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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] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Until you account for all the innocent people it hurt.

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No, they were being serious.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Which version of lib are you using?