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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...

Here is Hezbollah boasting to Reuters before the pagers attack, about how it moved to using pagers and couriers to counter Israeli intelligence.

As you can guess, with the advent of mobile phones in the 2000s, pagers became obsolete in Lebanon


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Cyph0n12/10/2025

Unless you’re a Lebanese doctor?

Not to you specifically, but it is astounding how indiscriminate terrorism is lauded as “brilliant”. Is it because the victims were not of the white Judeo-Christian variety? Seriously trying to understand the mental gymnastics here.

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