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That's actually a great point. Out of the hundreds of pagers that were out in the wild you'd think one of them went through an airport check at some point and g
by hparadiz 9mo ago
That's actually a great point. Out of the hundreds of pagers that were out in the wild you'd think one of them went through an airport check at some point and got flagged.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoWhy would it get flagged? Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them? Besides, if I was in a terrorist cell, had a pager for communicating, and was taking a vacation flight, I think I might leave that pager behind for a week.
- hparadiz 9mo agoLol no. They had actual explosives in them. Small but enough to kill and maim.
- 9991 9mo ago> Weren't they just slightly modified pagers essentially rigged to overheat, rather than they actually put explosives in them? No
- ivl 9mo agoNo. They weren't flagged because they went into Lebanon which has very little import security, and because it was a supply chain attack. The batteries were swapped for a combination battery / explosive charge. The follow-up attack where Hezbollah moved to using walkie-talkies that were also rigged to explode was the real shocker, though.