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.
Just stop. Just stop pretending and trying to diminish the slur.
The poster was comparing a prayer rug in a mosque with a floor rug being hung up and beaten to clean it. Their verbatim question was, "Don’t you have a mosque to get to, or a rug to beat?"
My people are on Free Republic. I take it by your comment that yours aren't. Are yours on Democrat Underground, maybe?
There is nothing whatsoever to do with Islam worth any respect at all.
Don’t try your “everyone is wonderful” crap on me. You are a very sick individual who lives to try and guilt people into acting as you desire. Because Hamas and similar groups devalue life, their own lives mean nothing to them. But that does not give them the right to pass their attitude on to innocent people with a different viewpoint. It has been shown that there are no innocents in Gaza; many non-combatants retained Israeli prisoners for Hamas, killed Israeli prisoners for Hamas, and other heinous acts. So they are guilty by association, yes. And must pay the ultimate penalty for the suffering they inflicted on the immediately killed and those taken as hostages. And the families of same. Israel does not have the luxury of philosophizing as you apparently do. With them, it’s their very survival. There is no room for error or niceties. Putting the recipients of those pagers out of commission means less deaths inflicted by those recipients. And that will have to do, when they have proven harmful, for no valid reason, to Israelis.
I took all of 18 minutes and 37 seconds to go from trying to cover up bigotry of another poster (Post 240) to you stating your own bigotry clearly (Post 243).
Your statement does not belong on any forum, but especially not on Free Republic.
Nowhere did I state "everyone is wonderful". I just pointed out that targeting people remotely without confirming the target nor ensure innocents would be harmed, for the sake of expediency, is unacceptable. Don't take it as my opinion. Simply ask yourself if anyone in the U.S. government would face charges if they intentionally did the same. If you feel pressure about guilt, look in the mirror, not at me.
You are a very sick individual...
Sick? According to Dr. EinNYC? I would like to see the justification for that diagnosis. Does the board know you're diagnosing through online forums? Do I owe you for the session?
How do you know I would use the singular article "a" and that I'm not multiple individuals? There might be a whole plethora of wonderfulists in here.
...who lives to try...
Go back and read that again, and again, and then again. Read it until it sinks in that you're actually stating, in public no less, that you know what I live for. You actually know. Amazing. That makes one of us that knows. Is it your mind reading ability? Psychic ability? Did a dog in your NYC neighborhood tell it to you, Mr. Falco? It could be our close personal relationship but I don't think we've met.
...and guilt people into acting as you desire. Guilt? Not from me. Nothing I wrote was any attempt to guilt others. Not one thing. If the guilt's not from me... ... well, there it is. It must mean it's internal - to you. You can call me anything you want, even a trigger for you, but don't ascribe anything to me remotely like trying to guilt others.
Thanks. I don’t recall ever seeing cultured butter in the store. I looked on Amazon. Yikes! I thought $10 a lb. was stupid-expensive. And that was some years ago.
There is absolutely no way to even pretend to avoid civilian casualties when discussing nuclear weapons. Any attempt to do so is subterfuge of the worst kind.
And as far as civilian casualties go in this instance there have so far been few if any. Hezbolla makes a practice of hiding among civilians so any damage done is on them, not Israel. A grown up would understand that.
From what I’ve read about this event Israel has managed to render over 3,000 terrorists combat ineffective including several senior leaders. If any civilians were injured or killed that, while regrettable, is going to happen in war. They weren’t deliberately targeted.
Also Israel has managed to collect a treasure trove of intelligence with this move. These savages are now permanently scarred making later identification possible. Hezbolla will now have to completely revamp their command and control systems.
Now would be the time for the IDF to move in and flush the rest of the rats out of the nest and kill them.
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...and yet, due to the efforts after August 1945, we haven't had any casualties, civilian or otherwise. (not counting radiation effects from testing)
If the world can't find forgiveness, then it shouldn't exist.
Imnsho.
“and yet, due to the efforts after August 1945…”
What efforts? The MAD doctrine is what’s prevented nuclear war. If that ever goes away the casualties will number in the hundreds of millions.
And that is completely irrelevant to the Israeli situation. They found a way to take out literally thousands of terrorist savages who have sworn to kill every Jew in Israel. And they did it in spectacular fashion with civilian casualties numbering in single digits.
They’re to be congratulated, not second guessed by a bunch of bed wetting panty waisted fools.
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Tell us you’re a player-hater without telling us you’re a player-hater.
Why don’t you.
It was actually PETN, not Semtex...
“Following that logic, Westerners should start sodomizing sheep too.”
Looking at the social decay going on in western society I find there is a certain bitter irony to your statement!
You are either playing the devil’s advocate...arguing for the sake of arguing...or you are the last of the true boy scouts.
For charity’s sake I’ll call you a boy scout!
Stay true! Always pray when God decides to get into the conflicts directly...he’ll lay axes to all the roots directly in the battles coming!
“Following that logic, Westerners should start sodomizing sheep too.”
Looking at the social decay going on in western society I find there is a certain bitter irony to your statement!
You are either playing the devil’s advocate...arguing for the sake of arguing...or you are the last of the true boy scouts.
For charity’s sake I’ll call you a boy scout!
Stay true! Always pray when God decides to get into the conflicts directly...he’ll lay axes to all the roots directly in the battles coming!
“Mocking a prayer rug is disrespectful.”
So you ARE a Muslim.
“Any other religion you care to mock while you’re at it?”
Several.
Begone.
“Shouldn’t we as Christians be praying and caring for what happens to them?”
Every single day we pray for them. We had special prayers for them at Bible Study last night. And we put our money where our mouth is and financially support ALL people in that part of the world via our Missions giving. How many thousands of dollars do you donate for this cause?
If you feel that it is better for America to roll over and be absorbed by heathens, that’s cool. Most of us don’t.
And if you believe it would’ve been better for us to have been vanquished by Japan than to remain free, that’s cool, too. Most of us don’t.
“Perhaps this is the beginning of WW3.”
If you’re thinking WW3, you need to think bigger. Seeing what’s happening with Israel now, and being aware of eschatology, the shock and awe of what easily could occur next will make WWIII look like a college safe place with Play Doh and Legos.
I’ll take a piss on a prayer rug if I want.
Allah is not God. Mohammed was no prophet. He was a pedophile, a rapist, a murderer, a thief, and liar who invented a fake religion to con morons like you.
Piss be upon him. But he’d probably like the liquid. Remind him of his dad’s love. And be cooling on him in Hell where he burns for eternity.
Quick correct.
And NM is in America. Kind of. Gone way downhill since we’ve been invaded by California
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