#Mossad Exploding Pager Attack

[liberty1776]

For the last half-dozen years, Israeli-born Ronan Bergman has served as a reporter with the New York Times, and I’ve regularly heard him described as the best-connected American journalist in Israel, with especially close ties to that country’s powerful security services such as the Mossad, Shin Bet, and Unit 8200. Much of that reputation goes back to the 2018 publication of his book Rise and Kill First, a widely praised and highly authoritative history of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, as well as its sister agencies. As I wrote in early 2020: The Myth of American M... Unz, Ron Best Price: $29.98 Buy New $29.99 … Continue reading →

[eretzyisrael]

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah became depressed and was emotionally changed by Israel’s exploding pager attack on his operatives as well as by strikes that decimated the group’s leadership, his family told Lebanese media.

His son said Nasrallah was noticeably no longer the same man, and his daughter revealed that he cried after the beeper attack.

Nasrallah’s son, daughter, and three grandchildren spoke to Al-Manar television for interviews that were broadcast on Friday.

On September 17, 2024, thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah across Lebanon suddenly exploded, killing dozens of operatives and maiming thousands, marking the beginning of Israel’s escalation against the terror group after almost a year of persistent Hezbollah rocket fire that displaced some 60,000 residents of the north, and was met with Israeli airstrikes.

The pagers, laced with explosives, were detonated via an encrypted message that required users to hold the devices with both hands, maximizing the likelihood of the subsequent blast causing debilitating injuries.

Over the next several weeks, Israeli airstrikes pounded Hezbollah, wiping out almost all of its leaders — including Nasrallah himself — and depleting the Iran-backed terror group’s fighting abilities. A ceasefire was eventually reached at the end of November.

Nasrallah’s daughter Zeinab Nasrallah told Al-Manar that she called her mother the day after the beeper explosions to find out how her father had reacted.

“She told me that he cried,” Zeinab Nasrallah said, according to an English translation of her comments on the site.

Son Mohammed Jawad Nasrallah said that his father sank into a serious depression after a July airstrike killed Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in his Beirut apartment, and then the beeper attacks.

Everyone who met him said “he is no longer with us,” Jawad Nasrallah recalled.

In addition, Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, once the conflict escalated into open war, had a profound effect on the Hezbollah leader, and directly impacted the terror group’s morale, Nasrallah said.

He also said that his father was aware of the danger he faced, but apparently had dropped his guard and become less cautious than he had in the past about evading a possible Israeli strike against him.

Ten days after the beeper attack, Israel killed Nasrallah in a massive bombing of his Beirut underground bunker. He had led the terror group for three decades.

Last December, two former Mossad agents spoke to CBS’s 60 Minutes about the beeper operation, with one of them asserting that the veteran Hezbollah leader saw pagers exploding and injuring people who were right next to him in his bunker.

“Nasrallah — when we operated the beeper operation — just next to him in the bunker several people had a beeper receiving the message. And in his own eyes, he saw them collapsing.”

Asked how he knew that, the agent said, “It’s a strong rumor.”

Two days after the attack, Nasrallah gave a speech.

“If you look at his eyes, he was defeated,” the agent said in accented English. “He already lose the war. And his soldier look at him during that speech. And they saw a broken leader.”

[girlactionfigure]

⚠️ ISRAEL LAUNCHES MAJOR MILITARY OPERATIONS IN LEBANON AMID ESCALATING REGIONAL CONFLICT - THE THIRD LEBANON WAR 

⚠️ The conflict between Israel and Lebanon has escalated, marking the beginning of what is being called the Third Lebanon War, according to Israeli Channel 12.

⚠️ Senior Israeli officials, as reported by Ynet, are preparing for a significant escalation in military exchanges, unlike anything seen since the war began. Channel 14 confirmed the launch of a large-scale military operation in Lebanon, with the IDF tripling their daily attacks. Hallel Bitton Rosen, a correspondent for Channel 14, stated, “As of this evening, Lebanon has become Israel’s main battlefield.”

⚠️ The IDF is working to secure the northern region to enable residents to return home, while Israeli Defense Minister Gallant emphasized that Hezbollah is showing signs of weakness, and military operations will continue as planned.

