Yea this is not the "(F)ind (O)ut" stage of memes. This is reaping the whirlwind. Old Testament in the most brutal and unironic fashion. As a non-religious person, I am predicting an amount of reverence and infamy attributed to this moment that perhaps is a rival to the Hamas attack, which makes a lot of sense as I type it. Maybe I've been too deep into the bowels of military actions and equipment for too long to see straight, but... It's breathtaking. Implications can hardly even be assessed!
Jews are wicked smart.....from finances to nuclear physics....if they formed a nation and army they'll be a force to be reconned with...oh wait they already have lol Fun fact they gave nukes too as a open secret. Surrounded by enemies with a small population but the strongest military in the middle east and on par with the west as well.
Hey, you can't run around saying you want to wipe your enemy from the face of the earth... and then claim foul when they think of a nasty, underhanded way to take you out.
Yeah, it seems like it's only getting worse and worse about how one side will accuse the other of something dastardly. And that's like, well, look what you're doing and saying, you're no better. You're literally no better at all. and somehow you can't see it?
They bought them from Taiwan. Iran ordered 5000 pagers. It was an unusual order because who uses pager these days. So some Mossad agent infiltrated the Taiwanese company and implanted 5 gram of plastic explosives in each pager. They programmed it so that it would explode when it receives a certain signal or message.
By indiscriminately detonating these devices causing thousands of innocent civilians in public places to get hurt including the death of a child and several medical professionals who, yes, even in the US carry pagers
The problem is it's a clear war crime regarding any of the Hezbollah killed that were politicians not soldiers aren't considered legal combatants. Not to mention the many injured and killed civilians (including children). Buuuut since when has Israel worried about international law lately, let alone civilian children?
@@billcallahan9303The batteries were half filled with PETN with the remaining room actually containing a battery. When a coded beeper message was received the chip inside the battery detonated the PETN. 15g of PETN makes a pretty good small hand grenade. The rest of the radio and pager were manufacturer standard devices and directed the blast at the wearer.
Israel generously has offered to replace all the malfunctioning pagers with new ones. Please send your complaint to the mossad and include the reason you're not pleased with your device Thank you.
what they need a new explosive? it all sounds fishy in that a pager is small and light you would notice and extra 1 or 2 ounces. i think that is a lie. they used a much more nefarious system but don't want us to know.
Over 3k combatants removed from going to battle with in just few minutes. The explosion on their waist opening up their stomachs, imagine how dirty that is. Solder, electrolytes from capacitor, computer boards and who knows what’s on the outside. I would wager the number of infected wounds will be higher than expected. Historic attack, over 3k fighters taken down in around 4 minutes. Incredible to come up with and to execute this plan. Just wow. My only question is about the Iranian ambassador, odd for his pager to blow up ya think?
I'm a retired security officer and during my working career I spent time working at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta back in the 90s. Because of a memorandum the security office at the airport had received from Wayne County Sheriff's Office which did security for the Detroit Airport, about a situation where a couple of gang members for caught with a pager which had been modified with a trigger mechanism to fire a 9 mm round. That's why we started checking cell phones and pagers even back then to make sure they were what they said they were when you went through checkpoint. Israeli intelligence just took that idea to the next level instead of bullets it was explosive inside pagers. And with the radios they probably put plastic explosives disguised as one of the batteries inside the radios ., and remotely trigger them
what phone were they using with the pager in the 90s? i guess it wasn't an iPhone and wow for me if I want privacy I won't use a Pager I'll use Signal and be very secure.
@user-qd6nn6sj5v ... plastic explosives disguised as a battery inside the pagers (and/or radios) ... thanks for the info 👍 PS: Hezbollah trusting Taiwan ? Incredibly, asking for trouble !!
@@paulwood6729 Modern phones aren't 'off' until the battery is removed, and that's not a user-option with many of them. Which is intentional and says something about the companies making them this way.
Presumably, they would have had software clones of all of the pagers so they could see who was receiving operational messages. Would love to know who planned the operation two years ago. And the guy that convinced Hez to switch to pagers for information security has probably left town.
In a BBC interview, a medical doctor in Lebanese hospital related how most, if not virtually all, of the injured were young male patients. Which reinforces the idea that this was a highly surgical strike of sorts, meaning designed and carried out specifically to avoid harming civilians. Only to Hezbollah terrorists in the war with Israel.
@@archdornan3694 Yes, I thought someone would be idiot enough to say that. Take a good look at the video that is online where people are in a shop and the people next to the man with exploding pants are ALL completely unharmed. The images in your head created by these explosions: young macho men being turned into young macho girls make it hard not to snigger, at least a little bit. If Israel does invade, these terrorist leaders, those with pagers are leaders, will be easy to find because thousands of disfigured young men, blinded, missing hands and.....missing other parts....can't just disappear. Almost no one caught in these explosions were innocent victims, rather, they would identify themselves as ''soldiers'' and paid a high price. I feel very sorry for those couple of children, but not their parents, for their father, if he's still ''intact'', will soon be at it, making a few replacements for his lost kids. Their mother definitely won't have any say in the matter, ''just lie back and think of Hezbollah'', to make the picture complete.
Israel doesn't mess around. When Mossad wants somebody taken care of - They will be taken care of, end of story. Not going to say what Israel did was great since there were some civilians harmed but it is undeniably impressive - They've managed to target countless enemies with near (literal) surgical precision. War is a very ugly, unfair business... Unfortunately its the situation Israel is in with enemies on all sides.
