It sounds like the plot of a spy novel but it is very real: Hundreds of pagers exploded on Hezbollah operatives on Tuesday, leaving many of them injured and at least 8 of them dead.
The pagers were distributed from a recent shipment, according to the Wall Street Journal. They were not only pagers but custom made bombs that were detonated at the same time. Hezbollah had not been able to tally up all of the damage yet.
Who would want to do this? Well, considering that Hezbollah exists to end Israel’s oppression of Islamic states, Israel would be a prime suspect. Hezbollah was founded in 1982 after Israel invaded Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah have been at war for decades.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment.” People in Lebanon are told to avoid using pagers. Sources tell Redacted this operation was in the works for many years and was highly sophisticated.
Edward Snowden said this about the attack: “I genuinely hope it’s a supply-chain attack. Because the alternative is simply unthinkable.”
What does he mean? That any of the personal devices any of us carry could be remote detonated by a nefarious power. F word.
