Posted on 09/17/2024 12:48:07 PM PDT by Signalman
We’ve recently read some heartwarming stories concerning terrorists in Lebanon being separated from their mortal coils as they were blown up by their own pagers. Israel had no comment other than (I'm guessing) Mossad agents giving each other high-fives for a job well done.
RedState's Susie Moore wrote:
I'm not sure who had exploding pagers on their Bingo cards for 2024, but why not? As Bonchie reported earlier:
In one of the most unbelievable developments of 2024, Israel somehow hacked into the pagers and cell phones of Hezbollah fighters and caused them to explode. News of hundreds of injuries, including dismemberments broke on Tuesday morning. Shortly after, videos of devices blowing up began to circulate.
Israel can’t admit to blowing up terrorists using pagers, but everyone knows it wasn’t lithium batteries that just all-of-sudden blew up at the same time. It was carried out by a nation-state intent on ending bad guys. If they weren't ended, they at least lost the use of some appendages. Technology has been used to great effect, eliminating terrorists or terror infrastructure. In 2021, Operation Olympic Games destroyed a cluster of Iranian centrifuges used, no doubt, to forward Iran’s nuclear bomb program. It was a cyber bug planted by Israel and the U.S. Other terror plots were foiled, not by sophisticated logic bombs or technology but by just dumb luck – and I mean dumb. As in, terrorists can be really dumb.
Eight years ago, Sevdet Ramadan Besim decided he was going stuff the pouches of kangaroos with explosives, then paint them in Islamic State colors. Apparently he thought the 'roos would just sit there compliantly. He intended to set them loose on the streets of Melbourne. No, seriously, Besim thought that he could corral kangaroos and maybe convince them to jihad themselves for the “cause.” He got caught before any kangaroo could beat him senseless and disembowel him. But my favorite feel-good dumb terrorist story happened 12 years ago in Bangkok, Thailand.
Three Iranian nationals were plotting an attack on Israeli diplomats using “sticky bombs.” The botched plot started botching when the rented apartment of three inept terrorists went...“boom!”
In March 2012, the Bangkok neighborhood shook when the apartment exploded, and three bloodied men staggered out of the building. The terrorists (who I will code-name Manny Moe and Curly) went in different directions. Saied Morad (code-name Curly because his hair was likely curled from the blast) was a 28-year-old Iranian [former] soldier. Curly was bleeding from his ears to his feet. He was carrying what witnesses described as a backpack and two black boxes. The black boxes were devices with green wires sticking out of them. Bloody Curly tried to hail a cab. The cab driver, seeing a bloody man who was perhaps still smoking from the apartment blast, refused to stop for Curly’s hail. In response, Curly tossed a bomb at the cabbie. Kaboom!
Curly had one bomb left. As the police closed in, he tried to toss his last bomb at the cops. Fortunately, his sticky bomb got stuck on something, and it boomeranged back at Curly and blew up, with the blast removing Curly’s legs from the rest of his body. It also removed his right eye. The police arrested what was left of Curly. Unfortunately for Curly, he didn’t get his 72 virgins on that fateful day. He survived. Curly appeared in court missing his legs and right eyeball, but he was still able to raise a defiant fist in the air. His defense was classic: “I had no idea where the bombs came from." He was shocked, shocked to find bombs in the cupboard. Curly claimed he had opened the kitchen cabinet and instead of falafels, he found...bombs. RUN! he told Manny and Moe. Curly took the brunt of the bomb blast. Unlike Curly's legs, his defense didn't fly. He was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison. Manny and Moe were also arrested and sent to prison.
The story of Manny Moe and Curly doesn’t have a completely feel-good happy ending. All three were repatriated - sent back to Iran in exchange for an Australian woman who Iran had managed to nab and arrest on trumped-up charges.
One hopes that Israel continues to “allegedly” blow up terrorists using the terrorists’ own pagers. One hopes that Iran continues to send dumb terrorists out into the wild, only to manage to blow themselves up or manage, as was the case for Curly, to separate himself from his legs and eyeball.
Who cares. Terrorists go boom. Go cry for your Allah elsewhere...
You must be pretty certain that everyone you pass each day isn't a terrorist. I hope you're not shopping, commuting, dining, or getting gas near one of these 400 ISIS linked individuals who are here in the United States:
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/dhs-identifies-400-migrants-brought-us-isis-linked-human-smuggling-rcna158777
And nowhere near any of these either:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-warns-dangerous-individuals-coming-southern-border/story?id=108024830
I hope no one in your family goes to school with someone like the Tsaernev brothers because according to you, being in the vicinity of someone like them voids any right you have to not be targeted by someone going after terrorists.
<< My point is that 4,000+ casulties is a big number. Let that fact sink in. >>
Too bad the number of deaths is less than a dozen. But it’s heartening to hear that so many of the 4000+ were taken out of the jihadi gene pool via repro package removal.
It is unacceptable to have rules of engagement for a civilization that follows no rules. The rule in such a civilization is to kill all adults and all males (old and young) and leave all girls under age 8. When they grow up, provide husbands for them from your culture.
From the extent of injuries I’ve seen, it’s exceptionally UNlikely this was causes by the battery. Unless it had been modified to incorporate 1-2 ounces of explosives, which is entirely feasible.
But FReepers will blather on about lithium nonetheless...
These wee issue to terrorist to bypass being picked up by phone technology. Just how many random people you see using pagers in the middle east? Answer is Zero.
You sure do change the topic much to defend your hatred of Jews. Go away Islamic terrorist supporter. Nothing for you here.
Projecting much Ahmed!
Face it, you just hate Israel. You haven’t said one word in this thread against the thousands of unguided rockets that Hezbollah has been raining down on Israel civilians for months and forcing the evacuation of Norther Israel.
I am only insulting you because I have so little respect for your sad regurgitation of Hezbollah propaganda.
You are beneath contempt.
I care. I care for your right not to have a government agency justify means to go after terrorists that compromises your right to life and be free of injury. I care about your right to not become a casualty because someone else came up with a plan that removed target verification for the sake of expediency.
I care that while terrorists go boom, so do innocent civilians.
As for crying to Allah, I also care that no one targets you because you happen to be standing next to someone who follows a creed that the targeter doesn't agree with.
Welcome to Free Republic.
Wait...government cheese wasn’t real?
I don’t fing care.
Good times. 😉
“These were pagers issued to Hezbollah by Iran. “
Then the level of Mossad infiltration of the Iranian powers that be is pretty damned impressive. Credit where credit is due. This is one for the Mossad’s “greatest hits” reel. Not quite up there with the Eichmann kidnapping, but maybe in the Top 10.
Face what? That you believe you know what I think? That you believe you know who I hate and don't hate? That I hate anyone at all? That blind arrogance is reserved for humans who think they're gods.
You can hold me in contempt for your fictitious charges all you want. You may consider me beneath contempt but don't consider me beneath reason - not for my sake but for your own. Celebrating tactics that violate rights in the name of expediency is a damning slope.
Not sure about now.
and that attitude helps Globalists keep Foreverwars going.
You comment like a crying girl.
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