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Hundreds wounded after pagers detonate in Lebanon, media and security officials say
AP ^ | September 17, 2024 | BASSEM MROUE

Posted on 09/17/2024 8:13:44 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

BEIRUT (AP) — A Hezbollah official tells The Associated Press that “several hundred” people, including members of the group, were wounded in different parts of Lebanon when their handheld pagers exploded.

He said a few Hezbollah fighters were also wounded in Syria when the pagers they were carrying exploded.

Dozens of people, including Iran’s ambassador, were wounded in Beirut’s suburbs and other parts of Lebanon after their handheld pagers exploded Tuesday, according to media reports and security officials. It wasn’t immediately clear if people were killed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1800eatthis; gaza; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; justataste; lebanon; lol; mossad; pagers; pagingmrterrorist; syria; waronterror; workaccident
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Obviously the Pagers were more ethical than current AI chat bots.
1 posted on 09/17/2024 8:13:44 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Incredible story if true. While obviously deadly in and of themselves it also is a great psy-op suggesting massive infiltration and collaboration. They won’t know who to trust.


2 posted on 09/17/2024 8:17:59 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Navy Patriot

This is pretty cool.


3 posted on 09/17/2024 8:21:01 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Did any one of them call the number back?


4 posted on 09/17/2024 8:21:05 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Navy Patriot

God bless the Mossad.


5 posted on 09/17/2024 8:21:31 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: monkeyshine

Literally incredible.


6 posted on 09/17/2024 8:21:50 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Navy Patriot

Laugh of the day.


7 posted on 09/17/2024 8:22:15 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: blackdog

*69 BOOM!


8 posted on 09/17/2024 8:22:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Very next level “Fight Club” stuff that is. Of course now just watch what happens with TSA Screening in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas travel seasons.


9 posted on 09/17/2024 8:24:01 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Navy Patriot

One of Tom Clancy’s novels takes out a Moslem terrorist leader with an exploding satellite phone.


10 posted on 09/17/2024 8:25:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Time to buy stock in these guys...

https://www.strombergschickens.com/live-birds-eggs/pigeons-and-doves/pigeons/racing-homers


11 posted on 09/17/2024 8:26:57 AM PDT by Joe Warren
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To: xoxox

True and incredible would seem to be mutually exclusive words. It does seem incredible, impossible, unfathomable. Ridiculously hard to pull off. Gotta put C4 in hundreds of pagers and get them into the right hands.

I heard they had cell phone bombs but those were few and far between. This would suggest deep infiltration and insider collaboration.


12 posted on 09/17/2024 8:27:34 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: blackdog

You have a point, if TSA can screw this up, they will.


13 posted on 09/17/2024 8:27:35 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Beeeep . . . beeeep . . . BOOM!


14 posted on 09/17/2024 8:27:47 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Especially considering the area of the body where most people carry a pager...


15 posted on 09/17/2024 8:28:04 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Navy Patriot

Hezbollah has a bone to pick with Amazon.


16 posted on 09/17/2024 8:28:37 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Navy Patriot

That end-user tech refresh program went off without a hitch and everybody got a free Easter-Egg courtesy of the supply chain. Mossad all the way.


17 posted on 09/17/2024 8:30:15 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Pagers are almost always kept in a pants pocket or on a belt at waist level. Methinks that none of these people, even if they survive, will be having any more children…which is “a shame” (in the Jerry Seinfeld sense of that phrase).


18 posted on 09/17/2024 8:30:23 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Navy Patriot

From another article: “Earlier this year, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah urged members of his organisation to revert to using the pagers for vital communications, reasoning that modern smartphones would be more susceptible to cyber attacks by Israeli forces.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said ‘tens of injured have been taken to hospital after the handheld pagers system was detonated using advanced technology’ and relayed urgent calls from hospitals in the country’s south for people to donate blood.


19 posted on 09/17/2024 8:30:53 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Hope that Mossad or Yamam used “10072023” as the caller ID.


20 posted on 09/17/2024 8:31:55 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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