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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: Exploding pagers
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:07:33 -0700
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:26:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:48:01 -0400, bitrex wrote:
>
>> On 9/18/2024 4:01 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
>>> Am 18.09.24 um 20:08 schrieb john larkin:
>>>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:30:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Talking with Israel never achieved anything. They don't compromise on
>>>>> anything. As for the murdering savages, the pager business is clearly
>>>>> state-backed terrorism AFAICS.
>>>>
>>>> Not terrorism. Targeted attacks on specific enemies.
>>> 
>>> Like the 8 year old girl and the other kid among the first dozen of
>>> deaths yesterday.
>>> 
>>> But that has tradition. King Saul's genozide of the Amalekitans left to
>>> be desired because of its imperfection. He left their King alive and
>>> some extra pretty goats. The Amalekitans really did not like to hand
>>> over their land to the Israelites who invaded from Egypt / Sinai.
>>> Sounds familiar? Even Nethanyahu talks as of last year?
>>> That imperfection was King Saul's ticket to replacement. King David
>>> promised > 100% performance, at least. No one left to complain.
>>> They still meet under his flag.
>>> 
>>> You as a south state / Irish bible thumper will have no problem to look
>>> it up. Take Book Samuel as a starting point.
>>> 
>>> Gerhard
>>> 
>>> 
>> It was a high-risk operation with a very high probability of discovery
>> and humiliation for the perpetrators.
>> 
>> Media explanation: The Mossad has super powers, was planning and
>> organizing this for months, and nailed hundreds of high-ranking
>> terrorists with exacting precision, all of whom were too stupid to know
>> anything was amiss.
>> 
>> Realistic explanation: They shipped in a bunch of them in a hurry, doled
>> them out in a hurry to just about whomever wanted one, and popped
>> whomever was unfortunate enough to get their hands on one within about
>> two weeks.
>
>Thank god one of them didn't go off in an airliner with Europeans on board 
>at the time. That could so easily have happened. Hopefully the airlines' 
>explosive sniffers would have detected them. If they cannot, they'll have 
>to do something *quick* to improve security measures to ensure it can't 
>happen going forward.

It was probably detonated by some special message, and wouldn't have
worked on a plane.