@@kulkrafts3143 The civilians killed didn't have the pagers on them- they just happened to be in the pocket or bag or hand of somebody close to them when they went off. Collateral damage, as sad as that is to say.
From everything I'm hearing, to me it sounds like somebody in Hezbollah's own organization sold them out. You'd have to know the date of order as well as the lot number. Then you'd need to tracking number in order to know where the order was. Somebody got paid quite a lot.
This is some literal James Bond level of spy gadgetry lol A product that works, is in a genuine packaging, and yet _can still go boom!_ This is like the little micro-drone spy-copters from a decade or more back 😅
Maybe. This might be contested by Mossad killing Haniyeh via explosives planted in a room that they thought he would be staying in 2 months prior to the hit. Also, he was in Iran for the swearing in of the new president, whose predecessor died in that helicopter crash EXACTLY 1 month after Iran launched that attack on Israel...to the day... If it went down the way I think it did, getting a killstreak on heads of state in Iran by using the assassination of one to lure the other into a trapped room, while still leaving it ambiguous over whether the first death was a hit is just next level.
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As an engineer I am truly in awe of this move. People keep talking about fingers and eyes being injured. Ummm... A pager is at private parts level. Oh yeah, how do you know how is Hezbollah. Well Mr. 6 fingers, Mr. 1 eye, Mr. 7 fingers... Kind of like an ID badge. Frodo look out.
@@andrewlisciandrello6920 Usually the kids that got hurt were junior recruits. You don't need to be a teenager to pull a trigger. Kids should be in school or playing football, not hanging around militants, unless they are militants.
@@larion2336 You don't think they are innocent. You're just saying it to try and justify your position. If you need to lie (even to yourself) to make your point, maybe, just maybe, you're making the wrong point.
@@pawpawstew fun fact: both the IDF and Mossad started as a terrorist organizations before Israel existed. Remember: your terrorist is someone else's righteous revolutionary.
Israel: How do we let them know that they have no secrets; no place to hide; there’s no capability we don’t have; and fill them with a paranoid dread? Mossad: I might have an idea…
Some have been taken apart by lebenese explosives experts. They encased the battery in petn which is a heat sensitive explosive and then loaded programming that could overheat the battery to cause a detonation.
I would have thought they could just remotely short the Li-ion batteries, causing them to explode. Or “vent violently” like we were told PRC-77 batteries would if shorted.
Your description of the device fits the information that I've read which indicates that there was only 3 grams of explosive in the pagers, but didn't identify they substance. The reports about the pagers getting hot and smoking before detonation now make sense. PETN needs to get to ~140° C to go off. I'm guessing that there are a lot of people who were spared because their batteries weren't fully charged.
This operation should be added to Guinness World Records... With everything going on, remember-your health is your strongest asset. Stay well-informed and take care of yourself..
Aside from all the other incredible and near impossible elements to this attack, I note that the same tampering was done with the 2 way radios, which presumably came from a different source. I am stunned that, given the events of tuesday with the pagers, that noone in Hezbollah thought about the radios which must, after all, have *also* been purchased in bulk following the same directive to avoid cell phones.
I very much doubt they are tampered with. These will be custom clone Icom IC-V82's that are made to look and operate like the real thing. The pagers were made under brand license. These are almost certainly completely custom devices a capability that Israel almost certainly possesses. Look if you can design and manufacture the Iron Dome missile defense system exploding pagers and walkie-talkies is child's play.
To be fair, by the pure definition of what a terrorist is in the dictionary, pretty much every nation on the planet has been a terrorist country or organization at one time or another, yes, including the US.
There are reports Hezbollah operatives has been ordered to refrain from using electronic devices for the time being. Furthermore, Hezbollah will be using carrier pigeons for communication purposes until further notice.
@@soggybiscotti8425it's traceable.. That's why they stopped using phones.. Osama bin Laden was not using any modern equipment.. That's why it took ages to find him..
@@soggybiscotti8425did you not watch the video? Israel the U.S. and literally any remotely capable country (even Russia) can monitor cell phones and intercept data
Hassan Nasrallah: "Hello, Apollo technical support, I'd like to report a manufacturing defect". Mossad: "We're sorry for any inconvenience caused, would you like a replacement unit? No? Yahweh Akbar!"
Your mistake is assuming Hezbollah cares about the territorial boundaries of the Lebanese government. They would prefer the government lose all credibility so they can usurp power.
Although I get how my reply will likely be taken as a put-down, that is not my intent : Maybe read a book if you hope to achieve anything beyond a simplistic , uninformed perspective. Generally when we don't understand why other groups seem to behave without logic, it indicates we don't understand their position.
The latest analyses show the supply companies were shell fronts for Israeli operations cloning the devices. The explosives were not alongside the batteries, but actually embedded in them, with the effect of somewhat reducing the mAh capacity and using the lithium as a secondary explosive.
Since the carriers of these pagers had likely traveled throughout the Middle East visiting airports train stations, etc.. What kind of explosives could have been used, that would escape detection in places where there are security systems designed to detect explosives?
Are people in non-Israeli Middle Eastern airports and train stations known for their diligent security? Or are they known for corruption and taking bribes?
