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The exploding pagers that reportedly wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists came within 3 days of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist group’s attack on an American embassy.
On September 20, 1984, a Hezbollah terrorist drove a Chevy station wagon fitted with diplomatic plates and Soviet rockets at the US embassy in Beirut and detonated it, wounding the US ambassador and killing two Americans, Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch and Petty Officer First Class Michael Ray Wagner, while wounding five other Americans.
The Biden-Harris administration marked the 40th anniversary of the Hezbollah attack by dispatching Amos Hochstein, its envoy, to pressure Israel into turning over land to Hezbollah in exchange for some temporary quiet. A previous Hochstein deal saw Israel turn over gas fields to Hezbollah only to see the terror group launch thousands of rockets at northern communities in Israel. 60,000 Israelis have been displaced by these attacks and cannot return home.
But the Biden-Harris administration decided that the best way to honor the hundreds of Americans killed by Hezbollah, including the 220 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983, the brutal torture of Colonel William R. Higgins, who had his tongue pulled out and was castrated before being dumped in front of a mosque, and Navy diver Robert Stethem who was beaten to death on TWA Flight 847, was by demanding that Israel surrender to the terrorists.
But the Israelis have been settling not only their scores, but our scores for us.
In 2008, an Israeli car bomb took out Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, who had been among the monsters jumping up and landing on Stethem’s body.
“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” a stewardess on the hijacked plane described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”
Mughniyah had been attending an Iranian reception celebrating the Islamic takeover of the formerly free nation, only to find that his car’s tire had been loaded with explosives. The reported joint Mossad-CIA operation was also the last hurrah before the Obama takeover and the beginning of a new D.C. policy of appeasing Iran while undermining the Jewish State.
Fuad Shukr, Mughniyah’s close ally and a top Hezbollah figure, had been responsible for the Marine Barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others, as well as the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 where Stethem was brutally murdered by the terrorists.
Iran marked the 40th anniversary of the Marine Barracks bombing in October with over 170 attacks on American military personnel across the region. The Biden-Harris administration tried to talk tough, launched a few airstrikes and then backed down. Israel however did not.
After a Hezbollah attack on an Israeli soccer field killed 12 kids, Shukr, who still had a $5 million reward on his head from the State Department for the Marine Barracks bombing, was taken out by an Israeli airstrike.
The Israelis had infiltrated Hezbollah’s communications system and placed a call asking him to go up to the 7th floor of the building where he had been hiding out to escape detection.
He did and never left again.
After Shukr’s death, Hezbollah accelerated its shift away from high-tech communications and toward pagers. Cellphones were banned in favor of pagers. The terror group began performing spot checks to see if its terrorists were carrying phones. “Today, if anyone is found with their phone on the front, he is kicked out of Hezbollah,” a Reuters story claimed.
“Abandon your phone, disable it, bury it, lock it in a metal box, for a week, two weeks, a month,” Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had warned his terrorists. “Allah knows how long this situation will last.”
Replacing large numbers of phones with pagers however created its own security risk.
The wave of pager explosions that swept through Beirut near the 40th anniversary of Hezbollah’s attack on our embassy should have come from us, but it likely came from Israel.
The Israelis had targeted Hezbollah’s communications system to cripple the terror group’s operations, first infiltrating the hardwired fiber optic landlines set up for it by Iran, then its cellphones and now its pagers. Each attack has forced Hezbollah to retreat from high speed communications methods and to move further toward a dependency on human couriers.
The couriers carrying code words for the day are hard to crack but slow down any response. Forcing Hezbollah to use medieval means of communications will make it difficult for the terror group to operate across long ranges, to coordinate with its masters in Iran and with other members of the Islamic terror network including the Houthis in Yemen and the militias in Iraq.
The pager attack represents the single most devastating targeting of an Islamic terror group in history, taking out hundreds of its personnel and crippling its communications. It’s also a long overdue payback for Hezbollah’s attack on the U.S. embassy some forty years ago.
On September 20, 1984, Hezbollah struck in a Christian area of West Beirut where the American embassy had relocated after the Iranian-backed terror group had bombed the previous embassy location, killing 17 Americans, and kidnapped, tortured and killed other Americans.
