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Speaker 1: the events of September twenty twenty four where pagers were
Speaker 1: remotely detonated allegedly by Israeli Mussad during a Hesbla gathering,
Speaker 1: and also ICOM radios were detonated and exploded during a
Speaker 1: Hesbela funeral, there's been some new facts come to light.
Speaker 1: ICOM makes a public statement and I wanted to respond
Speaker 1: to some of the comments that you guys made. Let's
Speaker 1: go so long story short. Watch this video here I
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that Icon was in the news
Speaker 1: some radios that were labeled ic V eighty two, a
Speaker 1: radio which is more than twenty years old in its
Speaker 1: original design and has been out of production since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: so ten years, ten years. This radio has been out
Speaker 1: of production. Some of these radios were used, they were
Speaker 1: tampered with, and they all exploded at the same time,
Speaker 1: or at least a lot of them did as bombs.
Speaker 1: That is a Hesbela gathering during the Israeli Hesbela war
Speaker 1: that's going on in the Middle East right now. Almost
Speaker 1: called it a skirmish. Okay, some people might get mad
Speaker 1: at that. There's a war going on in the Middle
Speaker 1: East right now. And ICOM has said that those radios
Speaker 1: were not true Icon radios that ICV eighty two apparently
Speaker 1: has been. There's been a lot of fakes out there
Speaker 1: for a long time. ICOM's got a page on their
Speaker 1: website that I shared in the last video that said, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is how you spot a fake. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of fakes out there. Ali Express Team, you Ali Baba
Speaker 1: something blah blah blah blah. Who knows where to get
Speaker 1: these things? Okay, anybody can make a radio and put
Speaker 1: whatever they name they want on it, especially if your
Speaker 1: government is doesn't have laws against such things. I'm just
Speaker 1: leave it at that right there. But ICOM came out
Speaker 1: and made a statement said these were not ours. And
Speaker 1: my point was I'm like, hey, that's great. That they're
Speaker 1: responding to it, but I'm like, I don't really care
Speaker 1: if they were or were not Icon radios. They were
Speaker 1: radios that were obviously tampered with and explosives added to
Speaker 1: the This was not just a battery that caught on
Speaker 1: fire all at the same time, on dozens or hundreds
Speaker 1: of these radios all at the same time. No, this
Speaker 1: was a planned attack. So it was an explosion that happened.
Speaker 1: Many of them happened at the same time. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me if it was Icon or anybody else,
Speaker 1: because these were tampered with after the fact, and they're
Speaker 1: a ten year old or a radio that's been out
Speaker 1: of production for ten years. But it's really good that Icon,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of faced the bull head on as
Speaker 1: it were, so right here three days ago at the
Speaker 1: time of this recording. Regarding the current media reports, this
Speaker 1: is from Icomamerica dot com. We have confirmed from interview
Speaker 1: footage reported by the Lebanese media around nineteen hundred on
Speaker 1: September eight seven PM. On September eighteen, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: the following comments from mister Johnny Corn, the Lebanese Minister
Speaker 1: of Communications, the radios that have exploded were not authorized
Speaker 1: devices by Lebanon's Ministry of Communications. Normally we would only
Speaker 1: allow imports after type approval of the General Security Directorate
Speaker 1: and Intelligence Directorate. They were not imported through a distributor either,
Speaker 1: the reason being that the model number of the radio
Speaker 1: involved is no longer being manufactured by the manufacturer Icon Inc.
Speaker 1: We also know for certain that the counterfeit radios are
Speaker 1: of the same model number and being imported from other countries.
Speaker 1: There is growing concern that telephones and other devices may explode,
Speaker 1: but there is no danger of this with officially imported products.
