The Exploding Pagers
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The exploding pagers that wounded thousands of Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon Tuesday were reportedly detonated by a message impersonating the leaders of the recognized terrorist group.
Hezbollah militants all across Lebanon and parts of Syria received a message that appeared to be sent by the group’s leadership to their new pagers at 3:30 p.m. But in reality, the fake message was the trigger that set off explosives hidden in the devices, officials told the New York Times.
The message triggered the batteries inside the pagers to overheat and ignite the explosives, sources told Sky News Arabia.
Mossad allegedly intercepted a shipment of the Taiwanese-made beepers before it reached Lebanon and planted 1 to 2 ounces of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a highly explosive material, next to the battery, along with a remote trigger switch, the Times and Sky News Arabia reported.
The devices were brand new, but it’s unclear when they arrived in Lebanon or how long they had been in use.
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Very early reports. But right now it seems more unexplained explosions in Beirut.
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I’m hearing walkie talkies. But it’s still very unconfirmed.
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@bachophile said in The Exploding Pagers:
I’m hearing walkie talkies. But it’s still very unconfirmed.
Interesting, I wonder if it was more interactive, requiring the user to press the send button before exploding? If so, this will be far more lethal. If not, it’s quite possible many devices were not in effective range.
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Of course, the walk is talkies could carry a heavier charge than a pager.
“Muhammed, why are these walkie talkies so heavy?”
“Is good! They are built solidly! They will hold up during the great intifada!”
I would hate to be the Hezbollah procurement guy, right now.
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This should lead to some pretty good Achmed the Dead Terrorist material
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So they say now, the luxembourgers understood that hezbollah would switch immediately to an alternate channel of communication and so the next echelon was targeted.
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@LuFins-Dad and maybe the hezbollah procurement guy is currently drinking a martini on Tel Aviv beach promenade?
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@bachophile said in The Exploding Pagers:
So they say now, the luxembourgers understood that hezbollah would switch immediately to an alternate channel of communication and so the next echelon was targeted.
Wait till you see what they did to the semaphore flags..:
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@George-K said in The Exploding Pagers:
@89th said in The Exploding Pagers:
Allegedly the pager message sent right before it exploded displayed "555"
Somewhere I read that the message was 5318008 (but you had to turn it upside down).
Both splendid posts.
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@bachophile @89th Just like Israel, I can neither confirm nor deny anything. LOL
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https://babylonbee.com/news/rashida-tlaib-uninjured-after-her-pager-mysteriously-explodes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Capitol Police responded to an urgent call amid reports of a loud disturbance in the congressional offices today. Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was later reportedly uninjured after her pager mysteriously exploded.
The incident occurred earlier Tuesday in Tlaib's Capitol Hill office, where her pager had been sitting on a desk before spontaneously detonating, causing a significant scare but leaving no reported injuries.
"It just blew up right out of nowhere!" one of Tlaib's staffers said following the explosion. "We were just going about our business, checking over the congresswoman's itinerary of Death-To-Israel protests, when there was a huge blast in the next room. We went in there, papers were flying everywhere, and there was smoke… thank goodness she had put the pager on the desk. Such a crazy, unexplained incident, right?"
Tlaib's staff was questioned on the origin of the pager but provided little clarification. "She said it was a gift from some dear friends," one staffer explained. "Honestly, we thought it was a little weird for a U.S. congresswoman to be carrying a pager in 2024, but didn't really think too much of it. Now it blew up in our office. I guess we're seeing why people stopped carrying pagers now, right? I mean, those things are obviously dangerous!"
At publishing time, police were called to Dearborn, Michigan after reports of several thousand pager explosions in the area.
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@LuFins-Dad said in The Exploding Pagers:
https://babylonbee.com/news/rashida-tlaib-uninjured-after-her-pager-mysteriously-explodes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Capitol Police responded to an urgent call amid reports of a loud disturbance in the congressional offices today. Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was later reportedly uninjured after her pager mysteriously exploded.
The incident occurred earlier Tuesday in Tlaib's Capitol Hill office, where her pager had been sitting on a desk before spontaneously detonating, causing a significant scare but leaving no reported injuries.
"It just blew up right out of nowhere!" one of Tlaib's staffers said following the explosion. "We were just going about our business, checking over the congresswoman's itinerary of Death-To-Israel protests, when there was a huge blast in the next room. We went in there, papers were flying everywhere, and there was smoke… thank goodness she had put the pager on the desk. Such a crazy, unexplained incident, right?"
Tlaib's staff was questioned on the origin of the pager but provided little clarification. "She said it was a gift from some dear friends," one staffer explained. "Honestly, we thought it was a little weird for a U.S. congresswoman to be carrying a pager in 2024, but didn't really think too much of it. Now it blew up in our office. I guess we're seeing why people stopped carrying pagers now, right? I mean, those things are obviously dangerous!"
At publishing time, police were called to Dearborn, Michigan after reports of several thousand pager explosions in the area.
Snort.
