We’ve probably all heard of the pager explosions in Lebanon, a clever/crazy move by Israel against Hezbollah.
But until I read the comments in the article above I hadn’t thought through the wider implications of what’s happened. We now have a situation where a common, even quite small, device can hold a few grams of explosive in a way that’s really hard to detect and be set off remotely, whether by individuals or a rouge state.
The effect of this in the short term is certainly going to be to extend and prolong the war with Israel, but I suspect that we’re all going to be affected by this going forward. Travel is the obvious problem, but the implications are much wider, not that there weren’t many other ways to kill people.
If it hasn’t before it will put ideas into heads that are more inclined to criminal activity rather than violence in the name of politically-based ‘anti-terrorism’.
Airport X-ray machine got upgraded some years ago after someone figured out how to make explosives appear very similar to lithium based batteries when scanned.
I expect security X-ray machine vendors will be rubbing their hands at this chance to sell their customers the “must have” upgrade of 2024 and a bunch of operator training courses.
I thought they could use adapted mobile phones to explode the moped mounted mobile phone theives.
There are 8 billion humans on the planet and we dont need all of them
Does that include the children? A pretty despicable and ill informed comment if you don’t mind me saying so.
This is just more indiscriminate killing from the fascist government of a rogue state.
Read as much as you want, Even Russia and the West are in agreement. The Israeli bastards want a regional war with the stupid US on their side, and have done since Oct 7th.
No civilised society wants the innocent to suffer, but as the Germans and the Japanese found out in WW2, if you conduct totalenkrieg against your enemies, you don’t get to complain when your enemies return the favour in spades.