If the PETN explosive was carefully packaged inside of sealed plastic, which was carefully cleaned of any PETN residue, then it would be unlikely to be detected. Also, routine security screening generally doesn't include explosives sniffing devices. Most security screening is just x-ray and a cursory glance at devices and other objects in luggage. Within the region, only Israel employs more rigorous security screening for explosives. Even then, they likely wouldn't detect a sealed explosive industrially cleaned.
Even in US airports they only make you turn on your electronic devices. The only check for explosive residue I've ever seen are swabbing handles of bags. They used to use dogs, but I haven't seen any in ages.
As someone who had been working in Taiwan's electronic industry for over 10 years... Let me tell you it is not hard to modify thousands of units of pager. What's hard is coming up with the module to control and trigger the explosive. That part will take a while to design and test, likely before the shipment even begins. When you have the proper module designed and tested, you start production on the control module, and explosive integrated battery. Once the shipment is intercepted, it can be dragged into a warehouse where workshop had been setup. This part is what we call "reworking", you open the package carefully, remove only what you need, and laid them out in an efficient manner. Now you open up 5 to 10 units in one go, pop the original battery out, pop in the new control module and explosive+battery back in. Close it back up, turn on to check, turn off, wipe it clean, and pass it back to someone focused on packing and unpacking. Similar stuff like this are done all the time when manufacturing faults are found after shipment. IMHO, those who think this is so hard and need to be done at the OEM factory level... Well, they likely never had any experience in the industry.
Some additional context. From what i understood of Israel's industry, it is highly likely they will have no difficulty have the control module fully made locally, from off the shelf local and imported components. The modification of the pager itself do not need anyone that holds clearance to classified information. All you need is semi skilled electronic assembly worker, tell them you are "improving performance" with the new battery and circuit board module. For the workers, they wouldn't care either way.
Israel found out Hezbollah was looking for a supplier for pagers , so Israel bought up the current supply , modified them with a new operating system and "extra spicy" batteries and then sold them cheap enough to win the contract.
Not hard (if you have pre-made components and a prepared facility to do the mod.) Not hard (if you have enough skilled operatives to actually do the work in question) Not hard at all. Very hard (unless you have the raw intelligence to get the sign off for the operation) Very very hard (unless you already have a facility to do the work in, or for you) Very very hard (unless those you do the work are very very loyal to you - or - genuinely cannot tell the 'new components' are 'dodgy' - Most people would be able to spot a 'plasticine' type substance wrapped around one of the batteries...) Secrecy - The people who did the 'work' must be trusted to stay quiet.... the more people, the harder that becomes. The use of civilian workers..... can be problematic.... blackmail, coercion, bribery all work..... until it doesn't. Without being horribly cynical.... I'd start looking/investigating strange warehouse fires ... with casualties...
Why have you gone down this rabbit hole of trying to figure out who supplied these pagers? Who modified these pagers? Does it really matter? The Israelis did it and hats off to them!
In the long term, both Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli organizations are going to be very mistrustful of modern technology, especially for communications. And that mistrust just might have the bigger impact.
Having designed POCSAG pagers for Multitone Electronics in London 40 years ago similar in function to the Apollo Gold pagers, it is pretty clear what happened. The Apollo pagers are rechargeable via a USB C cable so the inside is never exposed for example to replace a battery. All of the pagers received a so called "group call" initiated by Mossad via the Lebanese service provider which would be used to trigger a specific piece of hardware - the pagers are much thicker than conventional display pagers so have plenty of room for a lithium battery plus a detonator and explosive. All the normal functions including vibrate would be preserved to avoid any suspicion and only the manufacturer would know about the special group call. Having detected the call, the pager circuit would probably use the pager call cancel button to initiate a detonation where the lithium battery was shorted through a resistor to create a sufficiently high temperature to ignite the detonator which then detonated a small explosive charge. Hence the pager warming up prior to the explosion.
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Israel has condemned this attack and has offered to replace all pagers and walkie talkies for survivors.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha...
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Israel sure does know how to send a message
'It's not about the pager... it's about sending a message"
Pun detected
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
I will expel the ✡️ and ☦️ from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim
Sahih Muslim 1767 a
@@Islam-Unraveled Mohammed liked to touch little girls, you're welcome Haji.
@Islam-Unraveled along with dozens of wonderful contradictions and idea from a false prophet who was his own confirmation
This operation is absolutely bonkers. The logistics... Straight bonkers. Wow. 😳
This 100%
The implications, bonkers.
Yea this is not the "(F)ind (O)ut" stage of memes. This is reaping the whirlwind. Old Testament in the most brutal and unironic fashion. As a non-religious person, I am predicting an amount of reverence and infamy attributed to this moment that perhaps is a rival to the Hamas attack, which makes a lot of sense as I type it. Maybe I've been too deep into the bowels of military actions and equipment for too long to see straight, but... It's breathtaking. Implications can hardly even be assessed!
Something straight out of movies like Mission Impossible and Bourne Identity
Jews are wicked smart.....from finances to nuclear physics....if they formed a nation and army they'll be a force to be reconned with...oh wait they already have lol
Fun fact they gave nukes too as a open secret.
Surrounded by enemies with a small population but the strongest military in the middle east and on par with the west as well.
Dammmm......Imagine the psychological damage from this - they wouldn't even trust a light bulb after it.
Creating terror among terrorists. The irony. Anyone who thinks this is bad is an Arab terrorist
They are due to arrive in a few weeks.
