I'm going to kick off this new life posting on social media (don't really expect me to be here more than once a week) by speaking briefly about the absolutely horrifying attacks carried out in Lebanon. For those of you that are not aware, yesterday and today devices all over Lebanon started exploding. Yesterday around 3000 pagers, which were used by Hezbollah and affiliates for communications, began spontaneously exploding, killing and wounding hundreds, including children and random bystanders. Today the same thing occurred with an unknown, assumed to be a couple thousand, handheld radios also exploded.
A number of questions should arise for us at this moment; the implications of this for future conflict, the fact that a mass war crime was just committed, the fear this creates for anyone that crosses a state and uses electronics. But, before getting into all that, we need to talk about how this would have had to be done.
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Tom Nomad
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