Comment by underlipton
Comment by underlipton 3 days ago
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Comment by underlipton 3 days ago
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Right but these were exploding in public right next to innocent people. There's CCTV footage of some of them exploding.
That's still a targeted attack and it seems from the media reports so far that the "collateral damage" is remarkably low, actually.
How did they make sure that only pagers carried by the armed wing of Hezbollah exploded, and not say an MP, nor one of their media workers, nor a manager in one of their hospitals? How did they know that no civilians were dangerously close when they exploded?
They didn’t. They put explosions in all the pagers which were distributed to all members of Hezbollah, military or not, and indiscriminately exploded them all at the same time, regardless of who was near the pager at the time.
This is incorrect in a disturbing way. How can something be "targeted" if the attackers simply do not and cannot know where the attacks are going to take place, physically and geographically?
All the media reports say that these were the pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its members.
Objectively this is therefore targeted, not indiscriminate...