Light bulbs??? Hmmm
They're back to the stone age! Pushing everything with a stick.
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Hey, you can't run around saying you want to wipe your enemy from the face of the earth... and then claim foul when they think of a nasty, underhanded way to take you out.
Gays for Gaza should go to Israel, Egypt, Saudi, Lebanon, Jordan, and Gaza with their pride flags and see where their rights are respected.
Israel is committing a literal genocide, westerners need to wake up & realize that our media is literal Zionist propaganda
Yeah, it seems like it's only getting worse and worse about how one side will accuse the other of something dastardly. And that's like, well, look what you're doing and saying, you're no better. You're literally no better at all. and somehow you can't see it?
@@dosmastrify except the Muslims want to kill the Jews on their land, and the Jews want to live in peach with Muslims on their land
Indees, these islamists are such a funny bunch.
When they are forced to switch to pen and paper, they better watch out for those Mossad shock pens.
Israeli practical jokes is no joke.
They might switch to pigeons.
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@@SCH292 No please, no pigeons. I don't want animals to suffer.
How about smoke signals. At the moment the main thing smoking is Hezbollah terrorists and their pockets.
The ancient Chinese Proverb that states " Never buy a pager from an Israeli Salesman" still holds true today.
Sun Tzu - The art of war
They bought them from Taiwan. Iran ordered 5000 pagers. It was an unusual order because who uses pager these days. So some Mossad agent infiltrated the Taiwanese company and implanted 5 gram of plastic explosives in each pager. They programmed it so that it would explode when it receives a certain signal or message.
They bought them from Taiwan. Iran ordered 5000 pagers and it was a very unusual order. Who uses pagers these days?
You mean if you’re a terrorist, and you actually believe the Chinese.
@@abhijeetkundu7123They switched to older tech, because they knew Israel could tap all their comms
And that bit them in a big way. hehe
This attack immediately dismantled all of Hezbollahs communications infrastructure. They went from radios and pagers to napkins and paper airplanes.
@@kurtisb100 And smoke signals.
They turned them into the Amish in less than 5 mins.
@@CptJistuce Yeah, lots and lots of smoke signals.
lol.
Funny but not true lol. Their communications infrastructure was in place far before these devices were handed out
Hezbollah was convinced by buying these pagers they would get the most bang for the buck
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Meanwhile in Kabul it went Ka-bum!
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They probably ordered them that way for use against their enemies, but got the shipments mixed up and issued them to their own operatives.....
lol!
Hezbollah 100% thought those pagers were fool proof and a good way to communicate so Israel took advantage of that confidence.
By indiscriminately detonating these devices causing thousands of innocent civilians in public places to get hurt including the death of a child and several medical professionals who, yes, even in the US carry pagers
True! But How? I've been watching this loudmouth for 30 minutes & still haven't found out. He's gotten on my nerves.
The problem is it's a clear war crime regarding any of the Hezbollah killed that were politicians not soldiers aren't considered legal combatants. Not to mention the many injured and killed civilians (including children). Buuuut since when has Israel worried about international law lately, let alone civilian children?
@@billcallahan9303The batteries were half filled with PETN with the remaining room actually containing a battery. When a coded beeper message was received the chip inside the battery detonated the PETN.
15g of PETN makes a pretty good small hand grenade.
The rest of the radio and pager were manufacturer standard devices and directed the blast at the wearer.
"Knowledge Rules The World Ignorance Carries The Burden".
How to give a vasectomy=COVERTLY.
With no anesthetic. lol
You carry a pager on your ballsack?
Wtf you talking about....
Yeah, you can bet that wearing these on the front belt line or kept in a pocket, resulted in the loss of their "little friend"!
@professorg8383 Definitely gonna leave a mark.
More like an orchiectomy.
Messenger pigeons are now making a comeback
Project Pigeon is SO back
In some circles, they never left.
Imagine a pigeon exploding the moment you touch it.
Operation Dick Dastardly ;-)
I imagine that the Mossad and IDF have the FALCON countermeasure system ready for operation.
Israel generously has offered to replace all the malfunctioning pagers with new ones. Please send your complaint to the mossad and include the reason you're not pleased with your device Thank you.
"please come in person..." i think you mean.
Yup! And they probably sent them a "Butt Hurt Form" for complaints..
I heard Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent. Is that why congress always backs Israel because Epstein had dirt on most of them?
what they need a new explosive? it all sounds fishy in that a pager is small and light you would notice and extra 1 or 2 ounces. i think that is a lie. they used a much more nefarious system but don't want us to know.
@@bissetttom1738your cell phone is a computer with AI capabilities. Anything is possible
There's a group of guys somewhere, in a dimly lit room, choked with smoke, and reeking of Turkish coffee, laughing their asses off!
Have you ever met an Israeli?
Mossad will recruit anyone - regardless of nationality, race or creed - that vows to further their cause.
Actually reports say this was thought of by a young female Israeli intelligence officer under 30 years old!
@@NeraBerg13it's diabolical enough for a woman to have thought of it.
imagine the dude who came up with this plan and how satisfied he must be
I still think this had more to do with warranty expiration.
lol
Too right. Apple will start doing this now when they want you to buy the latest product.
We've been trying to reach you about your phones extended warranty....
----- Don't ignore those calls
@@LilStoops L😂L!
Ignored too many extended warranty requests.
