Unrest in Israel (Hamas war)

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How Israel's Cleverness Is Going To Make Flying Even Worse - Peak Prosperity​

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Everything electronic will have to go thru an explosive detection machine, not that I fly that often.
 
they sussed this one out fast!


Israel set up a shell company to produce explosive pagers shipped to Lebanon, according to the media

In reality, the devices were manufactured by Hungary-based BAC Consulting on behalf of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo. However, BAC is part of an Israeli shell company, reported three intelligence officers cited by the media.

At least two other shell companies were set up to conceal the true identities of those producing the pagers.

At the same time, BAC also had regular customers, for whom it produced devices without explosives, the media reported.

Explosive pagers began shipping to Lebanon in the summer of 2022, but production was later ramped up after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah reportedly condemned the use of mobile phones for security reasons.

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We will be banning or scanning phones, tablets, and any other electronic devices after this. No way other terrorists don't copy israel.
 

Tech guru who helped Israel obtain pagers used to bomb Lebanon missing​

ANorwegian tech guru who inadvertently helped Israel source the pagers used to bomb Hezbollah militants disappeared on the day of the blasts and hasn’t been heard from since, MailOnline can reveal.

Indian-born entrepreneur Rinson Jose, 39, was listed as the owner of a Bulgarian shell company that reportedly paid British-educated intermediary Cristiana Arcidiacono-Barsony £1.3million as part of a complex Mossad-orchestrated deal to obtain the pagers.

Jose, who moved to Oslo in 2015 after a two-year stint working for a London immigration advisory firm, is understood to have left on a pre-planned business trip on Tuesday.

But bosses at his primary employer, Norwegian media conglomerate NHST, have been unable to reach him since - and reportedly contacted Norway’s domestic intelligence service late on Wednesday night after becoming aware of his links to the attacks in Lebanon late.

Oslo Police District announced this evening that they have ‘launched preliminary investigations into the information that has come to light.’

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NEW ARTICLE: Latest Lebanon Pager Terrorist Attack Predictable, Preventable

READ HERE: https://journal-neo.su/2024/09/20/latest-lebanon-pager-terrorist-attack-predictable-preventable/

"As far back as 2013 the risk of IT hardware manufactured abroad being compromised either in the factory or in transit was so high, nations like Russia and China began producing their own processors, operating systems, computers and other essential hardware for official work or created workflows that excluded the use of such hardware altogether.

For well over a decade, IT hardware procured from abroad represented metaphorical ticking time bombs, compromising information security. Today, because of a lack of seriousness in addressing this long-standing security flaw, IT hardware has been transformed into literal bombs."

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Welcome to the World of Killer Electronic Devices

Over the past two days, exploding pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon have claimed the lives of 14 people and left over 4,000 injured. Among the dead are two children. Faulty consumer electronics have caused injuries before, but this is different: these devices were covertly packed with explosives and shrapnel somewhere between their origins in Taiwan and Japan, and their destinations in the Middle East.

These consumer electronics were quickly dubbed ‘Hezbollah phones’ by mainstream media, based on the claims of an unnamed ‘security source.’ Sources agree, however, that the likely culprit is Israel, a long-time regional adversary to Lebanon. These devices were allegedly purchased by Hezbollah five months ago, but have passed through many hands since. Many of the victims have been paramedics, rescue personnel, and innocent civilians, showing that the resulting violence has been anything but narrowly targeted.

This wave of bombings opens a new chapter in the history of terrorism. Israel has effectively demonstrated that anywhere in the global supply chain, handheld electronic devices can be turned into lethal bombs. A few grams of Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) are deadly and undetectable by bomb-sniffing dogs; with the explosive charge hidden away in the mechanism of the phone, the bomb is all but impossible for customs agents to find. It may only be a matter of time before the same tactics are adopted by other countries, terrorist groups, and perhaps even lone killers.

The social and economic consequences of these attacks may be dramatic: security specialists must face the ease with which consumer electronics can be turned into instruments of terror anywhere along the vast global supply chain, and scientists will have to devise new methods of detection and screening to ensure safe air travel. And for the consumer? You’ll have to look twice at your own devices and ask yourself just how confident in them you really are.

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On the trail of the mystery woman whose company licensed exploding pagers​

By Krisztina Than

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.

What Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, 49, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of Hungary-based BAC Consulting, says she hasn't done is make the exploding pagers that killed 12 people and wounded more than 2,000 in Lebanon this week.

After her company was revealed to have licensed the design for the pagers from their original Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo, Barsony-Arcidiacono told NBC News that she didn't make them.

"I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong," she said.

