Ooooooo.…old school! tugging forelock Nice.
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‘TEXAS DIP!’
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If this article is true and Israel made these pagers, that’s even more amazing because Israel got the profit from this. So Hezbollah is funding Israelis.
The whole thing is unbelievably amazing. It was an intensely surgical strike against known terrorist operatives.
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U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Talib is upset about the whole thing. Shocker. Paying attention folks?
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Turns out It wasn’t them hacking it and then overloading the battery’s (The whole reason they got them was because it’s practically impossible to hack them.) Insted after Hezbollah ordered them from a Taiwanese company that built them in Belgium. It apears the israeles intersepted the shipment from Belgium somewhere enrout and replaced one of the twin batteries in each with a small explosive. Not as cool but still seriously Impresive.
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As a former Army Logistician, this makes me wonder how secure our military commo gear is.
The moldy armor and machinegun parts recently shipped to Taiwan in wet cardboard raises concern over protocols not being adhered to. Sort of like how the Secret Service selects security details.
Is somebody in the government asleep at the wheel?
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Here ya go bud. My pleasure to help
Crank It up.
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The pagers I’ve seen stated this was the case, yes. The radios have been found to be counterfeit Icom units that Icom says they haven’t produced in a decade. They’re also missing Icoms holographic foil sticker. The running theory on those is Israel made counterfeits of units they knew the Iranians were delivering and slipped the counterfeit units with explosives into their supply chain.
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… .especially around dudes on the phone, pager, walkie talkies or opening up a freshly delivered Koran! 
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Exclusive-Hezbollah handed out pagers hours before blasts - even after checks (msn.com)
By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon’s Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands blew up this week, two security sources said, indicating the group was confident the devices were safe despite an ongoing sweep of electronic kit to identify threats.
One member of the Iranian-backed militia received a new pager on Monday that exploded the next day while it was still in its box, said one of the sources.
A pager given to a senior member just days earlier injured a subordinate when it detonated, the second source said.
In an apparently coordinated attack the Gold Apollo branded devices detonated on Tuesday across Hezbollah’s strongholds of south Lebanon, Beirut’s suburbs and the eastern Bekaa valley.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Hezbollah walkie-talkies exploded. The consecutive attacks killed 37 people, including at least two children, and injured more than 3,000 people.
The batteries of the walkie-talkies were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN, another Lebanese source familiar with the device’s components told Reuters on Friday. Up to three grams of explosives hidden in the pagers had gone undetected for months by Hezbollah, Reuters reported earlier this week.
One of the security sources said it was very hard to detect the explosives “with any device or scanner.” The source did not specify what type of scanners Hezbollah had run the pagers through.
Hezbollah examined the pagers after they were delivered to Lebanon, starting in 2022, including by travelling through airports with them to ensure they would not trigger alarms, two additional sources told Reuters. In total, Reuters spoke to six sources familiar with the details of the exploding devices for this story.
The sources did not specify the name of the airports where they conducted the tests.
Lebanon and Hezbollah say Israel was behind the attacks. Israel’s secretive military intelligence Unit 8200 was involved in the planning, a Western security source told Reuters this week. Israel, which has since stepped up airstrikes on Lebanon, has neither denied or confirmed involvement.
Rather than a specific suspicion of the pagers, the checks had been part of a routine “sweep” of its equipment, including communications devices, to find any indications that they were laced with explosives or surveillance mechanisms, one of the security sources said.
The attacks, and the distribution of the devices despite the routine sweep and checks for breaches, have struck at Hezbollah’s reputation as the most formidable of Iran’s allied ‘Axis of Resistance’ umbrella of anti-Israel irregular forces across the Middle East.
In a televised speech on Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said the attacks were “unprecedented in the history” of the group.
Hezbollah’s media office and Israel’s armed forces did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.
Taiwan-based Gold Apollo has said it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, saying they were made by a company in Europe licensed to use the firm’s brand. Reuters has not been able to establish where they were made or at what point they were tampered with.
A batch of 5,000 of the pagers were brought into Lebanon earlier this year. Reuters previously reported that Hezbollah turned to pagers in an attempt to evade Israeli surveillance of its mobile phones, following the killing of senior commanders in targeted airstrikes over the past year.
Hezbollah’s conflict with Israel dates back decades but has flared up in the past year in parallel with the Gaza war, heightening worries of a full-blown regional war.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
After the pagers detonated on Tuesday, Hezbollah suspected more of its devices may have been compromised, two of the security sources, as well as an intelligence source, told Reuters.
In response, it intensified the sweep of its communications systems, carrying out careful examinations of all devices. It also began investigating the supply chains through which the pagers were brought in, the two security sources said.
But the review had not been concluded by Wednesday afternoon, when the hand-held radios exploded.
