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Hillary Clinton Demands 'Criminal
Penalties' for Americans to Deter 'Misinformation'
Wednesday 09/18/2024

Ann Savage_v1qbbjxvo1_400
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russo-Chinese Arctic war games spur US response as Alaska officials warn only strength can deter crisis
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gold Apollo denies ties to explosive
pagers used by Hezbollah, says BAC produces them
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Just for laffs... Guy in the lower right hand corner.
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
500 Hezbollah members reportedly had their
eyes blown out of their heads in the pager bombings.
Africa North
Libya Boosts Economic Cooperation with 18 Chinese Companies
Africa North
Situation under control following
Bamako attack by al-Qaida affiliate
Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr, and Larry
Elder React to Second Trump Shooting

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2024 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Toronto man arrested in Seattle after threatening to bomb Sen Patty Murray's car
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A Canadian man was arrested in Seattle last week for targeting Senator Patty Murray
... Senator-for-life (D) from Washington state, reputedly not the sharpest intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. To hear Patty tell it, if we'd built roads and bridges like Osama bin Laden had 9-11 never would have happened...
(D-WA) on social media with bomb threats.

According to court documents obtained by KOMO News, 29-year-old Louis Bernabe flew from Toronto to Seattle and booked a room at the W Hotel, which is located approximately three blocks from Murray's office.

Bernabe does not have a residence or employment in the Seattle area and it remains unclear when he arrived in the Emerald City.

On September 10, Bernabe posted a threat to bomb Murray's car on social media that said, ''Senator Murray @senpattymurray, I am warning you ONCE AND FOR ALL. Quit your trashy play of partisan nonsense AT ONCE, or I swear to God, I WILL have you check the undercarriage of your car every single day to ensure you don't get BLOWN UP to pieces. The people of this county have had it with the nonproductive crap from both sides. I have not seen my girlfriend in FIVE YEARS. We have the right to be in couple and reproduce if we choose to. If you deny us this right, you are nothing more than a nasty animal. In this case, I will condone whoever decides to put you down. Rabid creatures should be put to death.''
Sounds reasonable
The following day, Bernabe, who has no criminal history or past convictions, went to Murray's Seattle office and asked her staff how to meet her. He then posted a selfie standing on the floor where Murray's office is located. He also posted a picture of a Heckler & Koch UMP submachine gun.

According to court documents, Bernabe was booked into the King County jail for two counts of making bomb threats and felony harassment. He was originally held on $50,000 bail before it was increased to $250,000.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:

#1  HA! HA!

Jokes on him. Patty 'The Mother in Jackboots' Murray only visits Seattle for fundraisers.

The rest of the time she's in D.C. with who she truely represents - the DNC.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 09/18/2024 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Did he threaten to give her a pager?
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/18/2024 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I though cash bail was fundamentally unfair...or something of the sort?

Also, this guy has a "girlfriend" he hasn't seen in five years? Did he meet her at Niagara Falls?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/18/2024 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  ed in texas the new Buzz Bomb.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/18/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Hmph. He has problems closer to home he could deal with, don't need any more crazies here.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/18/2024 13:51 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Trans-Identifying 19-Year-Old Arrested After Expressing Desire To Shoot Up Elementary School
[DailyWire] The surprise is someone showed the balls to speak up. Bravo!
Iowa police arrested a trans-identifying 19-year-old on Monday and charged her with a "threat of terrorism" after she revealed in therapy that she wanted to shoot up an elementary school, The Daily Wire has learned.

The Norwalk Police Department announced Monday that it had arrested Margaret Anderson after being made aware last week of a "potential threat" to Oviatt Elementary School, located in Norwalk, Iowa. In a release, the department said that Anderson has been charged with a "Threat of Terrorism" under Iowa Code 708A.5, and had been processed into the Warren County Jail.

Anderson is a 19-year-old female who identifies as a transgender man, Warren County Attorney Doug Eichholz confirmed to The Daily Wire on Tuesday. The police department said on Monday that Margaret also went by Maxwell, raising initial suspicions that gender identity was at play in the case.

