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Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation.

The pagers, which Hezbollah had ordered from Gold Apollo in Taiwan, had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon, according to some of the officials. Most were the company’s AP924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment.

The explosive material, as little as one to two ounces, was implanted next to the battery in each pager, two of the officials said. A switch was also embedded that could be triggered remotely to detonate the explosives.

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  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This was such a cool way to kill bad guys. I hope to read more about how they did this like their Stuxnet virus blew up Iranian centrifuges

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        You misunderstand, they’re being sarcastic.

        Ed: to be specific they reference the most famous result of unexpected consequences.

        The US government created a virus managed stucnet that infested and threw off industrial controllers of a specific brand they knew were used with Iranian centrifuges that enrich nuclear material. Their plan worked and the centrifuges were destroyed.

        Later on they found out stuxnet accidently infected a bunch of other controllers, ones that were in hospitals, power plants ect. It ended up being one of the most widespread viruses ever.

        Essentially they’re saying planting bombs in pagers could never have unexpected consequences. /S

        • Count042@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Hezbollah is a government. Which has a large number of civilian members, including doctors that treat people.

          Are the garbage collectors bad guys?