Exploding walkie-talkies in Lebanon may have been made by Japanese firm

Interesting! It's great to see Icon Inc admitting they made the product before discontinuation in 2014.

Pagers now walkie talkies, whatever else anyone may say to ones responsible those are quite impressive works

Full panic mode even when it's not even their fault

https://www.icom.co.jp/news/8108/

Damn cheek sullying the name of a company by tampering with their products to do dirty deeds! Icom should sue the Israeli government!

I must say it is interesting to see a terrorist group complaining about them being terrorized.

"What's so great about it? What did they "admit"? Data

Some companies try to distance themselves from a problem as much as they can. But here Icom says the walkie-talkies are our discontinued product that's what is great. It's called ethics.

5 Innocent children were killed so far by these explosions. nothing " Great " about ending the life of a child regardless, It Is A Murder.

Not great trajectory. It will be copied and soon exploding microwave ovens, refrigerators, shoes, underwear, toothpast, iPhones etc

If your company manufactures knives for cooking and someone uses one of your knives to stab someone, it's hardly your fault.

If your company makes cars and someone uses one of your cars to run someone over, that's not your fault either.

Israel does have a policy of apartheid and ethnic cleaning and harmless playful children are not exempt. I wish they were, but to the Occupier, they are little animals bred from bigger animals. When you are condition for 40 , 50 years that these peoples are animals empathy can not be used in the same sentence with dead children.

@John-San They even discriminated against non-Ashkenazi dark-skinned (Mizrahi) Jews!

I must say it is interesting to see a terrorist group complaining about them being terrorized.

You missed the main culprit. They exploded these devices without 0 regard for civilians. This is a proof that the Jewish state of Israel is even more of a terrorist.

Not great trajectory. It will be copied and soon exploding microwave ovens, refrigerators, shoes, underwear, toothpast, iPhones etc

If this were Apple phones, or Microsoft branded laptops, they would sue Israel for reputational damage. Apparently solar panels have been exploding too.

Taking a company's everyday product and turning it into bombs is not remotely acceptable behaviour.

If your company makes cars and someone uses one of your cars to run someone over, that's not your fault either.

Yes, if someone uses a Casio watch in a bomb, it is not Casio's fault. We need to blame to bomb maker.

The bomb maker here is Israel.

An exploding walkie talkie battery killed 20 & injured 250 ??? That sounds quite odd. Had to be explosives unless I'm missing something here.

I must say it is interesting to see a terrorist group complaining about them being terrorized.

Are you referring to the eternal victims, israel?

The Japanese firm didn't make the exploding walkie-talkies. The explosives were added after the product arrived in the Middle East.

Floppy disc manufacturers better watch out with all this retro tech getting a revival for all the wrong reasons.

If your company manufactures knives for cooking and someone uses one of your knives to stab someone, it's hardly your fault.

If your company makes cars and someone uses one of your cars to run someone over, that's not your fault either.

But if your company makes guns and someone uses one of your guns to shoot and kill someone, it not only is your fault but the fault of all gun companies.

gokai_wo_maneku

The Japanese firm didn't make the exploding walkie-talkies. The explosives were added after the product arrived in the Middle East.

Thank you! I wonder why this obvious fact is missing from most of the discussions I have seen

They were able to plant so many of those rigged devices.

Most probably they knew the precise locations and can listen to the users' communications.

But why did they have to give up this invaluable advantage?

Something up so big they decided to preempt it?

Soon we will have copy cats rigging cell phones exploding on airplanes, cars exploding on highways, Solar systems exploding in homes and buildings, computers and laptops exploding in schools, coffee shops, offices, and homes, Gadgets of all kinds exploding in offices, homes and stores.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, it is much worse than the issue of guns and fire arms control,

This is Law Enforcement worst Nightmare, thanks to Israel.

Ian, Mossad decided to detonate the devices because they feared that Hesbollah were about to find out about them. I read that today.

Stewart Gale

Today 08:14 pm JST

Ian, Mossad decided to detonate the devices because they feared that Hesbollah were about to find out about them. I read that today.

Thanks.

Well that's a big enough reason I guess.

Were the devices long in their possession or just acquired?

They had been using them for a few months, I believe Ian.

Stewart Gale

Today 08:28 pm JST

They had been using them for a few months, I believe Ian.

Ah yes..

I was just thinking if the devices were in their possession for sometime then likely bugging devices too

Anyone want to bet the Hungarian firm that supposedly either made or sold the pagers under license from Apollo is an Israeli front company? Set up a front company, buy the rights to the Apollo pager design, produce them in Israel which has a capable electronics industry, add the explosives and then the front company sells them to Hezbollah. I would bet the walkie talkies were sold to Hezbollah through a similar arrangement.

More on the subject from Middle East Eye. Apparently the walkie talkie model involved in the Lebanon explosions have not been produced by the Japanese manufacturer since 2014 but the company says any new ones bought since 2014 are counterfeits. The company claims they have been taking legal action on this matter for some years.

MEE confirms my suspicion that the Hungarian firm was an Israeli front company and now a Bulgarian company controlled by a guy living in Norway has been identified in the supply chain of the exploding pagers.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hungary-bulgaria-taiwan-japan-lebanon-following-exploding-radio-pager-trail