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A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up

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Summary
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67% Informative

Two large-scale, coordinated attacks this week rocked Lebanon and Syria .

The tactic of turning an electronic gadget into an explosive device is not unprecedented.

The U.S. Army manual describes a World War II -era booby-trapped communications headset.

In 1996 , the Israeli Security Agency used a similar technique to detonate a small charge of explosives near the ear of Hamas bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash .

U.S. voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel ’s illegal occupation of the West Bank , East Jerusalem , and Gaza .

The National Guard has known about dangerous lead dust at armories open to the public for years .

VR Score

53

Informative language

44

Neutral language

28

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

65

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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