered them all and delivered as arranged."
"They registered a company in Hungary, entered into a reseller / licensing deal with the pager producers, brokered a contract to supply pagers to Lebanese, took delivery of the shipment, altered them all and delivered as arranged."