RatkoVarda Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 17 Author Share Posted September 17 un-freaking-believable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 17 Author Share Posted September 17 50 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said: Now why would the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? OK, I admit, dumb question. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongbit Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 I suspect there will be a lot of twigs with no berries in Lebanon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted September 17 Share Posted September 17 I know it’s no longer 1999, but note to self: never strap a pager to my belt ever again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 That some legit James Bond shït right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 I’m really curious how pagers could be hacked to explode. Wild stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Either planted with something to explote based on a message, or hacked to overheat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongbit Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 The true story of how the operation went down will be closely held. The story of Stuxnet finally came out so eventually this will as well. For now, anyone that comes out with the details is either making things up for clicks or has been trolled believing someone making things up for clicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hongbit Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Now everything with a lithium battery is blowing up around Beirut. Solar Panels, Smart Appliances, Car and Scooter batteries all going poof. This is possibly the greatest counter-terrorism operation of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 The downside is people can now believe in Jewish space lasers. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edman85 Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, Hongbit said: Now everything with a lithium battery is blowing up around Beirut. Solar Panels, Smart Appliances, Car and Scooter batteries all going poof. This is possibly the greatest counter-terrorism operation of all time. It is pretty remarkable. It’s Like …. a good spy movie script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Hope nobody figures out how to do it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Mayhem Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 *bzzzzzt*. Ahhhhh! Durka! Durka! Durka! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 6 hours ago, Motown Bombers said: The downside is people can now believe in Jewish space lasers. Well, alternatively... Maybe that will give a few ****heads pause, the next time they are considering terrorism... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 18 Author Share Posted September 18 5 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: Well, alternatively... Maybe that will give a few ****heads pause, the next time they are considering terrorism... IDK - Terrorism is already irrational. Has any terrorist organization ever achieved it ambitions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: IDK - Terrorism is already irrational. Has any terrorist organization ever achieved it ambitions? and too many people in that world are sympathetic to their suffering. There's a fundraiser in Dearborn at the giant Mosque for the victims. I get that innocent people died in this. That's tragic. But those people aren't the only ones this fundraiser is for. They see the members of hezbollah as victims too. They'll always have cheerleaders because.... Israel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 12 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: IDK - Terrorism is already irrational. Has any terrorist organization ever achieved it ambitions? Lenin and Hitler did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 19 Author Share Posted September 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, romad1 said: Lenin and Hitler did. OK grant in a way but I'll defend a more specific syntax. As leaders, Hilter and Stalin were using terror as a lever of state power, which by definition I'll grant is a form of terrorism, but in conventional parlance I think most people would take 'terrorism' to mean the program of non-state actors and that is certainly what I meant to refer to. Terror by established government terror is more conventional tyranny? Now before they came to power? There was Krystallnacht and few other events IIRC, but TBF Hilter rose to power primarily by the conventional political process and the Bolsheviks fought an actual armed revolution so terror maybe a piece there also but to a larger 'conventional' movement. Edited September 19 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 51 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: OK grant in a way but I'll defend a more specific syntax. As leaders, Hilter and Stalin were using terror as a lever of state power, which by definition I'll grant is a form of terrorism, but in conventional parlance I think most people would take 'terrorism' to mean the program of non-state actors and that is certainly what I meant to refer to. Terror by established government terror is more conventional tyranny? Now before they came to power? There was Krystallnacht and few other events IIRC, but TBF Hilter rose to power primarily by the conventional political process and the Bolsheviks fought an actual armed revolution so terror maybe a piece there also but to a larger 'conventional' movement. hold on... Leninism is specifically the model that terrorists are following as they try to create chaos so as to enable the revolution. It was clearly the model followed in the rise to power. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 19 Author Share Posted September 19 4 hours ago, romad1 said: hold on... Leninism is specifically the model that terrorists are following as they try to create chaos so as to enable the revolution. It was clearly the model followed in the rise to power. well, I suppose that since the Tsar already had his own terrorist secret police, it was/is sort of endemic in Russian history! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben9753 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Israel took down another scumbag in Beirut. Seems like they have no more ****s to give, and will do whatever it takes to ensure their safety. If you're on their naughty list, you can't be sleeping very well at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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