My goodness!
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In my view is a huge hurdle to manufacture pagers with explosives and get them just to the terrorists. Same with “loaded” batteries. Getting the “loaded” batteries and replacing good ones in just the ones going to the terrorists 2800-3000 specific pagers and not to the general public is an almost impossible task. Makes more sense to make the real batteries explode with a call to already known phone numbers with some unknown tech. Just sayin
Well, not necessarily so. A production line could be stopped briefly to produce an order of 3000 pagers with a special XYZ battery type instead of the usual ABC battery - limiting factor: run out batteries, and that lot gets sent to the specific customer.
However, I'm more likely to believe that the pagers were sent from Taiwan to (Ukraine?) and sat in a warehouse for a few days where the batteries were swapped out, and then shipped to Iran/Syria/Lebanon.
Good point.
I have read that the pagers were bought in bulk after the decision to scrap cells. It's possible the walkie talkies were bought in bulk too, and Israel intel intercepted the shipments. Lower per unit pricing.
If these were picked up randomly at an Allah Walmart or Jihad Dollar General, that'd be a different story.
Yep. It "makes more sense" to do something impossible. Got it. Nobody here is talking about replacing a plastic structural element of the cell phone with actual explosive material.
Just now hearing that now the groups walkie talkie's are exploding. This is an act to decapitate the groups communicating ability. It certainly outs those with devices as a supporter of the group.
Worse than "outs" them, I gather. Puts them out of action, if not out of this world.