Reminder: this happened yesterday when pagers held by Hizb’Allah members all simultaneously exploded wherever they were…including in the hands of the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon…
…and now we have the walkie talkies going boom
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https://apnews.com/live/lebanon-syria-pagers-hezbollah-updates
Update from @ MannieFabian on Birdshite
“Lebanon's health ministry raises the death toll of the walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon today to 20.
Another 450 were wounded in the blasts,the health ministry says.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announces the death of a seventh member today.”
@Usama_Backhair So many people happy that some bad guys got blown up, and acting like the not-bad-guys that got blowed up is worth it somehow.
I just keep thinking of being in the store, and next thing I know, I'm holding someone's artery closed, maybe mine, because some terrorist wanted to kill another terrorist. Or some ruler wanted to fight pawns with another
@AskTheDevil
Nobody who wasn’t a bad guy had a Hizb’Allah pager, all the the videos I saw of the detonations saw only the person in possession of the pagers being hurt, everyone else running and getting away…the walkies are only in the possession of actual on the ground Hizb’Allah soldiers, or operatives, in active combat operations.
There aren’t any good guys with these tampered models and they can know by monitoring the channel they’re using. Same way they sent the signal.
@AskTheDevil
This is as precise a targeting of specifically terrorist fighters only, and terrorist leaders only, as has ever existed. No civilians or good guys are using their channel or in possession of the specific walkies or pagers as they were purchased by Hizb’Allah and intercepted/tampered en route after purchase.
If anyone had those devices, they were 100% a terrorist, as those were exclusively given only to them, secretly, by leadership, and told to keep it a secret.
@Usama_Backhair The devices went off in public next to regular people. That's my concern here. I get that _most_ of the beepers (unless stolen, dropped, traded, lost, or many other things) were probably with the targets. With bombs in them. Which were triggered next to whoever happened to be nearby.
So we're clear here: I'm complaining about bombs that were set off in public, harming and killing civilians.
Do you think only bad guys were harmed? Is that our disconnect?
@Usama_Backhair To me, what happened was someone did the equivalent of tossing a grenade into a crowd, because that's where the bad guy happened to be.
When you toss grenades into a crowd of random people to get a "bad guy" you're a "bad guy" too, in my view.
Aren't we mad at those bad guys for blowing up civilians in public places?
Even if it were _true_ that only Hezbollah had pagers, the people around them didn't need blinding and killing.
@Usama_Backhair We've got people from the US who go involve themselves directly in foreign conflicts, as mercenaries, for ideology, etc.
If one of them and their group burns a village, would it be okay to throw a hand grenade into a crowd of New Yorkers or Denverites, to get them? Or blow up a pocket pager bomb?
@AskTheDevil
If they do that, they are the ones putting themselves and anyone else they involve at risk, that's not on others. They made that choice.