[News] Exploding pagers across Lebanon

Bozza

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• Tuesday at 6:20 PM

• #1

This is a remarkable story, isn't it?

The planning and sophistication needed to infiltrate a supply chain and implant thousands of pagers, that remain completely operational, with high-grade explosives, such that they can be made to all go BANG! at some point in the future.

That's quite something.

Pager attack in Lebanon: Two children among 12 killed by exploding pagers, as reports say Israel was behind attack

Thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon yesterday - reports say Israel's spy agency, Mossad, was targeting Hezbollah fighters.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

Mr Bridger

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Anyone know if Dr Beat is ok?

 

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• Tuesday at 6:22 PM

• #3

Mr Bridger said:

Anyone know if Dr Beat is ok?

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Struggling I hear - can’t control his feet.

 

Birdie Boy

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• Tuesday at 6:22 PM

• #4

I've just read that and thought the same. Very clever.

 

BBassic

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It's truly astonishing. And vicious.

 

fly high

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• Tuesday at 6:27 PM

• #6

Real shame about the 10 year old girl but the others, brilliant.

 

Sorrel

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• Tuesday at 6:29 PM

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Impressive work. Must have taken a lot of planning and building of trust (didn't the terrorists investigate a single one?).

 

trueblue

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• Tuesday at 6:37 PM

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Very clever. Seems rather indiscriminate as the owner could be anywhere when it’s activated.

 

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• Tuesday at 6:44 PM

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fly high said:

Real shame about the 10 year old girl but the others, brilliant.

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3000 people injured is ''brilliant''. Jesus.

 

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• Tuesday at 6:50 PM

• #10

Bozza said:

This is a remarkable story, isn't it?

The planning and sophistication needed to infiltrate a supply chain and implant thousands of pagers, that remain completely operational, with high-grade explosives, such that they can be made to all go BANG! at some point in the future.

That's quite something.

Pager attack in Lebanon: Two children among 12 killed by exploding pagers, as reports say Israel was behind attack

Thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon yesterday - reports say Israel's spy agency, Mossad, was targeting Hezbollah fighters.

www.bbc.co.uk

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I couldn’t understand it at first.

Extraordinary.

 

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• Tuesday at 6:55 PM

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Yeah. So clever. Although the "owners" 'might' all be 100% guaranteed Hezbollah, bet the injury count isnt only terrorists. Grim.

 

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• Tuesday at 7:00 PM

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Mossad gonna Mossad.

 

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• Tuesday at 7:07 PM

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2,750 injured

 

Jackthelad

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• Tuesday at 7:12 PM

• #14

Collective punishment always cowardly. But on a less serious not is this 1991 who uses pagers still?!

 

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• Tuesday at 7:16 PM

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Apparently Hezbollah use them frequently as a low tech means of communication that is hard to intercept

 

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• Tuesday at 7:17 PM

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Interesting Mossad is able to carry out such an inherently cunning and brilliant plan which would have involved a lot of intricate planning, detail and precision execution.

Especially given that the only way the Israeli government can apparently rescue a few dozen hostages in Gaza is by bombing it out of existence and killing everyone who lives there.

 

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• Tuesday at 7:17 PM

• #17

Jackthelad said:

Collective punishment always cowardly. But on a less serious not is this 1991 who uses pagers still?!

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Hezbollah do as their phones had been hacked.

 

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• Tuesday at 7:19 PM

• #18

Jackthelad said:

Collective punishment always cowardly. But on a less serious not is this 1991 who uses pagers still?!

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Hezbollah use pagers instead of mobiles because mobiles are not secure and can be hacked (if you have a national security agency who know how to do it).

 

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Welcome to (stringer b) ell

 

Washie

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A child has died