Speaker 1: Officially imported products in other words, products that are legal
Speaker 1: to be imported from the proper manufacturer into Lebanon. Okay. Therefore,
Speaker 1: the Lebanese authorities have established and indicated that the exploding
Speaker 1: radios were not our products. Okay, our distribution system for
Speaker 1: products of overseas markets, so they go through here. This
Speaker 1: is ICOM speaking again. We have established an export program,
Speaker 1: the ICOM Security Trade Control Program, based on the provisions
Speaker 1: of the Security Export Control Regulations, and we export our
Speaker 1: products for overseas markets under a strict management system until
Speaker 1: they reach our authorized distributors. All the radios we manufacture
Speaker 1: are asigned to serial number. When we receive an order
Speaker 1: from an overseas authorized distributor, the product is shipped from
Speaker 1: our manufacturing subsidiary, Waikiyama kom Company Ltd. A Rita Factory
Speaker 1: and Kinwa Factory Waikayama Prefector. The products are delivered to
Speaker 1: the authorized distributors by Forwarder, a company that handles the
Speaker 1: transportation of goods. We keep track of all the information
Speaker 1: related to the transportation companies involved in the process, including
Speaker 1: the means routes used by linking to the serial numbers.
Speaker 1: In addition, it is not confirmed with serial number product
Speaker 1: will be sold to which end user until the time
Speaker 1: of sale, of course not Therefore, it can be considered
Speaker 1: that virtually impossible, that it is virtually impossible to target
Speaker 1: radio equipment used in a specific end user to the
Speaker 1: distribution channel of our authorized distributors. Okay, and it goes
Speaker 1: on for a little bit more. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: read the whole thing to you, but right here this
Speaker 1: little paragraph regarding the radios that exploded, the only way
Speaker 1: to determine the radio that exploded was not an Icon
Speaker 1: product is to actually physically check one of the damaged devices. However,
Speaker 1: upon coalition, with the multiple content of information that has
Speaker 1: come to light so far, such as the fact that
Speaker 1: the radio did not have a hologram stick or attached
Speaker 1: to HA as reported in the second update and the
Speaker 1: above comments, we believe that the possibility that the radio
Speaker 1: that exploded was an Icon product is it extremely low.
Speaker 1: So there we go. I will link this news report
Speaker 1: and this is just from Icom America's website. I will
Speaker 1: link this in the description blow. You guys can go
Speaker 1: check that out read more for yourself. Another article that
Speaker 1: came out that I found after I recorded my last
Speaker 1: video says Japanese firm Icon says exploding walkie talkies were fakes.
Speaker 1: And then it goes down to you know, that's just
Speaker 1: kind of the title. It's a clickbait title. It's a
Speaker 1: clickbait title. This is not my it's not my website.
Speaker 1: This is Aurora Israel dot co dot dot co dot
Speaker 1: IL And after the title, the first paragraph says Japanese
Speaker 1: telecommunications company ICOM has said that it is extremely unlikely
Speaker 1: that it's walkie talkie models were used in the explosions
Speaker 1: that targeted numbers of a SHEA terrorist groups HESBLA in
Speaker 1: Lebanon last week, So that's another article right there. So
Speaker 1: spoiling walkie talkies were fakes, and even in their official
Speaker 1: statement they heard they said that the fact that it
Speaker 1: was an Icon, well, the possibility that was an Icon
Speaker 1: product is extremely low. Like I said in my last video,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care. I can understand if I
Speaker 1: was Icon, I'd probably be saying the same thing. I
Speaker 1: don't blame them for saying for taking the stance. I
Speaker 1: just don't think it matters because the radios were of
Speaker 1: obviously tampered with. They were not factory radios. They were
Speaker 1: tampered with after the fact. They were not faulty batteries
Speaker 1: that caught on fire or exploded all at the same time. No,
Speaker 1: this was a coordinated attack. So it's obviously the radios
Speaker 1: and those pagers from the previous day were something that
Speaker 1: were tampered with prior to the explosion, but after the fact,
Speaker 1: ten years after ICOM stopped making the radio even if
Speaker 1: they were not fakes, which it looks like they were. Now,
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Speaker 1: Prep for supporting this channel. Now onto some comments. I
Speaker 1: got some really cool comments, some comments that I did
Speaker 1: not agree with, some comments that were very good. So
Speaker 1: I welcome all your comments. Even if I don't agree
Speaker 1: with you, I'm not asking you to agree with me.