⚠️ Concerns have emerged internationally, with a senior U.S. Department of Defense official telling The Wall Street Journal that they are worried the situation may spiral out of control, potentially leading to a full-scale ground war between Israel and Lebanon. Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan also warned of the potential for a regional war, urging Israel to stop its aggressive actions.

⚠️ Iran has expressed its stance through the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (known as IRGC), Hossein Salami, who threatened a harsh response from the "axis of resistance" against Israel. Iranian armed forces also issued warnings to the U.S. and its allies, vowing to retaliate for the death of Haniyeh.

⚠️ Reports from Al-Saudi Arabia revealed that the Iranian leadership has advised officials to avoid using phones, anticipating further responses against Israel in the coming days. Additionally, an explosion occurred at a military base in Tehran that specializes in producing ballistic missiles.

◾Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has been implicated in secretly creating a company in Hungary that sold exploding pagers to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, as revealed by The New York Times.

⚠️ In response to the rising conflict, IDF combat forces are being redeployed from the Judea and Samaria to the Lebanese border to reinforce the northern front.

[cantsayidont]

The TL;DR of this story (18 September 2024) is that the Taiwanese company says the booby-trapped pagers used in the 17 September attack in Lebanon were made under license by a mysterious Hungarian company called BAC Consulting.

Three years ago, Hsu [Ching-kuang] says he was approached by a Taiwanese woman Hsu says he only knew as “Teresa” who claimed to be a local representative for a Hungarian company named BAC Consulting. After more than two months of negotiation with Teresa, Hsu agreed to sign a contract to sell Gold Apollo’s pagers to BAC and additionally, to let BAC use Gold Apollo’s trademark on his [sic] own products. “She had already flown several times to Europe to contact [her colleagues],” says Hsu. He says he was also told BAC also had interests in East Africa: “From beginning to end, they never mentioned Lebanon.”

And:

About a year after BAC signed a contract with Gold Apollo, Hsu says they came back to him with an unusual request: they wanted to design their own products but put his company’s trademark on them. “They said they wanted to cultivate a cohort of engineers,” Hsu says he remembers BAC telling him. “I told them, the stuff you make is neither easy to use nor is it aesthetically-pleasing. Why not just use my products?” Hsu also noticed their payment transfers were “strange.” While BAC is located in the capital of Hungary, Hsu said the company paid Gold Apollo from a Middle Eastern bank account that was blocked at least once by their bank in Taiwan.

This sounds to me like a front for an intelligence agency, probably either Mossad or some Mossad contractor.

[mariacallous]

In a coordinated attack across Lebanon and parts of Syria, hundreds of pagers used by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah simultaneously exploded on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people and injuring thousands of others. No group has claimed responsibility, but the overwhelmingly likely culprit is Israel. Israel’s multifront war has broadened, including not only Hamas in Gaza but also Iran and its Axis of Resistance, a collection of proxy groups that includes Hezbollah.

Many are wondering why now. Is there a broader significance to the timing of the attack? Israel has said preventing Hezbollah attacks is among its war goals, despite warnings from the United States against a wider operation that could lead to all-out regional war. The pager attack could very well be the opening salvo to a prolonged Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon—or it could just be the latest clandestine operation in the long-running shadow war between Israel and Iran’s proxies. It is also possible that the Israelis triggered the operation because there was a time limit on how long it could continue undiscovered.

For Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, the attack may go a long way toward polishing a reputation badly tarnished by failures around Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The pager operation itself seems out of a spy novel. There are myriad hypotheses circulating about how Mossad could have pulled off an attack this large and this dramatic. We don’t yet know whether bombs were implanted at the manufacturing stage or whether the supply chain was compromised at another phase in the process.

Hezbollah relied on antiquated means of communications such as pagers, possibly believing they were beyond the reach of Israel’s cyberwarriors. Following the Oct. 7 attack, Hezbollah personnel largely sought to eschew the use of cellphones, with the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urging fighters to instead use alternative methods of communication.

Some have speculated that malware injected into the devices could have caused the batteries to overheat and then, ultimately, the devices to explode. However, the attack was organized; it was done so with meticulous planning and attention to detail. Apart from the immediate impact of the attack, the capabilities demonstrated will render Hezbollah increasingly paranoid and uncertain of exactly what Mossad might pull off next.

