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[–] danc4498 114 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, this exploding pagers story has to be one of the craziest things that happened IRL. If you put this in a movie I would say it jumped the shark at that point.

[–] ChicoSuave 60 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The exploding walkie talkies as the follow up was really too much.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly it’s so fascinating if you can step aside how heinous an act it is. However many “bad guys” they wanted to kill I don’t think the collateral damage is acceptable.

Like I want to know the details of how they breached the supply chain, how they knew who would have any given pager, how they switched up to walkie talkies.

For all the evil that mossad commit you can’t deny they’ve got skills, but I guess with unlimited money and a warped ideology anything is possible.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The boring answer is that Mossad probably were the ones who convinced Hezbollah to move to pagers in the first place, likely through double agents, and likely also controlled the supply chain from the beginning. They probably also didn't actually care about who specifically had a pager, and just made sure they were distributed thoroughly within Hezbollah.

[–] FinalRemix 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They were reportedly tracking movement via cell phones, so it was kind of "natural" to move to other comm channels, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Supposedly Mossad just built up factories also building non-exploding devices, and just included the extras on specific orders - so I guess they checked for each order if the guy ordering had "Hesbollah head of sourcing" in his linkedin profile, or something like that.

[–] deus 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you believe your comment was how I found out that happened? I thought it was just a joke at first, like something so absurd that could only happen in a comedy movie.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

NCD leads the world in important breaking news... and plane pornography.

[–] Streetlights 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Airpods next? Anything is credible right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

exploding vibrators could be exciting

[–] Anticorp 17 points 2 months ago

Maybe Kingsmen wasn't so far fetched after all.