Speaker 1: I still want to hear what you have to say,
Speaker 1: so thank you for commenting, all of you. Katie seven
Speaker 1: JVR says. According to Josh, these radios were purchased at
Speaker 1: Ali Express. That right there leads me to believe they
Speaker 1: were counterfeit. And then Josh actually commented. He said, I
Speaker 1: said I found them on Ali Express, not that they
Speaker 1: were sourced from there. So these radios are available in
Speaker 1: multiple places Ali Express, I think team you has them.
Speaker 1: You can probably find them all over eBay. In fact,
Speaker 1: one commenter said, hey, I bet there'll be a flood
Speaker 1: of them on eBay. Now maybe I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't looked I have not looked at that, so uh
Speaker 1: hopefully not. Don't don't don't go buy what unless it's
Speaker 1: being shipped from inside the United States. Don't go buy
Speaker 1: one on eBay right now? This one's good right here.
Speaker 1: I really like this one, Major Kong, great name dude. Okay,
Speaker 1: who cares if they were fake or not? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Hams And I said the ICV eighty two was a
Speaker 1: ham radio. Explain why we shouldn't care. So, whatever niche
Speaker 1: or hobby or group you're in, if your product was
Speaker 1: used for something nefarious, wouldn't you have something to say
Speaker 1: about it? If there was bombs planted in fishing reels
Speaker 1: that were shipped all over the country and detonated at
Speaker 1: the same time, wouldn't the fishermen using those reels and
Speaker 1: the fishing real manufacturer when they have something to say
Speaker 1: about it? If BLO punked this car stereo company, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they're still around. Bombs went off
Speaker 1: or exposively went off inside of a blow punked stereo
Speaker 1: would wouldn't you want to say something about it? If
Speaker 1: you were a fan of block punks? How I got
Speaker 1: one of those in my truck. But it's never come on, man,
Speaker 1: give me a break. They were Ham radios made by Icon,
Speaker 1: one of our best radio manufacturers. It's it's something we're
Speaker 1: gonna Yeah, you should care, You should care. I'm saying
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I care if they were fakes or not.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying it doesn't matter what the end result
Speaker 1: is the same. It doesn't matter one way or the other.
Speaker 1: So this one was This had a lot of comments
Speaker 1: on it before I got to it. So that's why
Speaker 1: I've got it so small on the screen right now.
Speaker 1: One commenter said, nobody is asking how they made them explode, Like,
Speaker 1: what's more likely they intercepted the order of radios put
Speaker 1: explosives in them, or all radios have this ability to
Speaker 1: have their batteries explode through some sort of remote circuitry,
Speaker 1: and ultimately all of us with this type of comms
Speaker 1: equipment could be targeted in the same way. And some
Speaker 1: people commented down here he's like leading theory, right. The
Speaker 1: first comment says, leading theory is that they were manufactured
Speaker 1: with built exposed as part of device's motherboard. That's just
Speaker 1: a theory. Well, I can tell you right now if
Speaker 1: that's If that's the case, then they were fake. They
Speaker 1: were not legit Icon radios if that was the case.
Speaker 1: But my comment down here at the bottom says, I
Speaker 1: personally think they were tampered with and that the explosives
Speaker 1: were added after the fact, so tragedalyly that they were
Speaker 1: Icon radios or fake radios with an Icon name on
Speaker 1: them though, so that was kind of my only My
Speaker 1: comment to that is that it doesn't really They weren't
Speaker 1: manufactured this way. Somebody tampered with them after the fact,
Speaker 1: and that's why I say it doesn't really matter if
Speaker 1: they were Icon or not, because somebody messed with them
Speaker 1: and planted these explosives on purpose. And along those lines,
Speaker 1: somebody else competed. Jason, you missed the most important thing
Speaker 1: all the pages were remotely detonated at the same time.