The embassy was under the protection of the Christian Phalangist militia members who would later be sold out by D.C. diplomats in pursuit of a deal with Islamic terrorists. Together with the American military personnel and the British ambassador’s security, they tried to stop the car bomb before it hit the embassy. Bullets hit the Islamic terrorist driving it, he fell over, the car bomb turned and blew up before it could hit the embassy and kill hundreds of people.
The blast still blew a massive crater and left rubble everywhere. The British ambassador, who was visiting, was buried under debris and had to be dug out. Two Americans were killed.
A torn part of the American flag from the embassy was brought home to Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth Welch‘s mother who was one of the dead. Welch had volunteered for duty in Vietnam where he earned a Bronze Star. He had been friends with some of the American hostages taken in Iran and had tried to recover MIAs while on duty in China. His last medal was a Purple Heart.
Israel is not just fighting its war against Islamic terrorism, it’s fighting our war too.
On the 40th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attack against the American embassy in Beirut, the pager attacks that devastated Hezbollah settled not only Israel’s score, but ours as well.
Israel may be fighting Soviet America’s war, but America is not fighting America’s war. WE have become a wholly evil nation. The 2nd assassination attempt against Pres. Trump proves that.
The second attempt on President Trump does not indict the entire nation, just the democrats, the usual suspects.
Thank you. Common sense and calm.
What makes this operation so ENJOYABLE is that the Muslims were blown up by their status symbols.
This operation was a wonderful twist on the ethics of the 1960s.
Exploding Status Symbols ~
William Burroughs would have approved ~
If Harris steals her way into the Presidency, she will probably air lift as many Hezbollah terrorists into America as possible. But we will know who they are – the Muslims with no right hand after today’s pager bomb explosions – chalk one up for the Israelis – I love it when evil gets a taste of their own medicine – this puts fear into the terrorists every time they think about picking up an electronic device.
You’re assuming the Hezbollah terrorists aren’t here already…
Israel is the Nation that took out most of those involved in the Munich Olympics incedent the Entebie Airport ended up killing lot of terrorists in the end and ended all those Hijackings
If a person could stand on top of a roof and look down and watch all
the pagers explode – it would be like watching firecrackers go off. Very
apt because just thinking about those pagers exploding on Hezbollah
fiends makes me want to celebrate. The fact that the explosions can
also represent revenge for all those Americans tortured and murdered
by Hezbollah makes it even better.
Everyone lazily assumes Israel was behind the pager explosions, which is pathetic. Israel has had one off planted explosives in foreign countries before but this doesn’t have the hallmarks of the Israelis. I’ll tell you why, Hezbollah became so paranoid about using cell phones that they stop their members from communicating with them. So then someone is appointed to come up with an alternative solution for communicating electronically between members; the idea of pagers is the solution. If Hezbollah is paranoid about cell phones, do you really believe they would put someone in charge of purchasing thousands of pagers and then immediately distributing them among selected members? No way in hell – Hezbollah is paranoid at this point, so some party within the organization had the task of examining each and every single pager for planted listening devices and implanted explosives. Whoever had that task lied and then gave the greenlight to distribute all these pagers.
This was an inside job and most likely is part and parcel of an internal power struggle. These things do happen you know, just look at the Nazi Party’s internal purge that has gone down in history as ‘The Night of The Long Knives’. Where Hitler ordered his SS to kill all the leaders of the SA (also known as The Brownshirts). Look at Saddam Hussein’s 1979 televised purge, where he called a meeting of the Ba’ath Party and unsuspected members found themselves guilty by Hussein’s accusations and then he had them shot. Even look at the Democrats for their bloodless coup of preventing Biden from running for President again and installing Harris without an open convention. Internal political struggles are as old as the Rome Empire, nobody should be shocked that these pager explosions in Lebanon was an inside job. Maybe there’s a contingent within Hezbollah that no longer wants to act as Iran’s lapdog. Who knows but logically and logistically the pager explosions have the hallmarks of an internal power struggle.
Great points! Excellent insight.
No, the problem with your theory is that you can I identify who are the parties to the purported power struggle and the nature of the struggle. Nasrallah is as powerful in Hezbollah as the Ayatollah is in Iran.
Israel did this. What is unknown consists of the original manufacturing location shipping routes of the pagers. There have been food shipments from Cyprus to the US dock that was constructed in Gaza. If the pagers were shipped to Cyprus (the Greek half of the island) Mossad could either have worked on them there, transferred them temporarily to Haifa, or to the Gaza dock. Shipping the altered pagers to Lebanon from nearby Cyprus would be a piece of cake.
