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Hezbollah Still Trying to Figure Out How the Pager Attack That Killed 11, with nearly 3,000 wounded, Was Carried Out
PJ Media ^ | 09/18/2024

Posted on 09/18/2024 9:22:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

They literally never knew what hit them. Hezbollah is still trying to figure out how Israel allegedly intercepted a shipment of new pagers from Taiwan and planted one or two ounces of explosives in them. Then, with nobody the wiser, shipped 5,000 pagers merrily on its way to end up in the pockets of Hezbollah operatives and fighters.

The reported details of this operation reveal a startlingly thorough job of planning and execution right down to the fake message from Hezbollah leadership that detonated the devices. Israel has not taken responsibility for the attack, though it's widely believed they were behind it.

The death toll has risen to 11, with nearly 3,000 wounded, many of them critically.

The 5,000 pagers were ordered from the Taiwanese electronics company Gold Apollo. "Most were the company’s AR924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment," reports the New York Times.

The explosives were embedded next to the battery and included a switch that would detonate the device remotely. At 3:30 p.m. local time, the pagers beeped three times, as they were programmed to do, with a message that appeared to be from Hezbollah headquarters.

A few seconds later, the pagers detonated.

Reuters:

Hezbollah did not reply to questions from Reuters on the make of the pagers. Gold Apollo's founder said the company did not make the pagers used in the explosions in Lebanon. They were manufactured by a company in Europe that had the right to use the Taiwanese firm's brand.

Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their locations, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Hezbollah; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1800eatthis; attack; beirut; bloweduprealgood; boomboom; hezbollah; israel; lebanon; pager
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Three security sources told Reuters that the pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months.
1 posted on 09/18/2024 9:22:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 09/18/2024 9:23:28 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Well hell.....I think I got a pretty good idea. Lol!


3 posted on 09/18/2024 9:24:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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3,000 wounded. Wow. Those were some powerful explosions.


4 posted on 09/18/2024 9:25:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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They may want to consider using Dixie cups connected by kite string.


5 posted on 09/18/2024 9:26:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Surreptitiously


6 posted on 09/18/2024 9:26:42 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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(Hezbollah Still Trying to Figure Out How the Pager Attack That Killed 11, with nearly 3,000 wounded, Was Carried Out)

Amazon Prime Delivery? 😜


7 posted on 09/18/2024 9:28:01 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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8 posted on 09/18/2024 9:28:12 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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They may want to consider using Dixie cups connected by kite string detcord.

Fixed.

9 posted on 09/18/2024 9:28:53 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Indubitably


10 posted on 09/18/2024 9:29:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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LMAO


11 posted on 09/18/2024 9:29:16 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Video in the hospital showed some devastating wounds. Good op. Some tolks may be soiling themselves any time a phone rings, for a while.


12 posted on 09/18/2024 9:29:16 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Im almost certain the way it was carried out was with a little hand-held device with a round red button in the center, and some Mossad agent cackling as he pressed that red button.


13 posted on 09/18/2024 9:29:37 AM PDT by suasponte137
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“You can run, but you cannot hide.”


14 posted on 09/18/2024 9:29:50 AM PDT by The Westerner (Independent for Trump: 2016, 2020, 2024)
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Hezbollah did not reply to questions

Lol, maybe because their pagers are not working?

15 posted on 09/18/2024 9:31:41 AM PDT by tlozo (Russia is ruled by a psychologically deranged dictator and worst of all, it obediently follows)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a different way of bombing into the stone age.


16 posted on 09/18/2024 9:31:48 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: SeekAndFind

More today this time radios

Timelapse Footage from Beirut shows the moments that Two-Way radios began to Explode
https://rumble.com/v5ffcel-timelapse-footage-from-beirut-shows-the-moments-that-two-way-radios-began-t.html


17 posted on 09/18/2024 9:32:48 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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“Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their locations...”

Well, they were successful at evading Israeli tracking......Israeli wrath, not so much.

Gives new meaning to the old advertisement slogan “Reach out and touch someone” 😏


18 posted on 09/18/2024 9:33:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Mashallah...


19 posted on 09/18/2024 9:35:29 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jews

Nothing if not very clever

I bet Hezbollah is now worried if those 50-60,000 rockets they hold might explode on ignition. Loll


20 posted on 09/18/2024 9:35:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder)
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