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Good reporting would have sourced more pagers of this model and examined them to verify this, but regardless, how many copycats did this inspire? DB Cooper's a
by diebeforei485 2y ago
Good reporting would have sourced more pagers of this model and examined them to verify this, but regardless, how many copycats did this inspire?
DB Cooper's antics led to several security procedures and aircraft modifications being implemented - not because of a single incident, but because it inspired other threats.
- philwelch 2y ago> Good reporting would have sourced more pagers of this model How exactly do you source more pagers from a now-defunct company that was a Mossad front formed specifically to sell a single order of explosives-laden pagers to Hezbollah?
- diebeforei485 2y agoWrong. BAC also sold pagers to ordinary clients.
- philwelch 2y agoIt’s funny how you say “wrong” and then fail to even contradict my claim.
- diebeforei485 2y agoI very specifically contradicted your claim. If you want sourcing, here is the New York Times[1] saying "B.A.C. did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers." 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-e...
- philwelch 2y agoMy claim was not that Hezbollah was BAC’s sole client; it was that BAC was a Mossad front formed for the sole purpose of selling tampered pagers to Hezbollah. That’s perfectly consistent with having other clients. Its not like Mossad was trying to make money in the pager business.
- diebeforei485 2y agoAnd good reporting would have sourced some pagers from the other clients.