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Gold Apollo says it did not make pagers used in Lebanon explosions reuters.com

sixtram4 months ago

Turned out it's a small Hungarian company at Budapest. Their website went silent this morning.

rasz4 months ago

Hungarian company looks like standard clandestine front operation, inconspicuous safe house included https://nitter.poast.org/putintintin1/status/183631708830817...

rurban4 months ago

Looking through the European yellow pages, that would be either the French BAC, a Citroen Service shop with Arab ties, or an Italian BAC, a wholesale goods transporter. All the other European BAC companies do fit much less

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meepmorp4 months ago

I think someone in IRGC and/or Hezbollah is compromised and modified pagers got substituted in a delivery much further down the chain than the factory.

egberts14 months ago

Hope that Taiwan Gold has an ironclad contract in which to sue BAC with.

lysp4 months ago

It's a fake shell company

egberts14 months ago

Evidently, considering that it was manufactured in Hungary.

aaron6954 months ago

One would think counterfeit or re-branded is a strong possibility.

No one has matched the ones that exploded to a real product yet.

The Twitter photos are AR-9<damaged> there might be a better picture that has AR-924 but no one has found the stickers and fonts to match yet.

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