Hezbollah and Iran are just salty Mossad keeps out playing them
And it's just gonna keep happening until Iran either provokes a full scale war or takes a page from Egypt and Jordan, and sues for peace.
They dont have a blank check from uncle sam like the terrorist organization mossad
They just got an education
@zibbitybibbitybop well Egypt been supporting Hamas for years with the tunnel network
"...Mossad keeps out playing them" And always will.
And today the 2-way radios are performing rapid unscheduled disassembly, covered by the BBC.
Indeed a rud
RUD!
Sad BBC noises.
@@aytviewer2421 what does that mean?... Is that a British slang we here in MERKA don't use?
@@coodudeman RUD = Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. What does MERKA stand for?
Over 3k combatants removed from going to battle with in just few minutes. The explosion on their waist opening up their stomachs, imagine how dirty that is. Solder, electrolytes from capacitor, computer boards and who knows what’s on the outside. I would wager the number of infected wounds will be higher than expected. Historic attack, over 3k fighters taken down in around 4 minutes. Incredible to come up with and to execute this plan. Just wow. My only question is about the Iranian ambassador, odd for his pager to blow up ya think?
Plus some are speaking in higher voices now they had the family jewels removed.
I'm a retired security officer and during my working career I spent time working at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta back in the 90s. Because of a memorandum the security office at the airport had received from Wayne County Sheriff's Office which did security for the Detroit Airport, about a situation where a couple of gang members for caught with a pager which had been modified with a trigger mechanism to fire a 9 mm round. That's why we started checking cell phones and pagers even back then to make sure they were what they said they were when you went through checkpoint. Israeli intelligence just took that idea to the next level instead of bullets it was explosive inside pagers. And with the radios they probably put plastic explosives disguised as one of the batteries inside the radios ., and remotely trigger them
what phone were they using with the pager in the 90s? i guess it wasn't an iPhone and wow for me if I want privacy I won't use a Pager I'll use Signal and be very secure.
@@Marty_TH-camr Your phone will be tracked, even if you turn it off.
@user-qd6nn6sj5v ... plastic explosives disguised as a battery inside the pagers (and/or radios) ... thanks for the info 👍
PS: Hezbollah trusting Taiwan ? Incredibly, asking for trouble !!
Shouldn't airport security discover residue? Or should dogs be able to smell?
@@paulwood6729 Modern phones aren't 'off' until the battery is removed, and that's not a user-option with many of them. Which is intentional and says something about the companies making them this way.
Nasrallah's most feared phrase: "Hassan! Phone call for you..."
The subscriber you have called isn't available at the moment.please don't try calling again later.tuuuuuuuuut!
It's fair game. They joined the fight for Hamas, so they should expect a response.
Moral of the story: don’t join a terrorist group
The IDF?
@@noncog1
Nope. It is most likely Mossad that showed why you shouldn’t join a terrorist group
@@noncog1 Yes, the IDF!
terrorist according to who?
@@ulysseswho9870
The civilized world
The new muslim chant , from the liver to the knees mossad blew the balls off me!
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Is this a religious thing to you? I see post 9/11 hysteria is still around
@@jamesogden7756 would you like to add some substance or just tell me to use a site I already use?
Mosad once again proving why they are the number one intelligence service in the world.
Except on October 7.
Seriously @@yanceyschwartz
Why do they wear the little hats on their heads?
I heard the text message was "72 virgins"
how did Jahweh work for the Jews? LOL So well that they had to invent a heaven for making good. LOL
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But most of them lost there dik😢😢
@@Shashank-g6i So the goats, uh, virgins, are safe.
@@Shashank-g6i Ahh! you have unveiled Allah's secret, for keeping the 72, virgins all this time!
Does anyone else find it funny they went to a hospital called The American university hospital in Lebanon
Presumably, they would have had software clones of all of the pagers so they could see who was receiving operational messages. Would love to know who planned the operation two years ago. And the guy that convinced Hez to switch to pagers for information security has probably left town.
This is straight out of the kingsmen movie 😂😂😂
Buying from the lowest bidder to get the most bang for your buck doesn't always crack up to be the best.
In a BBC interview, a medical doctor in Lebanese hospital related how most, if not virtually all, of the injured were young male patients. Which reinforces the idea that this was a highly surgical strike of sorts, meaning designed and carried out specifically to avoid harming civilians. Only to Hezbollah terrorists in the war with Israel.
so you think young men can’t be civilians?
@@archdornan3694 Safe to assume that anyone who is in possession of a pager handed out by a militant group isn't a mere civilian.
@@josephnevin and anyone who’s standing near is guilty by association?
@@archdornan3694 Yep. You got it in one.
@@archdornan3694 Yes, I thought someone would be idiot enough to say that. Take a good look at the video that is online where people are in a shop and the people next to the man with exploding pants are ALL completely unharmed. The images in your head created by these explosions: young macho men being turned into young macho girls make it hard not to snigger, at least a little bit. If Israel does invade, these terrorist leaders, those with pagers are leaders, will be easy to find because thousands of disfigured young men, blinded, missing hands and.....missing other parts....can't just disappear. Almost no one caught in these explosions were innocent victims, rather, they would identify themselves as ''soldiers'' and paid a high price. I feel very sorry for those couple of children, but not their parents, for their father, if he's still ''intact'', will soon be at it, making a few replacements for his lost kids. Their mother definitely won't have any say in the matter, ''just lie back and think of Hezbollah'', to make the picture complete.
