Today in Lebanon/Syria, around 1530 (330 PM) local time, a message that appeared to come from the Hezbollah leadership arrived on the pagers. At that point, the pagers chirped/rang a few times and then exploded.
(NYT)
The genius military operation of all time except for God’s angel killing more than 180,000 of the Godless heathen back in Israel’s glory days.
And those that are still alive are identified...
Gee another pager thread. How nice. What, is this thread number 27?
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The feel-good story of the week. Beautiful.
And now every member of Hezbollah will be afraid to answer a page, forever.
And how much collateral damage was done by these exploding pages?
More importantly, what is going to be the response from Hezbollah on this, and will it lead to a wider war in the Middle East.
Have Joe and Kamala sent their condolences yet?
There is no such thing as a terrorist specific pager. This indiscriminate attack does not have my support. This actually seems like a terrorist attack to me. I’m willing to listen to explanations but to me it doesn’t sound good.
>> 4,000 Hezbollah Terrorists injured
soon to be dead?
The real trick here was to, after modifying the pagers, send them on their way, with nobody noticing the delay, or at least not checking in to it, or the tracking, with due diligence.
I wonder if Hezbollah was about to make a big move, because if I had something like this set up, pulling the trigger to disrupt a major Hezbollah attack about to begin would make a lot of sense.
So, how did Israel learn of this shipment? Among the possibilities:
* Divine revelation
* a mole, in Hezbollah or Taiwan
* surveillance
If this is true this is beyond amazing… Israel is a whole other level of
Eff around and find out.
They have likely had this capacity for years and have been sitting on it.
Lord know what else they have waiting to unleash.
Absolutely breathtaking.
What episode of “Hogans Heroes” did they get this from?
This is why Paulie never used the phone. Even still he got a one year stretch for contempt of court, followed by a seven year stretch in the federal pen
A brilliant and perfectly executed precision strike. Some of the Gold Apollo AP series pagers run on 2 AA cells, but the model involved, AR-924, has a lithium-ion battery. It’s common for cheap 18650 cells from China to be fakes - instead of having the advertised 2200mAh (or whatever) capacity advertized, they’ve got a tiny Li-Poly cell inside that will work but which has a 1/4 to 1/3 the rated capacity. The only way to tell is by weight, so the fakers started adding filler so they weigh what a real battery does.
Substitute explosive for filler material and add a simple trigger circuit and you’ve got the perfect anti-personnel weapon.
As for those panty-wadders who make up theories about collateral damage: prove it. There’s be no report of such, and given how pagers are worn/carried it would require close physical proximity. And if so, tough. Collateral damage is inevitable in war. Worry about suicide vests and drone strikes instead.
Amir also says this.....
Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions, social media posts, electronic communications, news footage, and medical records, linking them all to people who had these pagers today. Forget the injuries and deaths; Israel just created a massive and growing trove of information about both known and previously unknown Hezbollah militants, as well as their supporters, partners, friends, family members, colleagues, workplaces, vehicles, and homes.
They just created an incredibly dense and *up-to-date* social graph of an entire terrorist network, across Lebanon as well as neighboring countries. It is incredible what they just did.
(Imagine being in a dark room with a massive Christmas tree in it. The tree has thousands of electric lights strewn all over it, but they’re unlit because the wall plug is not plugged into the wall socket.)