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2024-09-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
500 Hezbollah members reportedly had their eyes blown out of their heads in the pager bombings.
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Posted by Fred 2024-09-18 2024-09-18 02:53|| || Front Page|| [11153 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 2024-09-18 03:10||   2024-09-18 03:10|| Front Page 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 2024-09-18 03:37||   2024-09-18 03:37|| Front Page 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 2024-09-18 05:59||   2024-09-18 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Where do Obamaphones come from again?
Posted by CrazyFool in Texas 2024-09-18 07:38||   2024-09-18 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Hezbollah just changed its name to Heznoballs.
Posted by European Conservative 2024-09-18 08:01||   2024-09-18 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Why WERE Hezbollah using 80s-style pagers before Tuesday's attack?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-18 08:16||   2024-09-18 08:16|| Front Page 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 2024-09-18 08:59||   2024-09-18 08:59|| Front Page Top

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

Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Withholding Weapons from Israel
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-18 09:36||   2024-09-18 09:36|| Front Page 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 2024-09-18 12:41||   2024-09-18 12:41|| Front Page 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 2024-09-18 12:54||   2024-09-18 12:54|| Front Page Top

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

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

#13 If Trump is not sworn in in January:

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-18 14:32||   2024-09-18 14:32|| Front Page Top

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

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

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

#17 "Hello, remoto."
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-18 18:01||   2024-09-18 18:01|| Front Page Top

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