Israel's Mossad planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.Israel has not taken responsibility for the explosions.

Officers thwarted an attack in Tel Mond early Wednesday morning after locating a bomb placed in a shopping center, Israel Police later announced.The thwarted attack reportedly had criminal, rather than nationalistic, motives.

Swedish officials said on Wednesday that an airplane carrying Sweden's foreign minister and justice minister has returned to Stockholm after suffering a technical problem while on its way to Turkey. Thus, a key security meeting will be postponed.Sweden's foreign ministry said the crew and passengers were not in any immediate danger. A new date will be set for the meeting.Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard and Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer were due to hold their first meeting with Turkish officials to discuss a security pact agreed to ensure Ankara's approval of Stockholm's NATO membership bid.Turkey approved Sweden's bid to join the military alliance in January after a more than year-long delay over Ankara's concerns about Sweden's stance on groups and individuals it deems terrorists and over an arms embargo that Stockholm later lifted.