In a case of insane 'creative' irregular warfare thousands of pagers have been exploding in Lebanon simultaneously, targeting Hezbollah fighters. Some 3000 people have been injured and nine others were fatally wounded. Pagers are low tech messaging apps about the size of a cell phone. The New York Times have been reporting that Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon lost an eye and severely injured the other when his pager exploded. He will be repatriated to Tehran for treatment. It is also reported on Hussein Suleimani's X account (link) who is the Editor-in-Chief of the main Revolutionary Guard's news website.
BREAKING NEWS: Al-Jazeera: Raid on Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb means major escalation : AJE correspondent (link).
The recent explosion of thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon has led to a global hunt for the supplier. Two countries, Norway and Bulgaria, have emerged as focal points in this investigation.
But the founder of Norta Global Ltd in Norway declined to comment when asked about the Bulgarian business. Local media reports in Bulgaria identify Norta Global Ltd in Sofia as the possible facilitator of the sale of pagers to Hezbollah. Bulgarian authorities have opened an investigation into the company’s possible ties.
A security source cited by Reuters states that 1.6 million euros related to the transaction passed through Bulgaria and was sent to Hungary. The National Security Agency in Bulgaria has launched an investigation, finding no approval for relevant sales and discovering that the only known transaction involved 1.6 million euros being transferred to Hungary.
One theory suggests that the pagers were intercepted and hooked up with explosives after they left factories. Another theory proposes that Israel orchestrated the whole deadly supply chain.
A Lebanese security source hinted that it’s possible that Mossad created a European company to send the devices to Hezbollah, which believed they were produced in Asia.
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Sep. 19, 2024
EXPLODING PAGERS MAY BE 'NEGOTIATING TACTIC'
UPDATE:
Sep. 19, 2024 Blaze TV: Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Shocking Attack — How Was This Pulled Off?
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Sep. 18, 2024
INSANE CASE OF 'CREATIVE' IRREGULAR WARFARE
UPDATE: Still no confirmation of a 'second wave' of other exploding gadgets. Take that with a sack of salt. Update: there is no reliable source confirming the second wave, but there are reports about exploding walkie-talkies.
Sep. 18, 2024 Alex Christoforou: Lebanon pagers. NATO, Russia red line bluff. US/EU want Ukraine off-ramp. Scholz alone in Kazakhstan.
Lebanese media report a second wave of explosions of communication devices in several locations in southern Lebanon.
There are fires in residential buildings, and vehicles are burning. It is not entirely clear what scope this action has. Cell phones, solar panels, laptops, phones, doorbells, mopeds, and walkie talkies are exploding in a second wave of terrorism.
Taiwan's Gold Apollo pager company issued a statement stating that the pagers carry their trademark, but they were manufactured in Europe. All AP924 Model Pager models were subcontracted to a company BAC Hungary, about 5,000 in that batch to Lebanon (link).
#Israel#BreakingNews CAN ANYTHING AT ALL BE TRUSTED? Explosions again in Lebanon, this time detonating car stereos, solar panels, fingerprint locks and kitchen appliances.
Devices in scooters and cars are catching fire on the move. Already 7 dead and about 150 Lebanese injured… pic.twitter.com/44PbweqcVN
This is deliciously intriguing; it comes from a very well-informed Russian intel source.
So the story goes that the head of MI6 Richard Moore ordered his spooks - in Hungary - to put explosives in the pagers in case Hezbollah got "out of control”.…
Sep. 17, 2024 Agenda Free TV: Hezbollah Pager Explosions - LIVE Updates & New Developments (Breaking News Coverage).
Apparently the Hezbollah fighters have had these pagers for months. Apparently earlier in the year a batch of 5,000 pagers were ordered from tech firm Gold Apollo in Taiwan. Hezbollah is using these low tech pagers in an attempt to avoid Israeli location tracking.
So they were probably remotely detonated at more or less the same time. Now the great question is, who dunnit and above all, how? The obvious culprit is Israel's Mossad spy agency, but no one has confirmed that yet.
The how is another point and the subject of much speculation. Some are saying the implants must have been done at the production level. Or the shipment from Taiwan was intercepted and swapped with gadgets loaded with three grams of explosive material. Or was the Taiwanese tech firm was somehow hacked by the Mossad.
The technical details are beyond my pay grade, but apparently the implants can't be detected. Reuters is reporting that the detonation of 3,000 of the 5,000 pagers occurred when a coded message was received on the pagers.
The exploded pagers were not strictly carried by Hezbollah members.
There are many reported instances of common people including a diplomat in the embassy of Ukraine in Beirut.
Footage of a pager exploding in the pocket of a Hezbollah operative while shopping in Beirut if you haven’t seen it.
Reportedly dozens or even hundreds were injured in simultaneous pager explosions.
As we hear about the pagers in Lebanon that injured more than 2,700 people today, a reminder that one of the things that came out of the @Snowden leaks is that the NSA intercepts packages en route to customers to install malware and surveillance devices. https://t.co/ECuHCVPNNj
I keep thinking about this Top Secret photo from the revelations of mass surveillance back in 2013, revealing how the NSA poisoned commercial shipments in transit (often at airports) to spy on the ultimate recipients. Ten years later, and shipment security never improved. pic.twitter.com/p7hPwXABjT
The world has become much more dangerous for everyone. This was something that was possible, but no one ever dared do it. Now it has been done, Rubicon crossed. Mobile devices weaponized, in batches of thousands, at the supply chain level. pic.twitter.com/6OU6tALC25
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