I read earlier today (did no record the source) that Israeli operatives had learned of he shipment of the new pagers, somehow intercepted them and doctored them. Seems a small amount of some explosive paste spread inside near the battery could be made to explode when a certain signal was received and processed by the pager. We now know a what time that signal was sent…… as do a number of hurting mozzie terrorists.
Absolute genius, executed to perfection. A smll measure of justice was meeted out today. WILL they “get the message”? I doubt it….
despite americas hollow threats to terrorists none of which is true , israel is now doing what america has failed to do . terrorists love death so they tell us , oblige them at every opportunity . wherever and whenever by all means possible . america has funded the terrorists for years and now they cant or wont control them and believe that they can placate them with endless meetings and cash which tells you they know nothing about islam and the koran . they will pay the price for their duplicity . bring them to their knees and then shoot them . their is no dealing with terrorists .
Brilliant operation.
Especially brilliant if they were able to explode the lithium batteries with some kind of software or hardware hack.
MOSSAD intercepted pagers enroute to hellzbullshita and other terrorists and packed them with explosives — brilliant — are there more pagers out there waiting for the call from MOSSAD?
I hope so.
Mossad has now broadcasted Yoko Ono over Hezbollah’s radios, and so THEY have exploded too! ~
Check out Yoko’s YouTube music video entitled “War Zone”
Current word is that ALL such devices have been abandoned or destroyed.
They have now gone retro, returning to cumbersome unreliable live couriers. Talk about a baseball bat shoved into the front wheel of a bicycle traveling at a high rate of speed……
…and it continues with the walkie talkies exploding. Israelis are brilliant! Love what they did.
2 things.
Thank you for mentioning those prior incidents and providing the reader with such graphic details. Similar to the post-October 7th media coverage, few Americans ever got a chance to understand the true barbarity of how jihadists fight.
Second. This whole pager-turned-IED concept would make for an AWESOME movie or maybe even an episode on Paramount’s SEAL Team TV series. But I bet Hollywood would ban such real-world payback.
(oops, a third thing) It’ll be interesting to see if the Biden Admin retaliates against Netanyahu, et.al. for making Hezbollah (ipso, facto, Iran) look so bad.
To tell you the truth, I would not be surprised to learn that the CIA was a party to this. Mossad and CIA have partnered before and this is sophistocated enough to be another collaboration.
wrt your “third thing”, Bibi would care not a fig. He has a nation to run and protect. He is trying to ACT presidential and DO what Chiefs of State DO. BINI takes his job seriously. (unlike……)
Important article. Many people have forgotten these actions. The nerds in DC don’t care what it is they are told to do as long as they get their check. Most kids under 30 have been programmed to love muzlims by their paid for professors..
I second that: Truly a brilliant operation!
And now for the score that was never settled: the November 4, 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Iran. This year marks the 45th anniversary, by the way.
WHEN are they going to say that KIDS WERE VICTIMS: “Israel killed and wounded women and our innocent school children who were using the pagers to keep in contact with their mommies and daddies! Suddenly, in the playground with our children learning Jihad, in Jihad uniforms, pagers were going off. Other innocent children were watching cartoons on how to kill Jews.” New York Times: “Israel attacks children!”
WHY DID I WRITE THIS? There were two IDF soldiers/male/female that gave a speech here at the University of NM. About thirty people showed but about five were protesters. The female IDF started with a video by a Palestinian Human Rights group with Jihad camps for kids. “This ensuring another generation of hate towards Israel and Jews.” They showed a seven-year-old with a large gun and a bullet necklace that was shooting at the IDF: “Now a legal combatant.” The IDF killed him. THE NYT REPORTER went up to the body, took his gun and necklace: “ISREAL KILLING CHILDREN!”
VIDEOS DON’T LIE and with a whole speech of FACTS, the protesters sat quietly which only a month before, they “MIC-CHECKED” NONIE DARWISH and tried to shut down her speech about women being abused in Islam and a FATWA put on her. A few weeks later, the same people were protesting for International Women’s Day. They were ranting about American women being abused. I went up the group and explained what these people did to Darwish and her personal testimony of REAL ABUSE, BEATINGS, and the Honor Killings “ALLOWED IN ISLAM’S SHARIA LAW!” They left the protest but then that summer, they went to Gaza to teach them about GLOBAL WARMING! ??? lol
Thank you. I used to observe such tactics back in the 1960’s. People like you are our eyes on the ground.
