Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation.

The pagers, which Hezbollah had ordered from Gold Apollo in Taiwan, had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon, according to some of the officials. Most were the company’s AP924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment.

The explosive material, as little as one to two ounces, was implanted next to the battery in each pager, two of the officials said. A switch was also embedded that could be triggered remotely to detonate the explosives.

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  • @[email protected]
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    -455 months ago

    This was such a cool way to kill bad guys. I hope to read more about how they did this like their Stuxnet virus blew up Iranian centrifuges

    • NoIWontPickAName
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      315 months ago

      Until you account for all the innocent people it hurt.

      Involving civilians is bad no matter whose side is doing it.

      • @Madison420
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        You misunderstand, they’re being sarcastic.

        Ed: to be specific they reference the most famous result of unexpected consequences.

        The US government created a virus managed stucnet that infested and threw off industrial controllers of a specific brand they knew were used with Iranian centrifuges that enrich nuclear material. Their plan worked and the centrifuges were destroyed.

        Later on they found out stuxnet accidently infected a bunch of other controllers, ones that were in hospitals, power plants ect. It ended up being one of the most widespread viruses ever.

        Essentially they’re saying planting bombs in pagers could never have unexpected consequences. /S

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          No, they were being serious.

          The marvel-brained lib has had a comment removed for justifying Israeli attacks on hospitals and schools.

          • @SulaymanF
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            25 months ago

            Poe’s Law of the internet. It’s impossible to tell online if someone is sarcastic or insane.

          • @Madison420
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            -85 months ago

            Bro you cannot possibly lack that much critical thinking and still be alive.

              • @Madison420
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                -135 months ago

                Bro, what other shit they did or didn’t do ain’t got shit to do with this comment here. You’re wrong, accept it and move on.

                • @[email protected]
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                  105 months ago

                  The other shit they did informs us of they way they think.

                  I understand why you’d assume they’re being sarcastic, but someone who literally believes Israel is killing bad guys isn’t going to express sarcasm that way. Those are not the posts of someone concerned with blowback.

                  • @Madison420
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                    -45 months ago

                    No , it can infer character.

                    It’s not going to change objective fact.

                    Read that statement and go point by point as to why you believe it could only be serious. You’ll be left having to say it’s probably sarcastic because of its content not it’s creators character.

                    MLK talked about this shit dude.

    • tuckerm
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      195 months ago

      The way that they pulled off this attack is interesting from a cybersecurity standpoint, but we can’t ignore the fact that Israel had no way of knowing who was near the devices when they exploded. They very nature of this attack made it impossible for Israel to know how closely they were targeting the bad guys or how many civilians were nearby.

        • @Psychodelic
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          25 months ago

          And who are the good guys?

          Are you one of the good guys? Oh shit am I?

          • @jj4211
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            15 months ago

            That’s the neat part, there are no good guys.

        • @[email protected]
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          -15 months ago

          Hezbollah is a government. Which has a large number of civilian members, including doctors that treat people.

          Are the garbage collectors bad guys?