east_beast
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The lack of reaction is crazy. Wild that in some parts of the world a motherfucker blowing up beside you is just another Tuesday.
Right?The lack of reaction is crazy. Wild that in some parts of the world a motherfucker blowing up beside you is just another Tuesday.
You fail at reading comprehension.I wasn't criticizing the point he was trying to make. I was criticizing the effort he made to dismiss any potential disagreement with it as automatically being anti-Semitic. That was the whole point.
Did you really say that I fail at reading comprehension and then go on a snowflake rant irrelevant to anything I said?You fail at reading comprehension.
Not just my post, multiple posts in multiple threads. Your anti Israeli fervor is only surpassed by your TDS. Funny that you are the only poster that cannot appreciate the genius of this operation or the results achieved. If you were not such a hypocritical prick you may even acknowledge that this probably did not need any US assistance or funding. Heck as mentioned Mossad probably explicitly does not share this sort of intel with the leaky agencies of western countries
because mooosad = sneaky bastardsAnother thing I think is clever about these operations, Israel didn't even have to know the identity of every Hezbollah member, Hezbollah took care of that for them.
Smart bastardsbecause mooosad = sneaky bastards
This give me a great idea. Exploding rubber ducks for jeeps.
Does the average terrorist walk into the ER for treatments for these type of injuries? Gunshots, etc.Pulling this off is impressive on its own but the deeper result could be even more impressive. Post blast they likely know about more bad guys than they did before the mass detonation. The resulting injuries can be easily tracked through communications/hospital records/etc, eventually the bad guys families and their locations will be known. Could this eventually lead to more attacks that eliminate generations of bad guys?
Their doctors all have pagers tooI'd think they would have their own docs that are off the books?
How did the pagers explode in Lebanon?
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said Wednesday that it had authorized the use of its trademarked branding on the pagers that exploded Tuesday, but it said the devices carried by Hezbollah members were manufactured and sold by Bac Consulting KFT — a company based in Budapest, Hungary.
Gold Apollo founder and CEO Hsu Ching-kuang told NPR Wednesday that "there was nothing in those devices that we had manufactured or exported to them [BAC]."
CBS News has asked Bac Consulting where and how its devices are manufactured and sold, but has not received any reply either over the phone or via email.
Responding to CBS News in a text message, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said the Hungarian leader's office had "no knowledge/info on the matter."
In a social media post later Wednesday, Kovács described Bac Consulting as "a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary," adding that the company "has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary."
It remains unclear exactly how many pagers blew up on Tuesday, but a senior Lebanese security official and another source told the Reuters news agency that Israel's Mossad intelligence agency had planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 devices, which it said were ordered by Hezbollah just months before the blasts.
The AP and the New York Times, citing unnamed U.S. officials, also said the pagers detonated Tuesday had small amounts of explosives inside them, along with embedded switches that could be detonated remotely.
The Times said the devices carried as little as one to two ounces of explosives, embedded next to their batteries. Citing Lebanese officials, the newspaper said the affected pagers received a message at 3:30 p.m. local time that appeared to have come from Hezbollah leadership, but which activated the explosives.
Margaret Brennan, Emmet Lyons, Tucker Reals, Camilla Schick, Olivia Gazis, Charlie D'Agata and Eleanor Watson contributed to this report
They own the hospitalsDoes the average terrorist walk into the ER for treatments for these type of injuries? Gunshots, etc.
I'd think they would have their own docs that are off the books?
No idea though.
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher/File Photo© Thomson Reuters
By James Mackenzie
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel bombed southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it had thwarted an Iran-backed assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios followed blasts in booby trapped pagers, setting the foes hurtling towards war.
The sophisticated attacks on communications equipment used by Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah have sown disarray in Lebanon, and are increasingly viewed as heralding a return to all-out war, last fought 18 years ago.
Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south in the country's deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel in parallel with the Gaza war nearly a year ago.