Eichholz said that the case arose out of statements that Anderson made to her therapist during the course of her "regular treatment." The therapist then reported the statements to the Des Moines Police Department, he said, which forwarded the information to the Norwalk Police Department in her hometown.

"And then the investigation took off from there," he explained.

According to Eichholz, the complaint about Anderson says: "The defendant stated that she had thoughts that she wanted to take a gun to Oviatt Elementary School in Norwalk, at 11 am through the cafeteria, and shoot children."

The complaint did not contain context as to why Anderson was motivated to shoot children, the Warren County Attorney said. He noted that after Anderson shared these thoughts, she was immediately entered into Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, which has a mental health facility attached. She was then arrested on Monday, Eichholz said, released Tuesday morning to house arrest with restrictions including a GPS bracelet, and is currently on pretrial release.

Shawn Holloway, superintendent of Norwalk Community School District, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NOTE TO LIBERALS
Given all the well documented history concerning the deadly nature of the Transgenderism Mental Illness.

Because any school has students of both Liberal and Normal. That means your political group is just as much at threat.

So isn't it time to get off the deadly social media driven Bus, and get these freaks treated for their mental illness? Before more are killed and harmed?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/18/2024 6:11 Comments || Top||

#2  So, statements made to your therapist during treatment can get you arrested, but statements make in public don't.
Does anybody else see the problem here?
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/18/2024 9:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Doctor patient confidentiality went out with Obamacare.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/18/2024 10:28 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Situation under control following Bamako attack by al-Qaida affiliate
[AFRICANEWS] Mali's capital sustained early Tuesday (Sep. 17) a terrorist attack carried by al-Quaida affiliate group JNIM.
That’s the Al Qaeda in the Sahel group that in Arabic is called JNIM and in French is GSIM. Recent estimates of its size range from 2,000-6,000 turbans.
Citing a security official, AP reported that both the Faladi gendarme school and the military base near the Modibo Keita Senou airport were targetted.

Later in the day, the situation was under control and the army chief of staff visited the camp where he urged to fight division and amalgams

''I'm telling the Malian people that this attack was done on purpose. and that we're all Malians and we mustn't let people pit us against each other, so we must avoid amalgams.''

General Oumar Diarra also called on the residents to provide information to the authorities: "I'm asking the population to provide information. I think their support has been very substantial, allowing us to pick up suspects here and there. The investigations are ongoing."

"All the terrorists" who raided the school were " neutralized".

Students were killed as well as soldiers, a statement read on national broadcaster ORTM 1 said.

Speaking on condition of anonimity to AP, an official confirmed ''material damage,'' was also recorded but did not provided specifics.

At least 15 suspects were arrested, the source added.

The JNIM Death Eater group released a video which it says shows fighters setting fire on a presidential plane and pavilion near the airport in Bamako.

The army said that it was conducting a security sweep after fighting off button men.

This is the first attack in Bamako in years as terror groups seek to heap pressure on Mali's military.

Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2024 02:39 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Radical suspected of financing terrorism detained in Moscow
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Moscow, security forces detained a man who holds radical religious views and is suspected of financing terrorism. This was reported on September 17 by the press service of the FSB Directorate for the city of Moscow and the Moscow Region.

“The UFSB of Russia for the city of Moscow and the Moscow region, in cooperation with the UFSB of Russia for the Yaroslavl region, stopped the activity of an adherent of radical religious views involved in the financing of an international terrorist organization, the activities of which are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the press service of the UFSB stated.

The investigation established that the suspect transferred money to a person against whom criminal cases had previously been opened for assisting a terrorist organization and participating in it.

A criminal case has been opened against the detainee under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Assistance to terrorist activity”). The defendant has been arrested.

Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel has blown up thousands of personal radios which were used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon
[Telegram]

From Grom’s link in comments, added for future searchability:
Several explosions were reported Wednesday afternoon in the Dahieh area of Beirut,
…Hezbollah’s bedroom community, until recently assumed to be protected from
Israeli attacks by the dense civilian population…
Lebanon, as exploding hand-held radios killed at least five people and injured approximately 500. Lebanon's state news agency reported that three people were killed in Beqaa.