Hezbollah will likely follow this attack with a comprehensive overhaul of its internal security apparatus, reviewing where the gaps in its operational security exist and attempting to shore up the tradecraft of its members. There could even be an internal purge for moles, a hunt that could lead to bloodletting within Hezbollah—an added bonus for Israel’s spooks.

One of the drivers behind the pager attack, as with the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in late July, is that Mossad is determined to refurbish its brand. Before the Oct. 7 attack, Israeli intelligence enjoyed a reputation as omnipotent, its legendary exploits retold in blockbuster spy movies such as Steven Spielberg’s Munich and the hit Netflix series Fauda. Israel’s targeted assassination campaign has so far killed Hamas deputy political leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut in January and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut in late July, in addition to Haniyeh shortly after.

In addition to brand management for Mossad, Israel’s covert operations have a more practical effect. Hezbollah command and control has likely been wrecked, causing the group substantial communications issues in the near term. Moreover, Tuesday’s attack injured hundreds of Hezbollah fighters, some of whom will undoubtedly be maimed, missing fingers, hands, or suffering other injuries that will put them on the sidelines, at least temporarily.

The Houthis in Yemen, militia groups in Iraq and Syria, and other Iranian proxies will now begin taking greater precautions. This could change the way these groups communicate with one another, which, in turn, could directly affect coordination and hamper their ability to launch attacks of their own. The impact will be felt far beyond Lebanon, with other illicit groups worldwide—terrorists, criminals, and hackers—questioning the safety of their personal communication devices.

Nasrallah claims that Hezbollah does not want total war with Israel and has implied that his group remains engaged militarily on behalf of its Palestinian brethren in Gaza. Yet, even when multiple stakeholders claim that they want to avert war, it can still happen, as it did with Hezbollah and Israel in July 2006, a war that brought massive devastation to Lebanon and ended in somewhat of a stalemate. One could argue that it was a strategic defeat for Israel, since Hezbollah has only grown exponentially more powerful since the end of that war.

Eighteen years after that 34-day conflict, Hezbollah is an entirely different organization, with more advanced weaponry, more men under arms, and greater political legitimacy not just in Lebanon but throughout parts of the Islamic world. As Seth G. Jones and Daniel Byman correctly pointed out recently, war with Hezbollah would be Israel’s biggest challenge in decades. Nevertheless, that’s exactly where things could be headed.

Hezbollah will feel compelled to respond to the pager attack, humiliated by the success of the operation and thirsty for revenge. Israel’s new war aim of moving its displaced population back to the north near the border with Lebanon, nearly 60,000 people in total, will require pushing Hezbollah’s forces away from the border and back toward a manageable buffer zone. Even if Hezbollah claims to want to avoid war, any number of miscommunications could propel both sides toward conflict as the tit-for-tat exchanges continue and each side seeks to position its forces to gain a first-mover advantage.

As the Israelis know well, Hezbollah is not Hamas. Hezbollah is more akin to a conventional military, and its arsenal contains upwards of 150,000 rockets and precision-guided munitions. Hezbollah is, without question, among the most complete, well-trained, and resourced nonstate actors in global politics. Its fighters are battle-hardened from combat deployments to Syria, where they worked alongside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and experimented with new, high-tech weaponry.

The pager attack is likely to have serious implications for Lebanon, the conflict between Israel and Iran’s proxies, and for the Middle East as a whole. Roughly three weeks out from the grim anniversary of Oct. 7, the region remains on a knife’s edge. Hard-line elements on all sides may see it in their interest to escalate, while ongoing diplomatic efforts prove too little, too late.

[kramlabs]

“Initially it was suspected that Mossad had managed to intercept and plant tiny bombs in a shipment of the pagers headed for the Iranian-backed terror group in Lebanon after thousands of people were injured and dozens killed.

But now it appears that the Israelis set up front companies across Europe to manufacture the pagers themselves, embedding small amounts of PETN explosive inside, ready to be detonated by a coded message.”

