__alexs 3 days ago

It seems somewhat plausible that Israel somehow managed to sabotage a pallet of pagers they knew were going to be distributed to people involved terrorism. If so the number of bystanders injured might be relatively low and the number of legitimate targets injured or killed could be quite high.

Having said that it also seems quite plausible that Israel just knew that some particular brand of pagers in some region of Lebanon was used by their targets, and so they just sabotaged thousands of them in the vague hope that they would get a hit.

I suspect we will never get enough info about how this attack was carried out to know.

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bluescrn 3 days ago

Seems much more precisely targeted than rocket attacks.

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  • __alexs 3 days ago

    We know absolutely zero about how the pagers were distributed.

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    • frabbit 3 days ago

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      • aguaviva 3 days ago

        Prejudice, no. It is entirely reasonable to suspect that Israel is the likely culprit behind this. Everything from the attack vector to the intentional disregard for massive civilian casualties would seem to showcase its signature style, in fact.

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      • minkles 3 days ago

        I would wait for confirmation on even those things before placing any trust on it. There is a lot of noise and misreporting at the start of a story like this because all parties involved want to set a political agenda which is convenient. The truth will never be 100% established but will be somewhere between both polarised stories.

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        • frabbit 3 days ago

          I'd go further than that: the truth may be completely outside of the poles established by the stories concocted by involved parties.

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mschuster91 3 days ago

> Sure, let's look at processes, outcomes and efficiencies. So far we have 1 dead 10-year old girl and some other civilians.

Unreliable number of terrorists aside, by more than a few reports the Lebanese ambassador to Iran [1]... not good looks for a government constantly claiming to have no relationship with Hezbollah.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-ambassador-lebanon-injured-...

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elliekelly 3 days ago

Maybe future iterations of this attack will include facial recognition to determine user age > ~18?

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