According to Sky News Arabic, the explosions took place during the funeral for Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese MP Ali Ammar's son, who was killed when his beeper exploded on Tuesday.

The explosions occurred in multiple locations, including in private homes, the reports added. Injuries were reported in Dahieh, Ghaziyeh, and Al-Sarafand in southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Al-Hadath reported that 19 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed in the beeper explosions on Tuesday, and 150 were injured. Tehran has denied the reports. According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, approximately 3,000 people were injured in the explosions, and 12 were killed.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2024 10:52 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  All sorts of radios and some other machines are blowing up today.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2024 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Causes of explosions in Lebanon today:

Pagers
Walkie-talkie radios
Fingerprint machines
Solar energy systems
Cell phones
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2024 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably better to put vibrators away as well ;-)
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/18/2024 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this a cunning plan or just the result of bad Chinese manufacturing? As they say, too much chinesium spoils the stew.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/18/2024 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  EC you made me spew coffee out my nose.

I needed a good laugh
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2024 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like the cell phone one isn't correct. An older photo of one is being circulated as part of the current attack.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2024 11:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Beeper explosions, round 2: Multiple explosions during funeral of Hezbollah MP's son

Asharq Al-Awsat reported that "hundreds" were wounded in the second wave, many of them in their stomachs and hands.

...Following the explosions, Hezbollah terrorists in Syria have been instructed to turn off all of their communications devices, Arab media reported.

A Sky News reporter attending one of the funerals said that Hezbollah terrorists are now throwing away both their phones' and their communications devices' batteries.

Reports soon said that the second "wave" of explosions affected thousands of military communications devices, which exploded within minutes of each other across Lebanon. This system is an alternate system, used following Tuesday's explosions.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Prepping the battlefield?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/18/2024 11:58 Comments || Top||


#10  So when do the electric cars start exploding like they already do on the streets of China?
Same for scooters
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2024 12:48 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm thinking bomb and receiver built into the batteries
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Is that really a Duracell?
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2024 12:56 Comments || Top||

#13  Apparently even the Arab World is laughing at this!

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/18/2024 12:58 Comments || Top||

#14  even the Arab World is laughing

Sure. As Iranians proudly point out, they are Persians, not Arabs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#15  ...Following the explosions, Hezbollah terrorists in Syria have been instructed to turn off all of their communications devices, Arab media reported.

Mission accomplished
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/18/2024 13:21 Comments || Top||

#16  They already got a scooter.

Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2024 13:22 Comments || Top||

#17  Please tell me that they're not Baofeng. I have a couple of those.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/18/2024 13:23 Comments || Top||

#18  Explosions heard at pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces HQ in Mosul - report
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 13:33 Comments || Top||

#19  UN rights chief calls for investigation into Middle East pager explosions
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into the events surrounding exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people in Syria and Lebanon.

The simultaneous targeting of thousands of individuals, without knowing who held the devices or their location violated international human rights law and possibly international humanitarian law, Turk said in a statement.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 13:35 Comments || Top||

#20  Kind of makes the people worried that the Chyna EVs could be used to create a mass chaos not look as kookie.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2024 13:46 Comments || Top||

#21 
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 14:05 Comments || Top||

#22 
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 14:08 Comments || Top||

#23  When the war starts, no Hezbollah will be carrying anything electronic.
Posted by: Angstrom || 09/18/2024 14:42 Comments || Top||

#24 
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 15:03 Comments || Top||

#25  From former rantburg.com moderator ryuge:

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Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 15:42 Comments || Top||

#36  ^Well, that'll be illegal in California, right?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2024 16:08 Comments || Top||

#37 
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 16:21 Comments || Top||

#38  #19 UN rights chief calls for investigation into Middle East pager explosions

"In the firelit Mohammedan murk,
Dire dilemmas for Zionists lurk,
Like, er, whether to take
The advice of a snake!"
- Österreichischer jerk Volker Turk
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 09/18/2024 18:19 Comments || Top||

#39  #32 is SPOT ON!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/18/2024 18:49 Comments || Top||

#40  Go ryuge!

