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.
I believe Snowden. I actually thought this the moment I heard what happened, and it's the only thing that makes sense. I'm sure they can overwhelm the battery. You would only have to know all of their numbers to do it on a mass scale.
This is true, as well.
So like I said, there are two theories.