Were they given loaded pagers? I don't get it.
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There are two theories.
One is that some military grade plastic explosives were loaded into shipments of pagers, given that Hezbollah were quite open about saying they were gunna use them to foil attempts at Mossad tracking their phones. But, one would expect that peeps would have a good look before using, IDK. do people even check their devices before using them?
The other theory is Edward Snowden's: that Israelis had a way of overwhelming the devices (sending lots of messages at once, or something, so that the batteries overheated.
only the explosives theory makes sense. you don't just not notice that your device is hot enough to make tea.
these were new devices that were all recently acquired for the whole group at once. whoever organized that acquisition was either ignorant or complicit. perfect opportunity to make such an attack, and pagers are the perfect delivery system.
Agreed.