Speaker 1: GSM technology made it easy. The h t's were also
Speaker 1: remotely detonated across the country at the same time. Clearly
Speaker 1: they were sold with the most sad mod mosad mod
Speaker 1: and I reply to say it, I'm pretty sure that's
Speaker 1: what I said. If I wasn't clear about it, I apologize,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's my point. They weren't exploding. They weren't
Speaker 1: faulty batteries that were exploding. Okay, the batteries the Samsung.
Speaker 1: By the way, some of you commented it was a
Speaker 1: Samsung Note seven that had the batteries that would not explode,
Speaker 1: but they would randomly catch on fire. But that wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen to every Note seven, all at the
Speaker 1: same time. So the fact that they were all exploding
Speaker 1: at the same time, that's what makes me say they
Speaker 1: were tampered with after the fact. This one here is
Speaker 1: this may be in poor taste, but I laughed at it,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to include it. Apparently they were trying
Speaker 1: to call SEQ contest on a work band. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Yeah, okay, it's a bummer that the
Speaker 1: handheld amateur radios have a bad image from this, you
Speaker 1: can imagine the knee jerk overreach to ban them and
Speaker 1: other handheld radios from airlines. My response was the first response,
Speaker 1: and I said, I don't think there's a bad image here.
Speaker 1: These radios have been out of production for more than
Speaker 1: ten years and have obviously been tampered with. And then
Speaker 1: the original comment or replied and said, I agree, there
Speaker 1: shouldn't be if you take the time to look at
Speaker 1: the facts. I worry that few people who aren't fully
Speaker 1: in the know can make uninformed decisions. And I said,
Speaker 1: that kind of uninformed thingking exactly how the mainstream media
Speaker 1: still exists today. Yeah, yep, that's all I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: about that. There we go. Why is the media so
Speaker 1: quick to jump in and blame the manufacturers for misdeeds
Speaker 1: of people? Like you said, trying to blame a gun
Speaker 1: manufacturer or a radio manufacturer for these acts is completely wrong.
Speaker 1: They need to stop with the sensationalism of an already
Speaker 1: terrible situation. And my reply was exactly thanks for commenting.
Speaker 1: Several people said that the gun analogy wasn't a good one.
Speaker 1: I just wonder what planet they are living on. And
Speaker 1: I stand by my statement on that. In fact, along
Speaker 1: those lines, this was one of the first comments I
Speaker 1: got about the gun analogy. This analogy is ridiculous. A
Speaker 1: gun is a deadly weapon by design of radio not
Speaker 1: so much. And my response was, regardless of what the
Speaker 1: tool is made for, And yes, a gun is a tool.
Speaker 1: If you use it incorrectly or modify it, that's not
Speaker 1: the fault of the manufacturer. And that was really my
Speaker 1: only point for saying anything about the gun analogy in
Speaker 1: my original video. But I am a second supporter and
Speaker 1: I do not apologize for that. This channel is not
Speaker 1: about the Second Amendment. It's not about politics, it's not
Speaker 1: about the Constitution. But I will say I am a
Speaker 1: Second Amendment supporter. Very very rarely is the gun the
Speaker 1: bad guy in most gun stories in the news. It's
Speaker 1: usually the person behind the gun that's a bad guy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, don't blame the gun, and don't blame the
Speaker 1: radio that had explosive planet in it after the fact,
Speaker 1: ten years after it was out of production, or that
Speaker 1: was a fake radio that had the wrong name on it.
Speaker 1: All right, in this guy here, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: share this guy's name. In fact, I had to go
Speaker 1: look him up. I wouldn't share exactly who he was.
