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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 17 19:56:12 2024
    Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions across Lebanon

    Hezbollah calls it biggest security breach in war with Israel
    Hezbollah fighters are among those killed, the group says
    Pagers used to try to avoid Israeli tracking
    No comment from Israeli military or government
    Air France cancels flights to Beirut, Tel Aviv

    Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after
    accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing
    nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others who included fighters and
    Iran's envoy to Beirut.
    ...
    ...
    The death toll rose from eight to nine on Tuesday night while the
    number of injured remained at 2,750, Lebanon's health ministry said.
    ...
    ...
    In one instance, closed-circuit surveillance video carried by regional broadcasters showed a person paying at a grocery store as what
    appeared to be a small handheld device placed next to the cashier
    exploded.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Sep 18 10:53:30 2024
    On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:56:12 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions across Lebanon

    Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says it didn't make pagers used in
    Lebanon

    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.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/18/gold-apollo-hezbollah-lebanon-pagers/

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Sep 18 17:30:37 2024
    JAB wrote:

    On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:56:12 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid>
    wrote:

    Hezbollah vows to punish Israel after pager explosions
    across Lebanon

    Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says it didn't make pagers used
    in Lebanon

    Of course it didn't, the Mossad made them... well, a shell
    company under licence from Gold Apollo.

    Unless we are to believe small explosives - that detonate at
    exactly the same time - are a standard part of a
    telecommunications pager's construction.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to blueshirt@indigo.news on Wed Sep 18 18:47:05 2024
    On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:30:37 +0100, "Blueshirt"
    <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    Mossad
    The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations

    From a "Skunk Works" perspective, very well done.

    Hezbollah's leadership failed for not doing their 'homework' ==========================
    CNN
    Live updates: Walkie-talkies explode in Lebanon day after deadly pager
    attack
    ========================

    On Tuesday, hundreds of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members
    and associates in Lebanon and Syria exploded, killing at least 12
    people, including two children, and injuring nearly 3,000. Then, in a
    follow-up attack on Wednesday, thousands of two-way radios used by the
    group exploded, killing nine people and wounding some 300, some of
    whom had been attending the funerals of those killed in the earlier
    attack. There have also been reports of solar energy systems exploding
    in several areas of Lebanon, but few details have been reported about
    these incidents.
    ...
    ...
    The attack has stunned former intelligence operatives with both its
    scale and sophistication. "This is a hell of an opp," Marc
    Polymeropoulos, a former CIA counterterrorism specialist now with the
    Atlantic Council, told Vox. "It's probably the most impressive kinetic intelligence operation I've ever seen."

    https://www.vox.com/world-politics/372772/hezbollah-israel-pagers-radios-lebanon

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