Hezbollah believes that Israel opted to detonate the group’s hand-held radios because it feared Hezbollah would soon find that the walkie-talkies were also rigged with explosives, one of the sources told Reuters.
The walkie-talkie explosions left 25 people dead and at least 650 injured, according to Lebanon’s health ministry - a much higher fatality rate than the previous day’s pager blasts, which killed 12 and wounded nearly 3,000.
That is because they carried a higher payload of explosives than the beepers, one of the security sources and the intelligence source said.
The group’s probe into precisely where, when and how the devices were laced with explosives is ongoing, three of the sources said. Nasrallah later said the same in the speech on Thursday.
One of the security sources said Hezbollah had foiled previous Israeli operations targeting devices imported from abroad by the group - from its private landline telephones to ventilation units in the group’s offices.
That includes suspected breaches in the past year.
“There are several electronic issues that we were able to discover - but not the pagers,” the source said. “They tricked us, hats off to the enemy.”
(Reporting by Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
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Good article Brother-man, except for this OBVIOUS mis-quote.
The Walkie Talkies were more EFFECTIVE because the Rag head held them up to their Ear/Head! (DUH!)
(and the higher payload didn’t hurt either! 
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—Capt. Obvious strikes again!
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I am going off topic for a second (BUT! phone related)
I really hope and pray that the Israeli’s ‘shared’ this information/Technology
with their American cousins (US) and we pre-planned so to speak and loaded up
these Southern INVADERS phones w/ these explosives before we dolled them out to
every Jose, Juan and Pedro who slinked across our Border.
I would personally volunteer to go around sweeping up the debris of a successful mission.
Pudding and cackles don’t want these people hurt, Hurt people can’t vote.
But our President has the foresight to see a problem in advance and actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
I’m not living in a dream world (usually) but I hope and pray some ‘Good Guy’ said ‘There’s no way we can deport (20) MILLION Invaders’ (knowing damn well a lot of these folk’s are specifically here to KILL as many of us as possible) If it were just a matter of these aXXholes coming here for their slice of the American Pie that would suck but I could live with that…sort of. But these bottom of the barrel Terrorists, Murderers and Rapists will not go quietly into the good night even if El Presidente Trumpo asked nicely. We have a HUGE task on our hands and I damn well know this current .gov will do EVERYTHING in their power to thwart us in stopping the Election Fraud, Deportation, Swamp Clearing that needs to be done if we are to ever right our ship.
We have our work cut out for us. I hope a lot of us are getting right with what we are being forced to do.
WWG1WGA
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dude… messed up…
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WHAT’s messed up ?
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well gee I don’t know maby suggesting killing 20 million people.
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too far dude tooooo faaaar
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I never suggested KILLING (20) million people, ever
the deportation will take care of the majority of Illegals
But the sad fact is there are Terrorists in our midst (FACT)
These folk’s are not here to give up or surrender if cornered.
I’ve fought some of these folk’s and they are just fxxkin’ crazy
(Besides the fact that some of them EXPECT TO DIE! Dying serves two
purposes for these people 1) They go to their version of Heaven (72) Virgins and all that
2) IT PLEASES THE PROPHET ! That alone will make some strap on a vest ,
Fly planes into buildings or other suicidal
actions. Actually there’s a third reason 3) TO KILL THE INFIDEL’S !
Any Infidel men, Women, children it doesn’t matter. That’s pretty sick.
So, If I went to far I am sorry (actually I’m not) but it appeases some people
if you apologize before Lockin’ and Loading. Whatever gets you through.
I’ve said the many times, I’m a Realist, I KNOW a Battle is coming when I see it.
I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES. This administration F**ked us royally
and the only way out of this mess is to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
If that offends you then I AM SORRY (Truly)
But many of us here know we are going to fight.
Those folk’s should prepare mentally and physically for that fight.
These Terrorists won’t say ‘Hey, they mean business we better go home’
This is a SUCK situation ‘CC’ EMBRACE THE SUCK! I DID!
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I don’t see where he said ”kill” 20 million people….
The pager attack killed 8 and injured 3000….
We have a sweeping problem to deal with though!
We can NOT afford to support them if they aren’t supporting our economy. PERIOD
How many of these people are here to cause harm to us? To cause harm to YOU?
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Yes. Yes, there are potentially many more thousands in Country now than what were injured in Lebanon with electronics.
OUR LEADERS (The regime) WELCOMED them in. That’s aiding and abetting the enemy.
The President has a SWORN duty to protect the states from invasion. Instead, biden ENABLED the invasion, beginning on day one after the election coup. That’s treason, after election treason.
What do YOU propose we do CC, sit back (no, LIE DOWN) and accept the new reality?
We are INDEED in a SUCK SITUATION.
Letting terrorists run roughshod on our liberty is NOT AN OPTION.
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