Speaker 1: He's a fellow YouTuber, not someone I know, not someone
Speaker 1: who's ever been on my channel before. I'm not really
Speaker 1: into public shaming, so I don't want to share his
Speaker 1: name and his channel. But he said, sorry, Jason, but
Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with the hobby we all love. Really,
Speaker 1: even though I comes in it interesting interesting point. It's
Speaker 1: called writing the story, and I'm sad to say that
Speaker 1: it does little else other than to demonstrate the chase
Speaker 1: for views. Want everyone viewing my videos. I don't apologize
Speaker 1: that I make videos to chase views. I don't apologize
Speaker 1: for that. If I was on here talking about some
Speaker 1: sort of news story in the news that was a
Speaker 1: hot topic that had to do with maybe a gun story,
Speaker 1: maybe a mass shooting, that had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: radio at all, then maybe this comment would make sense.
Speaker 1: But this was literally Icon Japan in the news for
Speaker 1: radios that were supposedly made by them, but it looks
Speaker 1: like they probably weren't. It was literally Icon news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you totally missing the point there, bro. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to tell you. I'm a YouTuber creator to a
Speaker 1: small channel, but I could never countenance countenance making a
Speaker 1: video about a subject which has very tenuous link to
Speaker 1: the hobby. I have no skin in the Middle East
Speaker 1: conflict and just wish everyone would get along in the
Speaker 1: Ham radio spirit. That I agree with you on that point,
Speaker 1: but especially given the circumstances and consequences, I can only
Speaker 1: say sorry, but I feel this sort of video is
Speaker 1: quite cynical. Three and my response was I think a
Speaker 1: little bit professional. Well, you run your channel the way
Speaker 1: you want to and I'll do the same, then we'll
Speaker 1: both be happy. Deal question Mark. And then he replied back,
Speaker 1: and he said one hundred and ten percent he'd let
Speaker 1: it go. And then the last comment I got was, yes, Jason,
Speaker 1: you tell him so. Yeah. Literally, icon is in the news,
Speaker 1: but it's not about Ham Radio. I don't get that.
Speaker 1: And I don't apologize for wanting people. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't apologize for chasing views. As he put it, I'm
Speaker 1: chasing views inside of the Ham radio sphere that we
Speaker 1: all live in that we all are associated with one
Speaker 1: another in Okay, And I've said it before. I said
Speaker 1: it in a live stream just not too long ago.
Speaker 1: I make Bowfang videos and they get tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of views in the first four or five days. Three
Speaker 1: four days, I make a video about a IC seven
Speaker 1: oh five. The very first video I made about the
Speaker 1: IC seven o five after I got it in my possession,
Speaker 1: got like twenty five hundred and three thousand views in
Speaker 1: the first four or five days. Why seven oh five
Speaker 1: is much better radio than a bowe fang is okay?
Speaker 1: So why? And I still I can make a bowfang
Speaker 1: video today and it had ten thousand views in the
Speaker 1: first three or four days. Why. Well, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Opinions of why vary, but you know what, You know
Speaker 1: what that tells me. When I get so many views
Speaker 1: on a bowfang video and not so many views on
Speaker 1: another video about another topic, about another radio, that tells
Speaker 1: me that you want to watch bowfang videos. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm making videos for you guys, for my audience, for
Speaker 1: my subscribers, my watchers, my viewers, my commenters, for you.
Speaker 1: If you didn't watch it, then I probably wouldn't make
Speaker 1: a video about a second one again. I probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: make a video about that topic again, or that model again,
Speaker 1: or that subject again. But I am following what you
Speaker 1: guys want to see and I love talking about it
Speaker 1: because it's Ham radio. It's all fun to me. I
Speaker 1: don't care. So what do you think about this latest
Speaker 1: these latest updates from Icon themselves? What do you think
Speaker 1: about the ICV eighty two? What do you think about
Speaker 1: some of these comments, because there's a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: A lot of you commented, a lot of you commented
Speaker 1: that was I just took those screenshots in the first
Speaker 1: like the second or third day. It's been more than
Speaker 1: a week now that I'm recording this new video, So
Speaker 1: comment below, tell me what you think, and uh, hopefully
Speaker 1: we won't see Icon in the news in a bad
Speaker 1: light any again anytime soon. Check out these videos over here.
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