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pbiggar[dead post] ◴[] No.45955566[source]
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AlexandrB ◴[] No.45955590[source]
Are you suggesting this software will somehow be able to make a phone explode? The pagers weren't just normal pagers with malware, I'm pretty sure they were loaded with actual explosives.
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1. pbiggar ◴[] No.45955796[source]
I added more context above to clarify the point I was making (which I thought would be self-evident, but I guess it was a bit more obscure than I thought)
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2. dralley ◴[] No.45957777{3}[source]
If you define "casualty" as suffering some ear pain or a minor scratch, then sure.
3. jameshilliard ◴[] No.45958251{3}[source]
> 2. The vast majority of casualties were not mythical "terrorists", they were ordinary pedestrians.

This is simply false, virtually every single spicy pager casualty was part of a terrorist organization.

> 3. Regardless this is still considered a war crime, and is by definition a terrorist act because it was not targeted. When they launched the attack they had no knowledge of where each pager was.

It was highly targeted in reality, spicy pagers were sold exclusively to the terrorist organizations for use on the terrorists communication network. It's arguably one of the most highly targeted attacks in history in terms of enemy to civilian casualty ratios.

4. GuinansEyebrows ◴[] No.45958401[source]
> spicy pagers

what a disturbing infantilization

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5. jameshilliard ◴[] No.45961009{3}[source]
> what a disturbing infantilization

Would you prefer it be called Operation Grim Beeper?

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