Posted on 09/17/2024 8:49:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
According to the New York Times, Israel tampered with the devices that Hezbollah ordered.
VIDEO OF SOME OF THE INCIDENTS AT LINK..................
They reportedly placed two ounces of explosive material next to the battery in each pager.
"A switch was also embedded that could be triggered remotely to detonate the explosives," the Times reported.
Hezbollah fighters received a message at 3:30 p.m. Lebanon time that looked like it was coming from Hezbollah’s leadership.
When the message came through, there was a brief pause, presumably so the fighters would raise the pagers toward their face, before they detonated.
Over 2,800 people were injured and 9 people were k*lled.
Here’s a slight variation to this....Hezbollah created the device for the reason it would self destruct if it got into Israeli hands (or perhaps simply to have a ‘hand grenade at the ready at all times). Mossad got wind of what they were up to and set out to get one of them....then they reverse engineered it until they figured out the hack that they could set them all off at once.
“I liked the explanation that Hezbollah planted remote activated self destruct devices in the pager in case Israel seized any of them.”
I like it too, like the Hamas guy that was killed in Iran a couple months ago, Mossad could be taking credit for it and muddying the waters. It’s a good possibility, but if you were a Hezbollah terrorist, would you carry a device close to your junk that could explode? Maybe they weren’t told about the self-destruct feature.
Hezbollah has been warned repeatedly since May of this year to back off attacking northern Israel. Ignoring warnings from Europe and the US, Hezbollah has allowed Iranian operatives to set up shop in the Masyaf area. Seven days ago, Hezbollah launched dozens of drone and missle attacks against northern Israel.
Israel responded.
Not if they played "Mission Impossible" music while they were doing it. :)
“Gotta get back to you, Abdul. My pager’s blowing up.”
They’re going to change the name of Hezbollah to Hezballess.
Some pagers did some things…
I say we buy pagers for the Mad Mullahs of Tehran.
Or both?
I hear there’s going to be a Hezbollah hockey team now. They’re really good at the face off.
“This pager will self-destruct in 5 seconds.”
You blind me with your sick humor ;-)
Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah pagers, say sources
The plot appears to have been many months in the making, several sources told Reuters.
The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers from Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country earlier this year.
Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe that had the right to use the firm’s brand, the name of which he could not immediately confirm.
Might want to think what the Chinese could do to the US by selling PETN laced stuff on Amazon and Temu.
“Could use bomb sniffing dogs or electronic chemical sniffers...either way..will slows lots of things up.“
In a terrorist or military environment, a bomb sniffing dog might be useless. Everything would small like one!
thousands of Hezbollah fighters...
... were pinged.
New reality program: Face Time with Fanatics.
Bkmmk
Story sounds like some CIA-invented story. I saw a picture of a affected beeper....appears mostly melted.
Uses a lithium battery? I think they sent a signal to overload the battery and trigger a battery being blown-up.
It was several years ago now, but Israel managed to get a few cell phones packed with explosives into the hands of (and beside the heads of) some terrorists org leaders.............
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