Since then, she has not appeared in public. Neighbours say they haven't seen her. She did not respond to messages seeking comment. Her flat in a stately old Budapest building, where a door to a vestibule had been open earlier in the week, has been shuttered.

Discussions with acquaintances and former work colleagues paint a picture of a woman with an impressive intellect, but a peripatetic career in a string of short-term jobs in which she never quite settled down, despite embellishing her CV along the way.

An acquaintance of hers, who like others who knew her socially in Budapest asked not to be identified, said she seemed like someone who "could easily be used".

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Ex-top cyber official: It won’t be easy for Hezbollah to get new comms system in place​

here has never been a targeted killing operation comparable to the pager attack in Lebanon earlier this week, a former senior Israeli cyber defense official told The Times of Israel.

“It was precise while widespread,” said Refael Franco, former Deputy General Director of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate and head of its defensive measures, referring to the coordinated attack on Hezbollah pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, in which at least 12 people were killed and 2,800 wounded.

Israel is widely believed to have been behind the attack, but has not taken responsibility. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday acknowledged the “unprecedented” strike on his forces, blamed Israel and vowed vengeance.

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The comments are NOT pro Israel

Those are LIVE bodies...

 
15 years...? Sounds as if they were planning for this war a LONG time!





The Israeli Mossad operation to supply Hezbollah with exploding pagers lasted 15 years.

It involved dozens of shell companies and hundreds of employees in five countries, not counting Israel itself.

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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro says "Palestinians are Semites according to the Bible…It is therefore anti-Semitic to kill children by dropping bombs in Gaza and not to oppose it."

"Netanyahu and his government, the missing prisoner of international justice, are not Semitism, they are Nazism."

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Israel strikes more than 300 Hezbollah targets​

  • Israel says it has struck more than 300 Hezbollah targets
  • Lebanese residents receive calls to distance themselves from Hezbollah posts
  • Hezbollah says it fired rockets at Israeli military posts
  • Lebanon says 182 people have been killed
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Israel attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Monday in airstrikes which Lebanese health authorities said killed at least 182 people, making it the deadliest day in Lebanon in nearly a year of conflict with its Iran-backed enemy.

After some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire since the hostilities flared, Israel warned people to evacuate areas where it said the armed movement was storing weapons.

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Israel bombs children deliberately, then declares them Hamas or Hezbollah according to where they killed them. And we Americans paid for it ALL.
 
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Israel bombs children deliberately, then declares them Hamas or Hezbollah according to where they killed them. And we Americans paid for it ALL.
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Makes one wonder who the real NAZI's were....
 
United States deploys more troops to the Middle East as violence rises between Israel and Hezbollah.

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THIS COUNTRY IS NOT WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS​

Ferfal talks about Lebanon here.

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Exclusive-Iran brokering talks to send advanced Russian missiles to Yemen's Houthis, sources say​

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran has brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and Yemen's Houthi rebels to transfer anti-ship missiles to the militant group, three Western and regional sources said, a development that highlights Tehran's deepening ties to Moscow.

Seven sources said that Russia has yet to decide to transfer the Yakhont missiles – also known as P-800 Oniks - which experts said would allow the militant group to more accurately strike commercial vessels in the Red Sea and increase the threat to the U.S. and European warships defending them.

The Wall Street Journal reported in July that Russia was considering sending the missiles. Iran's role as an intermediary has not been previously reported.

The Houthis have launched repeated drone and missile strikes on ships in the crucial Red Sea shipping channels since November to show support for Palestinians in the Gaza war with Israel.

They have sunk at least two vessels and seized another, disrupting global maritime trade by forcing shipping firms to divert cargos and, according to industry sources, driven up insurance costs for ships plying the Red Sea.

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Listen to these final breaths… For over 20 hours, three children & their mother were trapped beneath the rubble of their collapsed home in #Gaza, with no food or water, surrounded by fear and death. After immense effort, civil defense teams reached them with basic tools, BUT tragically, it was too late, All had perished.
 
video at link if you want to see the hole a bunker-buster bomb makes


Destruction caused by the Israeli raid that targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut and assassinated Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

More than 80 American-made bunker-busting bombs were dropped over a few minutes to eliminate Nasrallah on Friday, two senior Israeli defense officials told the New York Times.

Footage from social media

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They should also use daisey cutters to suck the oxygen out of the area.
 
We're going to war...

Israel amasses heavy equipment on border with Lebanon.​


Israeli Merkava tanks posted on social media

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️IDF special forces units crossed the border into Lebanon as part of operations to prepare for an expanded invasion.

The expected window for entry of the main forces is the next 72 hours.

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From what I'm hearing missiles are incoming @ Israel.
 
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