Day 2
Today it’s walkie-talkies. Fourteen dead and 450 injured.
Also, unconfirmed reports of phones, motorcycles, fingerprint machines, solar panels, anything with a modern battery exploding. I wonder. So far, all the hits have been incredibly targeted to senior Hezbollah. All those other things would bring higher risk of unintended victims. This may just be panic made manifest in rumor.
That’s the thing – these explosions have hit and crippled the command structure, not the footsoldiers. Israel now has a snapshot of the whole Hezbollah network, including surprises like Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon.
Some of these guys won’t be coming back, either. There are reports that the pagers beeped for a few minutes before going off. How many of them would have been holding them in their hands and looking into them?
Picture not mine. Stole it off of Twitter. If I knew who made it, I’d give proper credit.
Posted: September 18th, 2024 under politics.
Comments: 11
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Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 18, 2024, 7:23 pm
In case you haven’t, read all about the RAF Pigeon Services. (Scroll to the bottom for a list of the birds who won medals and why).
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: September 18, 2024, 9:07 pm
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: September 18, 2024, 9:25 pm
Someone needs to do a photo of an Israeli soldier holding a couple hunting hawks or falcons.
Which, no surprise, were used to try and hunt down carrier pigeons.
And is it just me, or does that terrorist look like Rowan Atkinson?
Some Veg – love it!
Comment from Ben
Time: September 18, 2024, 10:11 pm
Too bad they can’t use HAM radios…
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: September 18, 2024, 10:23 pm
But WAIT! You get MORE!
Pagers, handy-talkies, and now we’re getting reports from Lebanon that home solar power gadgetry is also going BOOM!
What’s next? Smart toasters?
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: September 18, 2024, 10:53 pm
Exploding high tech Japanese toilets?
Comment from Anonymous
Time: September 19, 2024, 12:01 am
@Durnedyankee — You might find as many as a dozen high tech toilets in Lebanon, maybe even as many as fifteen, and they’d all be in hotels that cater to Asians and Europeans.
— Uncle Al the forgetful
Comment from Crowhouse
Time: September 19, 2024, 3:27 am
Breaches the Geneva Convention, so a war crime.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: September 19, 2024, 9:30 am
Headsblownoff isn’t a signatory to the conventions.
Nor are they a “sovereign state”.
Next time they rocket attack someone from a school yard do be sure you mark it down as a war crime.
Comment from Anonymous
Time: September 19, 2024, 3:12 pm
Crowhouse – just curious – I know very little of the Geneva Convention beyond the basics.
Disregarding that the rules are only applicable to uniformed combatants of an organized state, what part of the conventions would this violate? The pagers/ walkie-talkies were intended for use by combatants- not aimed indiscriminately?
Thanks for educating me.
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