Boom???

Posted on by September 17, 2024

Apparently there were some ‘issues’ with Hezbollah’s secure pagers yesterday…

At least nine people were killed and thousands of others were injured when handheld pagers exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday in an apparent targeting of Hezbollah members, according to Hezbollah officials.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency initially reported that “the handheld pagers system was detonated using advanced technology, and dozens of injuries were reported” in Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas. Lebanon’s health minister later said at least nine people were killed and 2,750 wounded — 200 of them critically.

Among those injured when the pagers exploded included Iran’s ambassador in Lebanon, Iranian state media reported.

Full article, HERE from Fox News.

And there is this reporting from X…

Regardless, that is more than just a little bit of ‘attention getter’. Of course it also pretty well identifies who was Hezbollah and who wasn’t…

However it was done, there are going to be a bunch of nervous people going forward, wondering what is going to blow up next. Their phone? Their computer? Their house?

Terrorists, by their nature what to spread fear among the innocent, but now, that shoe is on the other foot! And good for whomever did it, (yes, I know people are pointing at Israel, but who actually knows)?

It will be interesting to see the response, or lack of one, from not just Hezbollah, but also the other players over there.

Now back to your regularly scheduled BS… 😉

Comments

Boom??? — 30 Comments

  1. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted. If Isreal did accomplish this, it is a brand new ball game. “Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss, come out to pla-i-ay!”

  3. That was an amazing covert op. Hopefully the team that pulled it off – and it had to be a large one – got huge bonuses.

  5. Hey Old NFO,

    Now if they could use it to target the riffraff agitators on our campuses that are paid by Iran and the PRC *Or did I say that out loud…*

  6. Taking 2700+ enemy fighter of the map with 0 friendly losses is quite the coup. It will rank among one of the greatest intelligence operations of all time.

    • Plus the identities of the boomees and their locations are now known.

  7. Ain’t that sumthin….? Testicular explosions my goodness !

  8. Just now seeing reports a second wave may have occurred targeting handheld radios. The gift that keeps on giving…

  9. More important is the knowledge by Hezbollah and terrorists in general that Israel can get them pretty much anytime it chooses.

  11. Next cell phones? If Israel did this they have made everyone that was a person that had these, likely from Iran, fearful of what they get from Iran in the future. Nothing can be trusted in the future.

  12. The biggest benefit besides the physical injury/death to those directly affected is most likely the identification of not only the individual terrorists but also their associates and the network structure. Kind of a big spotlight on those who would rather be in the dark…
    And yes, Mossad is being credited by most, but it might have been other actors who don’t mind Mossad getting the credit.

  14. All- Good points, and yes, today it was the radios…LOL And they do now know ‘exactly’ who are Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria. As usual, the US State Dept ‘leaked’ that Israel did it… sigh

    • Of course State leaked. State is part of the media-academia-government complex that presents an existential threat to freedom and liberty.

    • That’s because State is a Communist viper pit.

      • SOP in my old place of work (before it to went to the Dark Side) was “Treat State like any other hostile third world country.”
        Remember “Button Makers”? One guy made up and handed out buttons that read “Joe was right!” included a photo of Sen. Joe McCarthy.
        Not worn at work … but a lot pinned to cubical walls.

  15. And the next thing was the handy talky radios. One picture I saw showed an ICOM.
    And now I’m hearing talk of solar charging packs going up.

    I am really curious as to what the 2nd and 3rd order effects of this are going to be…

    • One radio went off at a funeral of one killed by a pager.
      Damn near wet myself laughing.

    • There is a parody up on X reporting that Lebanese goats are exploding as explosives placed in their anus detonate when hezbolans go for a relaxing bit of companionship.

  16. Did anybody specifically direct them to put them in their pouches with their courting tackle, or did they enjoy the cheap thrill of the vibration (while it lasted)?