This whole thing has serious "Spy Vs Spy" vibes.
Posted on 09/17/2024 9:05:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In military matters, some tactics have effects far, far beyond the initial impact. The recent, sudden explosions of Hezbollah pagers is one such; no Hezbollah nutcase will ever again look at his pager or cellular phone again without seeing a grenade.
It gets better. Now, a report published in the New York Post reveals that the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, purportedly intercepted Hezbollah's shipment of pagers and loaded them with PETN, a potent high-explosive.
The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted Hezbollah’s shipment of new pagers months ago and rigged them with high explosives — resulting in the stunning attack on the Lebanese terror group Tuesday, according to a new report.
Mossad agents reportedly placed Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, inside the batteries of the pagers, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.
The devices were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat, the sources added.
Now, that's a clever play.
PETN — Pentaerythritol tetranitrate — is structurally similar to nitroglycerine, and like nitroglycerin, it has been around a while, having been created and patented in Germany in 1894, and used in military applications by Germany in World Wars 1 and 2. The use of a German-created high explosive by Mossad to ruin the whole day of a bunch of Hezbollah terrorists, well, if that's not the greatest irony of the year, it will do until a greater example comes along.
Imagine the long-term implications of this. Hezbollah nutcases will never again feel comfortable carrying a pager or cellular phone. At a minimum, the terror group will have to change its buying practices; it appears since Mossad was able to intercept one shipment and load the devices with PETN, they were placing mass orders from a single source. Smart money says that if they keep using pagers, they won't do that anymore.
There's always a way around things like this, but now Israel has Hezbollah reacting to them rather than the other way around, which is never a bad situation to be in.
Previously on RedState: NEW: Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Reportedly Injured by Exploding Pager
Heartwarming Tales of Terrorists Blowing Themselves Up
What's more, reacting is all Hezbollah is doing.
The complex operation resulted in a mass attack against Hezbollah operatives, killing nine people and leaving some 2,800 others injured when the pagers detonated on Tuesday morning across Lebanon and in parts of Syria.
Hezbollah confirmed that many of its fighters and medics were injured by the blasts, with one official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, calling it the “biggest security breach” since the group began its near-daily attacks on Israel on Oct. 8.
So there's the standard, Israel: This is the biggest security breach since October 8th. That sets the bar, and it will be interesting to see if Israel can top that in their next operation. Hezbollah has already ceased the use of cellular phones due to the concern that they may be traced and that their locations could be ascertained; that's accurate enough. But now it's very apparent that pagers aren't the answer. Maybe next, they'll resort to carrier pigeons.
This once again proves the old maxim: There is no problem that cannot be solved with the suitable application of high explosives.
We now know hezbollah buys their pagers through a corporate purchase order on Amazon.
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Okay, you gotta admit, this is funny on several levels. “The Jews” sold pagers laced with explosives to the people who want them all dead and then blew their balls off. Yes, that’s not exactly how it went down, but still. That’s just funny to me.
Hopefully the NSA or CIA, or some other government organ is monitoring hospital visits in America made by people claiming that their pager exploding caused their injury... This was an awesome operation by Mossad... Now they can monitor all those injured and identify terrorist that they previously didn’t even know about. They are geniuses.
Hezbollah could have their “victims” on a commercial jetliner flight overseas.
Our PRINT-MEDIA would cover for them.
Don’t mess with the Lone Ranger, don’t eat yellow snow and don’t mess with Israeli intel 😁
First they planted the explosives. Then they planted the terrorist slime. Neat and sweet.
Somebody on X said that the pagers had been manufactured in Iran.
“Clinton: I hate when a page blows up on you.”
But an Intern doing it ... cool!
Believe it or not, there are at least two FReepers who are upset that this happened, and are defending Hez...
I first heart Iran. Later, I heard Taiwan. Taiwan makes more sense in this situation, but will we ever know? Probably not.
This whole thing has serious "Spy Vs Spy" vibes.
FR has its “Allahu Akhbar Chorus”, a morally twisted few who can’t separate good from evil.
We all know who they are.
Let’s see how many dims suddenly come down with Covid and have to “isolate “ for a few weeks
Certainly gives the phrase a new meaning
“FR has its ‘Allahu Akhbar Chorus’, a morally twisted few who can’t separate good from evil.”
I had no clue until this morning. WHY are they here, other than to stir up trouble? Shameful to pollute the site.
Mossad is busy reducing the size of detcord so it looks more like string as hezbollah transitions to communicating using tin cans and string.
They seem to be somewhat conservative on other subjects, then lose their minds about Israel. I don’t even think it has to do with anti-semitism. They’ve just fallen out of the tree onto their heads on this one subject for some reason.
One guy here clearly just gets sucked into ham ass propaganda regularly. He’s so far off base, he exaggerates ham ass’s own exaggerated propaganda. There’s no talking to him. But he’s solid on many other issues.
Oh well!
Will the anti-civilization, murdering barbarians ever be eliminated from the planet?
It would take a heart of stone not to find humor in this!
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