Biden is the end of a long chain of feckless bureaucrats who take a trick-or-treat attitude towards terrorism. They think of it more as a bunch of kids soaping their windows that any real threat to lives and property.
I’ve stopped altogether thinking of the U.S. (much less it’s “president”) as the leader of the “free world” whatever is left of it.
That honor now belongs to Israel.
All one needs to know about Joe Biden is that he was opposed to killing Osama bin Laden, the murderer of 3,000 US citizens and visitors. An unparalleled incompetent and coward.
Israel has shown how exceptional it is. The US regime has shown how corrupt and inept it is.
The USA should be issuing a big formal thank you to Israel for taking out the terrorist responsible for killing Americans 40 years ago. But alas, the US is currently busy and preoccupied with trying to get Israel to surrender (ceasefire for political correctness liberal extremists) in gaza and hissBOOla in the north.
Israel turns Hezbollah into Hezballs-less.
If these asshelmets wanna live in the 7th century, then they can’t have 21st century technology.
MOSSAD intercepted pagers enroute to hellzbullshita and other terrorists and packed them with explosives — brilliant — are there more pagers out there waiting for the call from MOSSAD?
I hope so.
Hilarious slapstick cartoon animation comes to my mind – hellzbullshita running around – ditch the cell phone for pagers and pagers send them dickless and balless to their 72 virgins that now they can do nothing about – a jihad demonic circus
Karma is real and MOSSAD is the bomb – whoops see what I did there
MOSSAD is a blast — ooops
USSS needs to be more like MOSSAD if that is possible – crack teams
Thank you Daniel!!
Appeasement to terrorists always results in innocents being murdered or tortured.
Heartfelt ❤️🇮🇱thanks to Israel for standing up to evil and making them begin to pay for what they did in Beirut 1984 to Americans🇺🇸 and in fighting them now for Israel.💥
Why do people persist in believing that letting these snarling, rabid dogs in the Middle East out of their cages will end in anything other than death and mayhem? I have NEVER been able to understand this STUPIDITY!!!😡
Let these concessionary cowards become their dog food…perhaps when your lives are DIRECTLY on the line, you will learn that psychopathic terrorists salivate when you show weakness and strength is THE ONLY THING they understand. The innocent should STOP PAYING for your refusal to face this brutality.
Am Yisrael Chai!
thank you, I appreciate that
Daniel,
All of us who care about life are deeply indebted to you for your unrelenting pursuit of the truth.
You provide us with tools to stay sane and be responsible in addressing and countering the evil surrounding us. In difficult times, truth is the most powerful weapon we have and it is because of you and others that this available to us.
Gabrielle
What happened in Beirut yesterday and today was a failure to communicate,,to quote a great movie line
wrt your “third thing”, Bibi would care not a fig. He has a nation to run and protect. He is trying to ACT presidential and DO what Chiefs of State DO. BINI takes his job seriously. (unlike……)
“Cool”!!
I tried just posting this but it said its too short…. so….
The pager attack was clever, just not lethal enough for many of the Hezbollah swine. If they would have all been in their front pockets and blew their genitalia away, that would have been fitting response for Higgins.
We hear you. The next round will be mounted in sheep and goats.
People are cheering this, get ready for ww3…
Absolutely brilliant, Mossad, so far ahead of any other intelligence agency. No wonder, the world enjoys the groundbreaking tech that comes out of Israel. Israel doing the western world’s dirty work in getting rid of the terrorists, and yet they keep penalising Israel. It is almost like world leaders would like nothing more than being conquered by Islam. We will have to save ourselves because or leaders will sell us down the river
Have the terrorists at the islamic terror organization CAIR responded? I’m hopeful that they get their electronics from the same suppliers. Who wouldn’t want to hear a chorus of Ka-Da-BOOMs coming from their offices and bedrooms??!!
The terrorist who looked at the pager, had their hand and eyes blown.
The lazy ones who did not bother to look, lost their dicks as the pager exploded in the front pocket.
ISLAM is the CULT OF DEATH, HATE and TERRORISM. Their rabid dog came back and bit them. But not hard enough!