The Phantom Posted Tuesday at 03:57 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:57 PM (edited) Some interesting developments on Hezbollah's exploding pagers.... I'd love to know how Israel has managed that! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo Edited Tuesday at 03:58 PM by The Phantom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted Tuesday at 03:58 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:58 PM Just now, The Phantom said: Some interesting developments on Hezbollah's exploding pagers.... I'd love to know how Israel has managed that! Supply chain infiltration almost certainly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auntie Depressant Posted Tuesday at 04:10 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:10 PM 8 dead, 2750 wounded according to The Independent. That’s quite some operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted Tuesday at 04:42 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:42 PM 41 minutes ago, HeliX said: Supply chain infiltration almost certainly. But why wait till now? Certainly keeping their powder dry, they must have been sat on it for a while. They must have got wind they were planning something big imminently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thommo2010 Posted Tuesday at 05:03 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:03 PM 1 hour ago, RecklessAbandon said: AH yes, weaponising "every day items". The Russians did that in Afghanistan, dropping bomblets that looked like dolls so kids would pick them up (apparently they have picked the practice up again since 2022 in Ukraine). I wonder how that sits with the Geneva Convention (which Israel has a very iffy relationship with at the best of times). Don't really have an opinion on the Geneva convention just think it's brilliant how co ordinated it all was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted Tuesday at 07:55 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:55 PM Reports of approx 3000 injured. Wonder if any non-US aligned country would be allowed to set off hundreds of explosives in civilian populations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted yesterday at 08:34 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:34 AM 15 hours ago, thommo2010 said: Don't really have an opinion on the Geneva convention just think it's brilliant how co ordinated it all was. It's absolutely mind blowing that they've achieved this. Mossad: questionable morals, but by god they're effective. Makes you wonder how they missed the Hamas incursion that caused this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auntie Depressant Posted yesterday at 08:37 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:37 AM 1 minute ago, The Phantom said: Makes you wonder how they missed the Hamas incursion that caused this. Exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted yesterday at 08:53 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:53 AM Allegedly the pagers were sourced 5 months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted yesterday at 08:56 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:56 AM 4 minutes ago, HeliX said: Allegedly the pagers were sourced 5 months ago. Plus the whole enterprise was reliant on no pagers being sent for repair. Use it or lose it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted yesterday at 09:20 AM Share Posted yesterday at 09:20 AM 13 hours ago, HeliX said: Reports of approx 3000 injured. Wonder if any non-US aligned country would be allowed to set off hundreds of explosives in civilian populations. They didn't though. It couldn't have been more targeted. No one carries a pager these days, unless you are a Hezbollah terrorist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted yesterday at 10:22 AM Share Posted yesterday at 10:22 AM 59 minutes ago, Shake me up Judy said: They didn't though. It couldn't have been more targeted. No one carries a pager these days, unless you are a Hezbollah terrorist. Firemen, lifeboats etc? But that's here and I'm being flippant. But the sourcing must have been interesting. I wonder what front a terrorist organisation uses to purchase a few 1000 pagers and where did they get them from? Was the supplier complicit or told to comply with Mossad lest be targeted for proliferation or terrorist financing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted yesterday at 11:24 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:24 AM (edited) 2 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said: They didn't though. It couldn't have been more targeted. No one carries a pager these days, unless you are a Hezbollah terrorist. It clearly wasn't targeted enough, as seen by the results. Thousands injured and several killed including children. It was impossible for Israel to know who was holding the pagers at the time of detonation, which makes it a contravention of the Geneva convention. Not that Israel gives a toss about the Geneva convention. As for the noone carries a pager, one of the hospitals in Lebanon got rid of all of theirs very very recently. Good fortune or a tip? Edit: should clarify it was an American hospital... Edited yesterday at 11:36 AM by HeliX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted yesterday at 11:31 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:31 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted yesterday at 11:40 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:40 AM 14 minutes ago, HeliX said: It clearly wasn't targeted enough, as seen by the results. Thousands injured and several killed including children. It was impossible for Israel to know who was holding the pagers at the time of detonation, which makes it a contravention of the Geneva convention. Not that Israel gives a toss about the Geneva convention. As for the noone carries a pager, one of the hospitals in Lebanon got rid of all of theirs very very recently. Good fortune or a tip? Hilariously a few months ago the Hezbollah leader told all his troops on TV that their mobile phones were a massive risk and ordered 1000s of pagers! Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon has also been mysteriously injured. Why would he have a Hezbollah pager? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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