Posted on 09/18/2024 10:02:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
TAIPEI — Taiwanese pager manufacturer Gold Apollo on Wednesday said that it did not make the devices used by the militant group Hezbollah that exploded in Lebanon the previous day, killing at least 12 people and injuring as many as 2,800 others.
Experts said that Israel probably intercepted electronic pagers, used by Hezbollah because they were considered safer than cellphones, before they were delivered to Lebanon and rigged them with explosives.
Hezbollah blamed Israel and threatened to retaliate. The Israel Defense Forces, which does not typically announce operations abroad, declined to comment on whether it was responsible.
Two photos published to social media after the attack show the burned and damaged back panels of pagers with “GOLD” written in text above a model number, “AR-9.” The design of the text matches that emblazoned on the back of the “AR-924” pager model produced by Gold Apollo Co.
But the company said Wednesday that it did not manufacture the AR-924 pagers, and that they were “entirely handled” by a company called BAC Consulting KFT. The Hungarian company was authorized to use Gold Apollo’s brand trademark in some regions, it said. BAC did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s requests for comment Wednesday.
Hsu Ching-kuang, Gold Apollo’s founder, told reporters at the company’s headquarters in New Taipei City on Wednesday that BAC has been selling the pagers using Gold Apollo’s brand for less than two years.
Hsu said he had no idea how a pager could be turned into an explosive. “I’m just doing my business, why am I getting involved in a terrorist attack?” Hsu said.
The pager only has a receiving function, and the battery inside is approximately the size of a AA battery with no possibility of causing an explosion that could lead to casualties, according to the company.
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Simply brilliant!
LOL! I was chuckling at their management having to deal with this.
Apollo didn’t “make’ the devices.
But, their technology was ‘allowed’ to be used in making th devices. Israel knows how to manage the full cycle of weapons manufacturing to meet their needs.
Makes sense. Pagers are designed to be low energy usage devices. Lithium batteries (if that’s even the battery used) do have high energy density and can burn in thermal runaway, if exposed to high heat, but that’s different from an explosion.
Videos of the exploding pagers show a charge that would almost certainly have to come from an outside chemical source (such as PETN)
Besides rigging the devices, the other great bit of tech and software engineering on Mossad’s part was hacking Lebanon’s telecom services, to create and send signals causing enough heat in the device to trigger the explosives, nearly all at the same time.
I know nothing ……
There’s gonna be hell taipei...
Until the Deep State borrows the idea to take out conservative dissidents.
How come no one worried about who manufactured the paragliders used by the Hamass Chimpanzee Air Force on 7 October Massacre? Surely they could have found some Chimpanzee Paraglider “experts” around to fill them in.
And a message. “ Leave the Jews in Peace”.
The customer service line must be burning up! (So to speak)
Israel is so smart, it’s enemies’ heads are exploding
Israel is so smart, it’s enemies’ heads are exploding
May the jackels lap the blood of this merchant!
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Problem with Chinese pagers is after an hour you need to get exploded again.
DeepState CIA WaPoop very interested in getting to the bottom of this;
not at all about ABC “debate” rigging/corruption.
-fJRoberts-
“You’re killin’ me, Smalls !”
As sneaky as the Stuxnet virus that gave a false reading on the uranium enrichment centrifuges and set the Iranian nuclear program many months.
Now Hamas is afraid to use two-way communications.
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