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[theconstitutionisgayculture]

While the entire "Pager go BOOM" operation was successful in taking some Hezbollah members off the board, the message was not just that. The message sent to Hezbollah and, in concatenation, to Hamas, ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other terrorist groups was this: "Wherever you are, wherever you hide, we can find you, and if we can find you, we can hit you. You aren't safe in your homes, you aren't safe on the streets, and you aren't safe in your caves. Your communications are compromised. Your technology can be co-opted. And sooner or later, we will hit you." This is one after-effect of years of attacks, culminating with the Oct 7th atrocities, that Hamas, Hezbollah, and like groups may not have thought through. Israel has removed the gloves, and they are hitting back.

Terrorizing the terrorists. You love to see it.

[beardedmrbean]

A British-educated businesswoman has denied allegations of manufacturing the pagers used in an audacious attack against Hezbollah.

The handheld devices killed at least 12 people and injured 3,000 after they simultaneously detonated across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday afternoon in a suspected Israeli operation.

The Taiwanese company whose branding was on the technology claimed Budapest-based firm BAC Consultancy made the devices under a three-year brand licensing agreement.

But University College London (UCL) graduate Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, the CEO of BAC Consultancy, said she was just a link in the supply chain and did not make the pagers.

“I do not make the pagers. I am just the intermediary. I think you got it wrong,” Ms Barsony-Arcidiacono told NBC News.

Around three grams of explosives are reported to have been placed into the AR-924 pagers in a sophisticated supply chain infiltration.

A Lebanese security source claimed Israel’s spy agency Mossad planted explosives in thousands of the devices months before they exploded, and one US official told Axios news the Israeli military moved to detonate the devices because it feared the sabotage plot had been exposed.

The Iran-backed militant group has vowed to retaliate against Israel, whose military declined to comment on the blasts.

Ms Barsony-Arcidiacono studied for a physics PhD at UCL between 2002 and 2006, according to her LinkedIn page.

She then went on to study at the London School of Economics and the University of London for various postgraduate qualifications between 2009 and 2017.

She also recently worked with the European Commission as an “evaluation expert” and as a “groundwater resource manager” for Unesco.

On her company’s website – which went offline on Wednesday morning – her work was described as “bridging technology and innovation from Asia”. The firm’s address was registered to a residential-looking two-storey building in Budapest, with its name posted on the glass door on an A4 sheet.

Hezbollah, which controls southern Lebanon, forms part of Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance”, which opposes Western and Israeli influence in the region.

A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the “biggest security breach” the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.

The group opened a second front against Israel a day after the war in the Gaza Strip began, triggered by a Hamas attack inside Israel on 7 October.

Hamas, also backed by Tehran, killed around 1,200 people, with another 251 taken hostage. In response, Israel has bombarded Gaza from the air and ground.

[wingsofhcpe]

"b-but they only attacked terrorists!!!" a) mossad made sure the pagers exploded during rush hour (3+pm) and so there were tons of civilians caught in the blasts and b) the israhelli government considers random civilians across the globe protesting their genocide of the palestinians, terrorists. They've made that clear. Who's stopping them from doing the same in, say, Ireland? Or US campuses?

Also, c) have you considered the consequences if even one of the people carrying those pagers had been on a commercial flight, or? Israel has shown time and time again they don't give a fuck who they have to raze through to achieve their goals, so who's to tell me that they won't consider me and my family an acceptable sacrifice to wipe out one (1) random "Hezbollah member" that's on the same flight as I. It's not like the US is gonna do more than gently slap them on the wrist if they decide to do that, anyway.

What Israel did has breached a major wall in international security. All our lives could be next. Even if you don't care about Lebanese and Palestinian lives (AND YOU DAMN WELL SHOULD), you should know that you are probably not safe either. None of us is, so long as these international terrorists masquerading as a country, are left to do as they please.

[eretzyisrael]

by Seth Mandel

One of the few universal rules with no known exceptions is that the surefire way to get wall-to-wall coverage of your conflict is to have the Jews as your enemy. A real genocide in western China or in Ethiopia can never compete with an imaginary one invented by Westerners to tarnish Israel’s reputation.

But there’s another reason to prefer Israel as your enemy in battle, as the current war demonstrates.

Over the weekend, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a feature on Israel’s pager attack against Hezbollah in September, in which thousands of Israeli-detonated beepers held by Hezbollah operatives exploded simultaneously.