I think my favourite so far is

Israeli Chief of Staff on Lebanon attacks: "We still have many capabilities,at every stage we operate we are already 2 stages ahead. At every stage the price in Hezbollah should be high.We will make it so that terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet & even eating food."

Though all the rest are wonderful, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2024 18:59 Comments || Top||

#41  "We will make it so that terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet & even eating food."

I eagerly look forward to the first exploding toilet story.

As Mahmood sat down to poo,
He heard a curious sound in the loo.
"Whatever's that ticking?"
"Them Juice they be tricking?"
Then his carcass kaboomed up the flue.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/18/2024 19:13 Comments || Top||

#42  # 35, bravo.
Posted by: Jack Salami || 09/18/2024 19:19 Comments || Top||

#43  #16 Now that is what I call a crotch rocket!
Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 || 09/18/2024 19:53 Comments || Top||

#44  The Mohammedan's Modern Commode,
Or, "Your plumbing is now up to code."

"Bottom comfortably warm,
I can come to no harm!"
"Till we send the command to explode."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 09/18/2024 20:42 Comments || Top||

#45 
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2024 23:48 Comments || Top||


Just for laffs... Guy in the lower right hand corner.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Wait until the couriers start exploding!
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2024 2024-09-18 03:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  I want Mr. Blue Shirt for my ring tone.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 09/18/2024 3:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Pager explosions killed 19 IRGC members in Syria - report
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  That's pronounced "Owwie!"
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/18/2024 9:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Bottom-right some sort of food market?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2024 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Was is halal?
Posted by: mossomo || 09/18/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#6  swksvolFF, it looks like a green grocer to me, but perhaps they sell other things inside.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2024 14:30 Comments || Top||

#7  ^5

'Halal' means permitted (typically regarding food but also other things)

the antonym is 'Haram' which means forbidden.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/18/2024 14:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Pretty well stocked.
I was told there is no food in Gaza, so he must be simultaneously in and not in Lebanon.
Schrodinger's Rat.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2024 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Harambe means 'don't eat our zoo animals.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Schrodinger's Brat Summer.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2024 16:40 Comments || Top||


500 Hezbollah members reportedly had their eyes blown out of their heads in the pager bombings.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2024 2024-09-18 02:53 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  from open source intel on X:
Operation Beeper Stats:

- 4,000 Hezbollah terrorists injured
- 400 Seriously injured
- 11 Terrorists eliminated
- 500 lost their eyesight
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2024 3:10 Comments || Top||

#2  also on X:
The Taiwanese-Based Pager Company, Gold Apollo has stated that the production the of 5,000 Pagers that were Imported to Lebanon and eventually provided to Hezbollah, mainly the AP924 Model Pager, were Subcontracted to a Company in Europe.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2024 3:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Note:
According to various sources.
The pagers were imported 5 or 6 months ago.
The pager battery contained 20+/-grams of PETN explosives.

Naturally, the Mossad is blamed for allegedly planting the Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, (PETN) on the pager batteries, and calling specific pagers to detonate it by increasing the pager temp.

This could possibly mean certain Intel groups know certain terrorist names, ship to addresses & IMEI / #'s.

Which could suggest, the ability of 24/7 real time tracking of certain terrorists.

SIDE THOUGHT
Imagine, if Iran/Russia/China undertook a similar operation and the targets were certain elected US officials via their congressional or newly issued smartphones.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/18/2024 5:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Where do Obamaphones come from again?
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 09/18/2024 7:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Hezbollah just changed its name to Heznoballs.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/18/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Why WERE Hezbollah using 80s-style pagers before Tuesday's attack?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm being capt obvious but isreal had all their beeper numbers so I would assume their communications weren't secure.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 09/18/2024 8:59 Comments || Top||

#8  So that's what you get when you do this...

Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Withholding Weapons from Israel
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/18/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||

#9  CTH Israeli poster from Israeli has more local news reporting summary:
"David
September 18, 2024 1:41 am
Hezbollah pager operation casualty update:
– 4,000 Hezbollah Terrorists injured.
– 400 in critical condition.
– 18 High-Ranking commanders injured.
– 500 plus lost their eyesight
– 11 Hezbollah Terrorists dead.
Lebanon later changed the numbers to 2750 injured and 9 killed. I suspect that the original report above is correct but in any case it was massive.
Numbers from Syria are not known yet. This is the biggest blow to hezbollah since it was founded

And imagine the paranoia of all communication devices, and subsequent breakdown of communication.

Mossad managed to somehow replace the beepers which came from Europe. There were some 20g of explosives and a kill switch. The Mossad sent a fake message that appeared to be from Command of Hezbollah, then a delay and a boom.

While it was incredible there is a huge waste of opportunity to take advantage and follow with an invasion. It would have saved lives of soldiers. Attack with the element of surprise and the chaos of this cyber attack. This is Bibi afraid of the Biden Administration. Now we are into waiting for the upcoming revenge.
Or maybe there is more to follow ?
PS. A new report says that Israel was afraid that the beepers will be exposed and therefore didn’t want to wait any longer.
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1836035130416124390 "
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/18/2024 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  ^^^^
Follow-on post from the same source
"David
September 18, 2024 8:37 am
Israel Update:

-Following the Beeper attack there is a report that Hezbollah was close to exposing the plot which caused a premature use of the beeper attack.

-As I reported before it turns out to be true. A senior IDF Commander hints that the hold up is because the US is very strongly against a menouver into Lebanon and we need back up when it happens, munitions, etc…

-Important: The IDF is moving Division 98 from Gaza to the North border with Lebanon.
Div 98 are the best that we have with the Commando Brigade as part of it with some of the most elite units of the IDF. They crushed the strongest Brigade of Hamas in Khan Yunis and were also in Rafah. This means that it’s getting serious at the North."
https://youtu.be/Q_1jspTbZ_o
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/18/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  European Conservative I'm glad I had put my coffee cup down before I read that.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/18/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#12  I assume Mossad is keeping all those pictures for future reference.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/18/2024 13:54 Comments || Top||

#13  If Trump is not sworn in in January:

Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2024 14:32 Comments || Top||

#14  /\ Who certifies the election with Harris as the defeated candidate and VP ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/18/2024 14:36 Comments || Top||

#15  ^Perhaps they haven' thought about that yet, but they will.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2024 14:54 Comments || Top||

#16  Giving new meaning to the old ATT jingle - reach out, reach out an touch someone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/18/2024 17:40 Comments || Top||

#17  "Hello, remoto."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/18/2024 18:01 Comments || Top||


DW has a great discussion in this video about the exploding pagers
[YouTube] Lebanese officials say at least 9 people were killed and nearly 2800 injured when pagers used by the Hezbollah militant group exploded simultaneously across the country.
Fourteen minutes long.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  ^To me there's another argument - Mossad may intercept shipments, they don't have personnel to open 5000 pagers, insert explosives and close them in untraceable fashion.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  My understanding is the pagers were actually made in Hungary-not a particularly supporting nation for Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran or Radical Islamists!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/18/2024 14:44 Comments || Top||

#4  If I were a betting man:



For example, Starlink’s high-speed data links could stream real-time video footage from drones or other crewless aerial vehicles, allowing military commanders to make more informed decisions on the battlefield – live.

One of the main advantages of Starlink in a war scenario is its ability to provide a reliable and resilient communications network. In traditional warfare, enemy forces can easily disrupt terrestrial communication networks such as telephone lines and cellular networks.

However, with Starlink, communication can be maintained even if traditional networks are destroyed or rendered inoperable. This is because Starlink operates in space, outside the reach of ground-based weapons and other forms of interference.


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Eight killed, 2,750 wounded in pager detonations across Lebanon, says health minister
[GEO.TV] Eight people were killed and almost 2,750 wounded - 200 of them critically - in a spree of simultaneous detonations of pagers across Lebanon, Health Minister Firass Abiad said on Tuesday, reported Al Jazeera.

