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Hundreds of Hezbollah fighters wounded when their pagers all explode
https://nypost.com/ ^ | 9/17/2024 | reuters

Posted on 09/17/2024 7:30:03 AM PDT by bitt

BEIRUT, Sept 17 – Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, a security source told Reuters.

A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the “biggest security breach” the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.

A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut amid widespread panic. Residents said explosions were taking place even 30 minutes after the initial blasts.

Groups of people huddled at the entrance of buildings to check on people they knew who may have been wounded, the Reuters journalist said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1800eatthis; explode; gaza; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; pagers; pagingmrterrorist; syria; waronterror
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1 posted on 09/17/2024 7:30:03 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/17/2024 7:30:20 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Ingenuous


3 posted on 09/17/2024 7:31:33 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: bitt

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html


4 posted on 09/17/2024 7:31:57 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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OMG, absolutely brilliant.

Pardon me while I take a break to open up my iPhone to look for a chunk of C4 explosive.


5 posted on 09/17/2024 7:32:56 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: bitt

Love it.
They will never put a pager in their front pocket again. Ouch!


6 posted on 09/17/2024 7:33:44 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: bitt

That’s much better than just one phone exploding when answered....


7 posted on 09/17/2024 7:33:55 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: bitt

maybe 1,000!!!!

an audio message and then they explode

pagers were exploded all at once!

Iranian embassador to Lebanon was near or carrying one, lol


8 posted on 09/17/2024 7:35:33 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

oh those Israelis.


9 posted on 09/17/2024 7:36:11 AM PDT by avital2
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To: wildcard_redneck
look for a chunk of C4 explosive

If there is Silly Putty, is there Serious Putty. Yes, it's called C4.

10 posted on 09/17/2024 7:37:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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11 posted on 09/17/2024 7:38:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: bitt

https://rumble.com/v5fa0fl-video-showing-hezbollah-pagers-blowing-up.html

video

also see

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4265358/posts


12 posted on 09/17/2024 7:38:44 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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13 posted on 09/17/2024 7:39:01 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: bitt

Hamas should not have made their IT system password = “PASSWORD”


14 posted on 09/17/2024 7:39:14 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

They have since changed it to 123456!


15 posted on 09/17/2024 7:40:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Thank You Rush
I wonder how the Israelis got ahold of the pagers to put explosives in them?

If I was doing the planning I would

  1. Find out where Hezboulah buys their pagers from
  2. Put an asset at the company in the shipping department
  3. Either modify the pagers right in the manufacturing plant or intercept the shipment
  4. Modify the software or the pager to arm the explosive when the right phrase was texted to the pager, rigged to blow up when the user viewed the text

16 posted on 09/17/2024 7:42:38 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Cronos
Ingenuous

Also ingenious.

17 posted on 09/17/2024 7:43:11 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: bitt

Ingenious. I would like to know which Israeli intelligence agency conceived this ruse.


18 posted on 09/17/2024 7:44:45 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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That’s funny right there.

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19 posted on 09/17/2024 7:46:02 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.p)
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To: bitt

I used to manage the pagers for a hospital. Wiring a pager to blow up would be pretty easy…and with a single message code you could set them all off at one time.

This is genius. It’s also hilarious to think of the lower level guys wondering why THEIR pager didn’t blow up.


20 posted on 09/17/2024 7:46:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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