At 12:48 AM 1/9/96 +0100, Anonymous wrote:

Media reports said that the explosion was set off by remote control when Ayyash answered a call to him. It is not known how the identity of Ayyash was ascertained.

NBC News reported Monday that it was a Motorola phone, that Israel cut the landlines to the house to encourage cellular use, that *the* call came from the Engineer's *father*, and that an Israeli aircraft overhead triggered the blast after assuring itself (by voice info) that the Engineer was using the phone. DCF