phone calls from hell

[Duncan Frissell]

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