Slippery_JimTrans/Lives
Why are you like this? Why are you always like this?
3mo ago#7049719
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I mean, it does bother me that I could have been sat on a plane with some butthole back in coach who had one of these pagers. I suppose the airport scanner might have picked up the explosive but I think that's relying on the monkey looking at the screen to know what to look for.
The fact that they distributed thousands of pagers and then waited half a year to set them off makes me think that they had some intel indicating that Hezbollah didn't take their pagers out of Lebanon since a single pager being discovered by airport dogs would have compromised the entire operation.
And even if there had been a real chance of a Hezbollah member carrying his pager onto a plane next to you, I think the signal was only sent to a specific region of Lebanon and Syria, not all pagers were detonated.
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I mean, it does bother me that I could have been sat on a plane with some butthole back in coach who had one of these pagers. I suppose the airport scanner might have picked up the explosive but I think that's relying on the monkey looking at the screen to know what to look for.
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It would be pretty easy to see a big wad of plastic explosives in a pager. If it wasn't we would see it happen more.
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The fact that they distributed thousands of pagers and then waited half a year to set them off makes me think that they had some intel indicating that Hezbollah didn't take their pagers out of Lebanon since a single pager being discovered by airport dogs would have compromised the entire operation.
And even if there had been a real chance of a Hezbollah member carrying his pager onto a plane next to you, I think the signal was only sent to a specific region of Lebanon and Syria, not all pagers were detonated.
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If it was turned off, I don't think it would have exploded?
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