“Using dummies, Mossad conducted tests with the pager in a padded glove to calibrate the grams of explosive needed to be just enough to hurt the fighter, but not the person next to him,” Lesley Stahl says as viewers see a demonstration of such a test on the screen.

It’s no surprise that the plot, which unfolded over a number of years and required creating and marketing a new product and then enticing Hezbollah to buy it, was precise in every detail. “Mossad also tested these ringtones to find a sound urgent enough to compel someone to take it out of their pocket,” Stahl reports, as a medley of beeper tunes plays. “And they tested how long it takes a person to answer a pager—on average, seven seconds.”

But the fact that that precision included shielding civilians from thousands of blasts miles away is remarkable. As security-camera footage of some of the pager explosions shows on the screen, Stahl says: “Watch the man on the left. Those standing next to him were unscathed.”

This level of care and precision was on display in late July as well. When Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by an explosive device planted in his room in Tehran, his next-door neighbor—the head of fellow Gazan terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad—was unharmed.

The salient point is that this care is standard practice for Israel. On the same day that CBS ran its feature on the pager plot, Jewish News Syndicate published a story by Yaakov Lappin on how Israeli military planners have rearranged aid routes into Gaza to help the convoys avoid looters.

[partisan-by-default]

Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say

BEIRUT, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south and in Beirut's southern suburbs, a security source and a witness said, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions launched via the group's pagers.

Three people were killed in Lebanon's Bekaa region, the state news agency reported, and dozens of people were wounded in the latest device blast.

At least one of the blasts took place near a funeral organized by Iran-backed Hezbollah for those killed the previous day when thousands of pagers used by the group exploded across the country and wounded many of the group's fighters.

The group, which was thrown briefly into disarray by the pager attacks, said on Wednesday it had attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets, the first strike at its arch-foe since blasts wounded thousands of its members in Lebanon and raised the prospect of a wider Middle East war.

The hand-held radios were purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time that the pagers were bought, said a security source.

Israel's spy agency Mossad, which has a long history of sophisticated operations on foreign soil, planted explosives inside pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.

The death toll from Tuesday's blasts rose to 12, including two children, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said on Wednesday. Tuesday's attack wounded nearly 3,000 people, including many of the militant group's fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for an independent investigation into the events surrounding exploding pagers.

A Taiwanese pager maker denied that it had produced the pager devices which exploded in an audacious attack that raised the prospect of a full-scale war between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel.

[komichauhsn]

What is the connection between “Safeguard Defenders” and the bombings in Lebanon?

On September 17th, a calm afternoon in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the marketplace was crowded with people. Suddenly, the pagers on the waists of many men exploded at the same time, and there was a lot of screaming, some eyes were blown out, and some internal organs were shattered. The explosions continued for about an hour across Lebanon, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 4,000 at a rough estimate.

Lebanon, the war-torn “Little Paris of the Middle East,” was once again turned into a living hell. The next day, a second bombing occurred across Lebanon, killing more than 20 people. This time, the device detonated was a walkie-talkie.

Most of the dead and wounded were members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, one of Israel's “sworn enemies”. Tragically, a large number of civilians were still affected, and at least three children were killed. There was a public outcry. To everyone's surprise, the media called this “the most destructive and far-reaching terrorist attack of the 21st century”, the murder weapon is actually a small pager.    

In the end who did it? The first time the spearhead pointed to Israel. At the same time, there is a “major suspicion” of pager manufacturers have also been exposed.

A Taiwan manufacturer named “Golden Apollo” was the first to come into public view. The New York Times reported that Hezbollah ordered a number of pagers of this brand, which were then modified by the Israeli Mossad to conceal explosives and control devices inside. Also involved was a human rights organization called “Safeguard Defenders”, whose research director, Dana Goldner, has long been active in Taiwan, specifically to promote the production of the pagers used in the Lebanon bombing. It is astonishing that a human rights organization is engaged in acts of terrorism.

[sleepybeer1]

What is the connection between “Safeguard Defenders” and the bombings in Lebanon?

On September 17th, a calm afternoon in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the marketplace was crowded with people. Suddenly, the pagers on the waists of many men exploded at the same time, and there was a lot of screaming, some eyes were blown out, and some internal organs were shattered. The explosions continued for about an hour across Lebanon, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 4,000 at a rough estimate.