"... this is a very short fuse edition of Firepower."
That was probably the most gangster moment I've seen from you lol
Israel doesn't mess around. When Mossad wants somebody taken care of - They will be taken care of, end of story. Not going to say what Israel did was great since there were some civilians harmed but it is undeniably impressive - They've managed to target countless enemies with near (literal) surgical precision. War is a very ugly, unfair business... Unfortunately its the situation Israel is in with enemies on all sides.
When Mossad wants somebody taken care of - They will be taken care ... no matter how long it takes..... Be Warned. p
How do civilians get Hezbollah Special Edition pagers provided by Ayatollah?
The civilians were bystanders. All the people with the pagers were actual terrorists.
@@kulkrafts3143they blew them up while in civilian areas, or i guess you think a little girl that died was a legitimate target.
@@kulkrafts3143 The civilians killed didn't have the pagers on them- they just happened to be in the pocket or bag or hand of somebody close to them when they went off. Collateral damage, as sad as that is to say.
A whole new meaning to the slogan from AT&T - ‘reach out and touch someone’
From everything I'm hearing, to me it sounds like somebody in Hezbollah's own organization sold them out. You'd have to know the date of order as well as the lot number. Then you'd need to tracking number in order to know where the order was. Somebody got paid quite a lot.
By Israel I bet
This is some literal James Bond level of spy gadgetry lol A product that works, is in a genuine packaging, and yet _can still go boom!_
This is like the little micro-drone spy-copters from a decade or more back 😅
2024 FLEX of the year?
Maybe. This might be contested by Mossad killing Haniyeh via explosives planted in a room that they thought he would be staying in 2 months prior to the hit. Also, he was in Iran for the swearing in of the new president, whose predecessor died in that helicopter crash EXACTLY 1 month after Iran launched that attack on Israel...to the day...
If it went down the way I think it did, getting a killstreak on heads of state in Iran by using the assassination of one to lure the other into a trapped room, while still leaving it ambiguous over whether the first death was a hit is just next level.
Just imagine how much the Chinese could stuff in our cell phones 😅
And that is a very scary possibility.
Chinese home security camera watching your baby, Chinese LCD TV with voice AI, Chinese EV with camera and lithium batteries?
You don’t even need a bomb.
They've got cyberweapons on your phone and indirect surveillance in your house. They don't need a bomb. They need your search history.
but the Chinese aren't our enemies
@@Cecil-yc6mc the chinese in china certaintly does see america as its enemy lol
Just when you thought the pager attack was insane Israel say hold my beer we got walkie talkies to attend to…😲
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As an engineer I am truly in awe of this move. People keep talking about fingers and eyes being injured. Ummm... A pager is at private parts level. Oh yeah, how do you know how is Hezbollah. Well Mr. 6 fingers, Mr. 1 eye, Mr. 7 fingers... Kind of like an ID badge. Frodo look out.
And at face level of any child who happens to be standing next to someone in a market.
@@andrewlisciandrello6920 As Alex pointed out, this is a complicated contentious incident.
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@@andrewlisciandrello6920 Usually the kids that got hurt were junior recruits. You don't need to be a teenager to pull a trigger. Kids should be in school or playing football, not hanging around militants, unless they are militants.
They monitor hospitals for those injuries and they go straight to Mossods list. Genius!
Israel continues to impress.
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@@Cecil-yc6mcdeep.
@@Gonefishing6572 the snowflake of an OP reported my actual comment. but if the caps fits snowflake.
They injured thousands of innocent civilians. War crimes impress you?
@@larion2336 You don't think they are innocent. You're just saying it to try and justify your position. If you need to lie (even to yourself) to make your point, maybe, just maybe, you're making the wrong point.
Best reporting I’ve seen on this topic. Thank you for your focus on the details.
Did you read the New York Times story?
You are a Former Marine: You had better have some bias against [team yellow] who attacked us at the airport in Beruit in '83.
We never should have had soldiers in Beruit. It's their land, not ours.
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Lebanon was taken over by Iran backed Hezbollah. They're not a sovereign country anymore
When you stop calling the “Hezbollah Operatives” and start just saying “terrorists” it all makes so much more sense.
@@davidkelly3883 yes
There are always 2 sides to a story. You sound like a US maga person
The Israeli version: It was a mostly-peaceful robo-call.
There is no such thing as a peaceful robo call.
Mossad should get a Nobel prize for science.
Strategic sciences... 🤔
@@fspg3207 Nah.
@@fspg3207 Go live in the middle east, take the left with you.
@@CptJistuce true. Zionists won't be living a long time.
@@fspg3207 nah
Don't be part of a terror organization
like the IDF or Mossad?
@@Cecil-yc6mcLeave Israel alone and allow them to exist peacefully, and there are no problems.
@@pawpawstewIdk, West Bank still getting killed and occupied despite cooperating.
@@pawpawstewthat is demonstrably untrue, but go off lol
@@pawpawstew fun fact: both the IDF and Mossad started as a terrorist organizations before Israel existed. Remember: your terrorist is someone else's righteous revolutionary.
Tom Clancy would be proud.
Yup, this is Future War-level of things.
Israel: How do we let them know that they have no secrets; no place to hide; there’s no capability we don’t have; and fill them with a paranoid dread?
Mossad: I might have an idea…
Excellent analysis AS ALWAYS. Thank you Alex.
