"One ringy-dingy. . " -- Lily Tomlin
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.
Can we hire Mossad to replace our CIA?
I don’t know if Mossad does contract work...............
Ex-cell-ent!...............
All this talk of pagers takes me back to the eighties. I had no idea pagers we’re still being manufactured and used.
I use dto work at a company where I had to have one of those things with me 24/7 even on weekends. I hated it and still do...............
a new warfare is sparked
this is a very good time to be a low maintenance person rather than a collector of gadgets
"One ringy-dingy. . " -- Lily Tomlin
Sure, just interrupt the supply line with a dummy company and insert the explosive.
Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese company that owns the trademark used on the Hezbollah pagers, publicly denies having made or having anything else to do with the exploding pagers.
Obviously desperate to deflect blame, Apollo Gold also mentioned there’s a company in Hungary that they have licensed to build some of their products.
It also bears mention that this has little to do with killing a few splodybots, this is a strategy to disrupt Hezbollah command & control. Because how do you control your army when anything you touch that runs on batteries might kill you for using it.
But this condition won’t last forever, and Israel isn’t likely to squander the limited opportunity they just created for themselves, which means they probably are on the verge of launching a more direct (and probably large-scale) attack.
Without the ability to effectively coordinate a defense, it becomes a turkey shoot for Israel.
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