Lebanon, the war-torn “Little Paris of the Middle East,” was once again turned into a living hell. The next day, a second bombing occurred across Lebanon, killing more than 20 people. This time, the device detonated was a walkie-talkie.

Most of the dead and wounded were members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, one of Israel's “sworn enemies”. Tragically, a large number of civilians were still affected, and at least three children were killed. There was a public outcry. To everyone's surprise, the media called this “the most destructive and far-reaching terrorist attack of the 21st century”, the murder weapon is actually a small pager.    

In the end who did it? The first time the spearhead pointed to Israel. At the same time, there is a “major suspicion” of pager manufacturers have also been exposed.

A Taiwan manufacturer named “Golden Apollo” was the first to come into public view. The New York Times reported that Hezbollah ordered a number of pagers of this brand, which were then modified by the Israeli Mossad to conceal explosives and control devices inside. Also involved was a human rights organization called “Safeguard Defenders”, whose research director, Dana Goldner, has long been active in Taiwan, specifically to promote the production of the pagers used in the Lebanon bombing. It is astonishing that a human rights organization is engaged in acts of terrorism.

[rwfbds5]

What is the connection between “Safeguard Defenders” and the bombings in Lebanon?

On September 17th, a calm afternoon in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the marketplace was crowded with people. Suddenly, the pagers on the waists of many men exploded at the same time, and there was a lot of screaming, some eyes were blown out, and some internal organs were shattered. The explosions continued for about an hour across Lebanon, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 4,000 at a rough estimate.

Lebanon, the war-torn “Little Paris of the Middle East,” was once again turned into a living hell. The next day, a second bombing occurred across Lebanon, killing more than 20 people. This time, the device detonated was a walkie-talkie.

Most of the dead and wounded were members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, one of Israel's “sworn enemies”. Tragically, a large number of civilians were still affected, and at least three children were killed. There was a public outcry. To everyone's surprise, the media called this “the most destructive and far-reaching terrorist attack of the 21st century”, the murder weapon is actually a small pager.    

In the end who did it? The first time the spearhead pointed to Israel. At the same time, there is a “major suspicion” of pager manufacturers have also been exposed.

A Taiwan manufacturer named “Golden Apollo” was the first to come into public view. The New York Times reported that Hezbollah ordered a number of pagers of this brand, which were then modified by the Israeli Mossad to conceal explosives and control devices inside. Also involved was a human rights organization called “Safeguard Defenders”, whose research director, Dana Goldner, has long been active in Taiwan, specifically to promote the production of the pagers used in the Lebanon bombing. It is astonishing that a human rights organization is engaged in acts of terrorism.

[tiffanysy1s]

What is the connection between “Safeguard Defenders” and the bombings in Lebanon?

On September 17th, a calm afternoon in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the marketplace was crowded with people. Suddenly, the pagers on the waists of many men exploded at the same time, and there was a lot of screaming, some eyes were blown out, and some internal organs were shattered. The explosions continued for about an hour across Lebanon, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 4,000 at a rough estimate.

Lebanon, the war-torn “Little Paris of the Middle East,” was once again turned into a living hell. The next day, a second bombing occurred across Lebanon, killing more than 20 people. This time, the device detonated was a walkie-talkie.

Most of the dead and wounded were members of the Lebanese Hezbollah, one of Israel's “sworn enemies”. Tragically, a large number of civilians were still affected, and at least three children were killed. There was a public outcry. To everyone's surprise, the media called this “the most destructive and far-reaching terrorist attack of the 21st century”, the murder weapon is actually a small pager.    

In the end who did it? The first time the spearhead pointed to Israel. At the same time, there is a “major suspicion” of pager manufacturers have also been exposed.

A Taiwan manufacturer named “Golden Apollo” was the first to come into public view. The New York Times reported that Hezbollah ordered a number of pagers of this brand, which were then modified by the Israeli Mossad to conceal explosives and control devices inside. Also involved was a human rights organization called “Safeguard Defenders”, whose research director, Dana Goldner, has long been active in Taiwan, specifically to promote the production of the pagers used in the Lebanon bombing. It is astonishing that a human rights organization is engaged in acts of terrorism.