REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - 'Paging Hezbollah' Presents a New Look at a Fantastic Counter-terror Op
Some time back, terrorist goblins like Hezbollah stopped using cellular phones, presuming correctly that those could be tracked. If it was an Israeli aircraft with smart weapons attached doing the tracking, that could ruin a terrorists’ whole day. So, Hezbollah and groups like them went old-school, adopting pagers instead. But that didn't work out so well for them either; turns out that Israel was already several steps ahead of them.
Why did Hezbollah and similar groups switch from using cellular phones to pagers for communication?
Hezbollah and similar groups stopped using cellular phones because they correctly presumed those devices could be tracked, specifically by Israeli aircraft equipped with smart weapons, which could ruin a terrorist's day. Consequently, they adopted pagers as an "old-school" alternative.
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