HEZBOLLAH MEMBER'S SON KILLED AMONG FIGHTERS IN EXPLOSION
Hezbollah confirmed in a statement the deaths of at least three people, including two of its fighters. The third person killed was a girl, it said, adding that an investigation was being conducted into the causes of the blasts.

One of the fighters killed was the son of a Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, two security sources told Reuters.

Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, suffered a minor injury when a pager exploded, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.

"Amani has a superficial injury and is currently under observation in a hospital," Fars quoted a source as saying.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.

The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.

IRAN'S AMBASSADOR TO LEBANON INJURED BY PAGER EXPLOSION
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was slightly injured on Tuesday by the explosion of an electronic pager, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, as numerous such devices exploded across Lebanon.

"Amani has a superficial injury and is currently under observation in a hospital," Fars quoted a source as saying.

LEBANON'S HEZBOLLAH CHIEF NASRALLAH WAS NOT HARMED IN BLASTS,
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was not harmed in the spree of pager blasts across Lebanon, a senior Hezbollah source told Reuters on Tuesday.

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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Snowden suggests pagers that exploded in Lebanon contained explosives
The mass detonation of pagers in various areas of Lebanon could have been connected with the operation of explosive devices. Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden made this assumption on September 17.

"As more information comes in about exploding pagers in Lebanon, it now seems more likely that it was planted explosives rather than a hack," Snowden wrote on his X social media page.

According to him, this version of what happened is indicated by the large number of corresponding injuries, while in the case of hacking devices one would expect minor fires and misfires.

Snowden added that the detonation of pagers, which he believes was organized by Israel, regardless of the circumstances, is a reckless move indistinguishable from terrorism.

As reported by Regnum news agency, on September 17, pagers began to explode en masse in Lebanon. According to the country's Ministry of Health, eight people died from the detonations, including an eight-year-old child, and 2,800 residents were injured, 200 of whom are in serious condition. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was also injured in the explosion of his personal pager. He was sent to the hospital with minor injuries. Two employees of the Iranian embassy in Beirut were also injured.

Lebanon's Information Minister Zayad Makari issued a statement blaming Israel for the mass explosions of pagers. According to him, the initial investigation data confirms Tel Aviv's involvement.

Even more from regnum.ru
Netanyahu Accused of Involvement in Lebanon Pager Detonation
The operation to detonate pagers in Lebanon was agreed upon by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting with members of the cabinet. This was reported on September 17 by the Axios portal,citing sources.

"The operation was approved earlier this week during security meetings attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, senior cabinet members and intelligence chiefs," the statement said.

According to the information, the Israeli operation is aimed at moving the fight against the Hezbollah movement into a new phase, while trying not to provoke a full-scale war.

It is noted that the mass explosions of pagers began to occur a day after the visit of US Special Representative for Lebanon Amos Hochstein to Israel, during which he warned Netanyahu about the risks and consequences of escalation in Lebanon.

Later, Lebanese Information Minister Zayad Makari stated that responsibility for the mass explosions of pagers lies with Israel, and that initial investigation data confirms Tel Aviv's involvement in the incident.

According to the Israeli publication Haaretz, Hezbollah is planning to launch a military operation against Israel after a series of explosions of pagers belonging to its members. It is noted that the Israeli authorities are considering several options regarding retaliatory measures against Hezbollah's actions.

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#2  Wait till they find out about their YouTube subscriptions.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/18/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  What were children doing with Hezbollah pagers? Scouts or trainees?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/18/2024 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  There does not exist a report out of Lebanon or Gaza where some event led to the death of children (always) or a pregnant woman (occasional).
Posted by: S MAI || 09/18/2024 14:09 Comments || Top||

#5  What were children doing with Hezbollah pagers? Scouts or trainees?

Cuddling in Gramps’ lap when the phone device rang.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2024 14:12 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 What were children doing with Hezbollah pagers? Scouts or trainees?

Muslim fighters will occasionally use children as scouts.
Posted by: badanov || 09/18/2024 14:19 Comments || Top||

#7  ^"Children" = under 18.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/18/2024 14:28 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ with Obamacare that could be 24 or illegal immigrant of any age.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/18/2024 17:41 Comments || Top||



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