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    Again: communication devices blowing up simultaneously across Lebanon

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    2. Semmcity on

      This is some wild psychological warfare. I honestly can’t believe it.

      Imagine if they keep this up all week.

    3. Joltie on

      > I don’t know why anyone would go anywhere near anything electronic in Lebanon since yesterday. 

      For obvious reasons: only pagers blew up the first time around, and reports were that the pagers were either hacked or injected with an explosive material. If you’re either not related to Hezbollah or you’re using something other than a pager, why would you think that laptops and walkie talkies would start blowing up, especially as it has never happened before?

    4. -Sliced- on

      These are different devices (2-way radios vs the pagers from yesterday).

      I imagine that this follow up is not due to some strategic reasons but simply a case of a “use it or lose it” before they are detected.

      With that said, there is a (very small) chance that this is intended as a way to cripple Hezbollah’s communication network (either from lack of devices, or from extra carefulness), to enable an immediate ground invasion.

    6. placeboski on

      Wow, it’s not just a shipment of pagers or pagers but walkie-talkies and probably other forms of communication equipment as well. Fax machines and carrier pigeons are next !

    8. Dawn_of_Enceladus on

      This is straight psychological warfare through terrorism, and the amount of civilians affected by this… damn.

      >Is this a double down by the mysterious attacker?

      Yeah, as mysterious as why is there light during day.