Our friend Ward Carrol covered this attack as well.....But you went into it a little deeper....Thank you ALEX🇺🇸
Saw that, neither of these have any news that isn't in regular media.
@@ak203 Are you suggesting that the channel would be better if it covered more obscure content? :)
@@dna6882 No, suggesting that original source reporting would be better than just repeating what's in the press.
Yeah..cept you gotta sift through hours to get the info these guys condense into less than 20 mins
Looks like they caught a "Life Invader"
mossad technical operations chief Mo Lester Crest is truly a FORCE to be reckoned with...
LMAOOO thought that too
A Palestinian man had a pager in his pocket, and apparently 'hez bollocks' were blown off! 😂
Thank you for reporting information as news.
Please tell me that the initiation message was "pull my finger".
Mozel Tov
Some have been taken apart by lebenese explosives experts. They encased the battery in petn which is a heat sensitive explosive and then loaded programming that could overheat the battery to cause a detonation.
clever
I would have thought they could just remotely short the Li-ion batteries, causing them to explode. Or “vent violently” like we were told PRC-77 batteries would if shorted.
Your description of the device fits the information that I've read which indicates that there was only 3 grams of explosive in the pagers, but didn't identify they substance. The reports about the pagers getting hot and smoking before detonation now make sense. PETN needs to get to ~140° C to go off. I'm guessing that there are a lot of people who were spared because their batteries weren't fully charged.
@@Wi2Low Could be. But shorting the battery would get it much hotter than normal use or charging would.
where did you read that analysis? It doesn't sound like a reliable detonator.
Israeli is playing chess while Hezbollah is playing Fisher-Price.
The grim beeper...
I’ve got to be honest.
This isn’t just great journalism, but it is damn brilliant detective work, as well.
Great video, Sherlock. 👍😂😄
Hey Abdul, this message will self destruct in 5,4,3,2, BOOM!
Got achemed
I didn't even know anyone still made pagers.
Israel do
They're still used in healthcare, though they are being phased out. No idea how long that's gonna take.
China
@@alexsitaras6508 Probably a lot faster after this when people don't want to be within 20m of any pager.
I thought I was the last person to have one in 2002, crazy!
God bless you, Alex! In a world full of biases it's really hard to find viable sources of information. I'm so glad I found your channel.
This operation should be added to Guinness World Records... With everything going on, remember-your health is your strongest asset. Stay well-informed and take care of yourself..
This channel is awesome 👏🏻 really thank you so much buddy. It’s so nice to be able to trust what is being said. It’s so refreshing.
Aside from all the other incredible and near impossible elements to this attack, I note that the same tampering was done with the 2 way radios, which presumably came from a different source.
I am stunned that, given the events of tuesday with the pagers, that noone in Hezbollah thought about the radios which must, after all, have *also* been purchased in bulk following the same directive to avoid cell phones.
I very much doubt they are tampered with. These will be custom clone Icom IC-V82's that are made to look and operate like the real thing. The pagers were made under brand license. These are almost certainly completely custom devices a capability that Israel almost certainly possesses. Look if you can design and manufacture the Iron Dome missile defense system exploding pagers and walkie-talkies is child's play.
Thanks Alex, good to hear your take on this espionage move of the century, so far.
They took ring ring scheme to a whole new level
When Samsung phones exploded.
Mossad: write that down! Write that down!
Yeah, being biased against terrorists is no bias at all...
We have to define who the real terrorists are
To be fair, by the pure definition of what a terrorist is in the dictionary, pretty much every nation on the planet has been a terrorist country or organization at one time or another, yes, including the US.
There are reports Hezbollah operatives has been ordered to refrain from using electronic devices for the time being. Furthermore, Hezbollah will be using carrier pigeons for communication purposes until further notice.
@@soggybiscotti8425it's traceable.. That's why they stopped using phones.. Osama bin Laden was not using any modern equipment.. That's why it took ages to find him..
@@soggybiscotti8425 They can be tracked and hacked, dude.....
@@soggybiscotti8425did you not watch the video? Israel the U.S. and literally any remotely capable country (even Russia) can monitor cell phones and intercept data
Hassan Nasrallah: "Hello, Apollo technical support, I'd like to report a manufacturing defect". Mossad: "We're sorry for any inconvenience caused, would you like a replacement unit? No? Yahweh Akbar!"
Allah Akbar should be correct.
And Jews would say "adonai"
I was using ground news when my phone blew up. Never using them again smh
Thanks, Alex that was a good report. I didn’t hear any bias. Although I have my own, you were spot on thank you.
EXCELLENT REPORTING!!!
Sounds like a front company
that is what I thought.
This was some Jason Bourne level craziness!!!!!
A sane person would think that Lebanon would stop messing with Israel since every attack has resulted in Lebanon losing territory to Israel.
lebanese are friends of israel... hezb is a cancer in their country it's a satellite state of iran
Your mistake is assuming Hezbollah cares about the territorial boundaries of the Lebanese government. They would prefer the government lose all credibility so they can usurp power.
Although I get how my reply will likely be taken as a put-down, that is not my intent :
Maybe read a book if you hope to achieve anything beyond a simplistic , uninformed perspective. Generally when we don't understand why other groups seem to behave without logic, it indicates we don't understand their position.
Except that Israel is the aggressor
@@annolokihow many missiles has Israel shot into Lebanon this year?