The previous day, hundreds of pagers - used by Hezbollah to evade mobile phone surveillance - exploded at once, killing 12 people including two children, and injuring nearly 3,000.
Israel has not commented directly on the attacks, but multiple security sources have said was carried out by its spy agency Mossad.
Israeli security services said on Thursday they had arrested an Israeli citizen last month on suspicion of involvement in an Iranian-backed assassination plot. The businessman with connections in Turkey had attended at least two meetings in Iran to discuss assassinating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister or the head of the Shin Bet spy agency.
“Time to punish wrong people…” Israelis ‘rejoice’ as pager explosions strike Hezbollah in Lebanon
Overnight, Israeli jets and artillery hit multiple targets in southern Lebanon, Israel's military said.
The military said air strikes hit Hezbollah targets in Chihine, Tayibe, Blida, Meiss El Jabal, Aitaroun and Kfarkela in southern Lebanon, as well as a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area of Khiam.
Israeli media reported that a number of Israeli civilians had been wounded by anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon but there was no official confirmation.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah fired around 20 projectiles into Israel, most of which were intercepted by air defence systems without causing any injuries, the military said.
SHIFTING FOCUS
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the Israeli-Lebanon border in parallel with the war Israel has waged in Gaza against Hamas, the Palestinian militant group whose fighters attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
Tens of thousands of people have had to flee the Israel-Lebanon border area on both sides. Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to return the evacuated Israelis "securely to their homes".
On Wednesday, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the war was moving into a new phase, with more resources and military units now being shifted to the northern border.
According to Israeli officials, the forces being deployed there include the 98th Division, an elite formation including commando and paratroop elements that has been fighting in Gaza.
Hezbollah launched missile barrages on Israel on the day after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and since then there has been a constant exchange of fire that neither side has allowed to escalate into a full-scale war.
However, tens of thousands have been evacuated on both sides of the border, and there has been mounting pressure in Israel for the government to get the evacuees back home.
The Bee is on point with this stuff.
Hezbollah Starting To Think They Shouldn't Have Gotten Pagers From Levi Goldbraumstein's Pager Emporium
BEIRUT — As new reports of further devastation continued to filter in after yesterday's shocking incidents of exploding communication devices, Hezbollah leaders had begun to think they shouldn't have purchased large quantities of pagers from Levi Goldbraumstein's Pager Emporium.babylonbee.com
Hezbollah Starting To Think They Shouldn't Have Gotten Pagers From Levi Goldbraumstein's Pager EmporiumThe Bee is on point with this stuff.
Hezbollah Starting To Think They Shouldn't Have Gotten Pagers From Levi Goldbraumstein's Pager Emporium
BEIRUT — As new reports of further devastation continued to filter in after yesterday's shocking incidents of exploding communication devices, Hezbollah leaders had begun to think they shouldn't have purchased large quantities of pagers from Levi Goldbraumstein's Pager Emporium.babylonbee.com
In my opinion, this ranks as the greatest singular event of its kind in the history of the world. On a smaller scale, it is akin to the Mongol sacking of Baghdad/Babylon, the Normandy D Day Landings, the detonation of Fat boy over Japan or the Russians taking Berlin. Nothing on this scale with this degree of righteous precision has ever happened before.
Never heard of "Natanz".
It was impressive, but the shear amount of collateral damage was even more so. It was a brute force attack and had to infect the whole world to work. It also relied on a large amount of luck.IMO it was a technical feat that was considered impossible - hacking a computer without ever touching it - or even accessing the network it wasn't connected to.
The level of sophistication and detail required to accomplish that far outweighs intercepting a shipment of devices and altering them.
I'm pretty sure I read that the centrifuge controls were air gapped, and someone physically got the Stuxnet malware into the systems via USB drive(s).IMO it was a technical feat that was considered impossible - hacking a computer without ever touching it - or even accessing the network it wasn't connected to.
The level of sophistication and detail required to accomplish that far outweighs intercepting a shipment of devices and altering them.