Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers

• evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Militants specifically use these pagers for security and stealth. Everyone else just uses phones.

  It’s a brilliant way to target only combatants, and also expose them to their friends and neighbours. This attack is incredibly disruptive with very little collateral damage compared to alternatives.

  And yes, it’s terrorism, an attack meant to inspire terror and disrupt communication networks with a chilling effect much larger than the actual damage. However it’s interesting as unlike most terrorism it does not target civilians.

  It’s also terrifying to think we are living in a world where a malicious component attack is a legitimate concern. This is one of those moments that change the world - I’m sure every industry is thinking about the danger of their foreign supply chain right now.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh so everyone there who had a pager must have been a bad guy. Got it, solid logic. Can’t wait for the war to spread further.

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    unlike most terrorism it does not target civilians.

    Also, unlike most of the IDF attacks.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To take this to it’s logical extreme, how do you feel about assassination attempts on high ranking Nazi officials? They’re non combatants, after all.

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• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And I’m sure Islamic State and the Taliban have non-combatant elements too.

  I don’t mind Israel defending against militant groups that fire rockets into Israel. I do mind them carpet-bombing civilian populations. This pager-thing seems to have the hallmarks of an operation that manages to cripple Hezbollah with a minimal loss of life and even fairly low civilian casualties. I much prefer Israel do this over the alternatives.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As does america have non-combat elements too.

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US army does indeed, and they would be valid military targets. People working for the EPA, perhaps not so much. Hezbollah however is structured towards support for the militant arm, as the Lebanese government handles civilian tasks.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well it seems its up to the attacker to decide what is considered valid military targets. Al Qaeda viewed 9/11 as a valid military target.

        Indiscriminate killing is always bad, no matter how targeted you think it is. In this case it was mass maiming, oh and a few kids died right? That’ll teach em to stop being bad people won’t it!

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