That’s why we love you, Alex. The facts and just the facts.
Dude, you're a national treasure.
Thanks, Alex.
The latest analyses show the supply companies were shell fronts for Israeli operations cloning the devices. The explosives were not alongside the batteries, but actually embedded in them, with the effect of somewhat reducing the mAh capacity and using the lithium as a secondary explosive.
The most meta op in the history of tradecraft…
The planning and execution that went into this. Is just beyond scope.
Stellar reporting and presentation, as always. Thank you, Alex, for being straightforward and factual.
Thanks, Alex. Appreciate your hard and straightforward work.
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Since the carriers of these pagers had likely traveled throughout the Middle East visiting airports train stations, etc.. What kind of explosives could have been used, that would escape detection in places where there are security systems designed to detect explosives?
Are people in non-Israeli Middle Eastern airports and train stations known for their diligent security? Or are they known for corruption and taking bribes?
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If the PETN explosive was carefully packaged inside of sealed plastic, which was carefully cleaned of any PETN residue, then it would be unlikely to be detected. Also, routine security screening generally doesn't include explosives sniffing devices. Most security screening is just x-ray and a cursory glance at devices and other objects in luggage. Within the region, only Israel employs more rigorous security screening for explosives. Even then, they likely wouldn't detect a sealed explosive industrially cleaned.
I don't think most of the security are competent.
Even in US airports they only make you turn on your electronic devices. The only check for explosive residue I've ever seen are swabbing handles of bags. They used to use dogs, but I haven't seen any in ages.
IoET = Internet of Exploding Things
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As someone who had been working in Taiwan's electronic industry for over 10 years...
Let me tell you it is not hard to modify thousands of units of pager.
What's hard is coming up with the module to control and trigger the explosive. That part will take a while to design and test, likely before the shipment even begins.
When you have the proper module designed and tested, you start production on the control module, and explosive integrated battery.
Once the shipment is intercepted, it can be dragged into a warehouse where workshop had been setup.
This part is what we call "reworking", you open the package carefully, remove only what you need, and laid them out in an efficient manner.
Now you open up 5 to 10 units in one go, pop the original battery out, pop in the new control module and explosive+battery back in.
Close it back up, turn on to check, turn off, wipe it clean, and pass it back to someone focused on packing and unpacking.
Similar stuff like this are done all the time when manufacturing faults are found after shipment.
IMHO, those who think this is so hard and need to be done at the OEM factory level... Well, they likely never had any experience in the industry.
Some additional context.
From what i understood of Israel's industry, it is highly likely they will have no difficulty have the control module fully made locally, from off the shelf local and imported components.
The modification of the pager itself do not need anyone that holds clearance to classified information.
All you need is semi skilled electronic assembly worker, tell them you are "improving performance" with the new battery and circuit board module. For the workers, they wouldn't care either way.
Israel found out Hezbollah was looking for a supplier for pagers , so Israel bought up the current supply , modified them with a new operating system and "extra spicy" batteries and then sold them cheap enough to win the contract.
The persons working on this hardware modification may even not know what they are doing.
A4 Batteries are usually in separate packaging and not pre fitted in the device.
Due to safety and corrosion.
Not hard (if you have pre-made components and a prepared facility to do the mod.)
Not hard (if you have enough skilled operatives to actually do the work in question)
Not hard at all.
Very hard (unless you have the raw intelligence to get the sign off for the operation)
Very very hard (unless you already have a facility to do the work in, or for you)
Very very hard (unless those you do the work are very very loyal to you - or - genuinely cannot tell the 'new components' are 'dodgy' - Most people would be able to spot a 'plasticine' type substance wrapped around one of the batteries...)
Secrecy - The people who did the 'work' must be trusted to stay quiet.... the more people, the harder that becomes. The use of civilian workers..... can be problematic.... blackmail, coercion, bribery all work..... until it doesn't. Without being horribly cynical.... I'd start looking/investigating strange warehouse fires ... with casualties...
Why have you gone down this rabbit hole of trying to figure out who supplied these pagers? Who modified these pagers? Does it really matter? The Israelis did it and hats off to them!
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At least one report had Iran supplying the pagers...
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Hezbollah said that they were pointing fingers at Mossad for the explosives and Mossad replied “what fingers?” 😂
😂😂 thats rude ..!
In the long term, both Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli organizations are going to be very mistrustful of modern technology, especially for communications. And that mistrust just might have the bigger impact.
Do you know that pen and paper could explode too?
Having designed POCSAG pagers for Multitone Electronics in London 40 years ago similar in function to the Apollo Gold pagers, it is pretty clear what happened.
The Apollo pagers are rechargeable via a USB C cable so the inside is never exposed for example to replace a battery. All of the pagers received a so called "group call" initiated by Mossad via the Lebanese service provider which would be used to trigger a specific piece of hardware - the pagers are much thicker than conventional display pagers so have plenty of room for a lithium battery plus a detonator and explosive. All the normal functions including vibrate would be preserved to avoid any suspicion and only the manufacturer would know about the special group call.
Having detected the call, the pager circuit would probably use the pager call cancel button to initiate a detonation where the lithium battery was shorted through a resistor to create a sufficiently high temperature to ignite the detonator which then detonated a small explosive charge. Hence the pager warming up prior to the explosion.
What I found most interesting is that some of the news reports I heard regarding this explained what a pager was.