Mike Baker

Well, absolutely.

Now, a series I hosted for Discovery Network called Black Files Declassified featured an episode on less-than-lethal weapons, including long-range acoustic devices, or LRADs.

What's not known is whether this type of weapon was deployed during the Maduro capture.

Sonic weapons can be used to incapacitate targeted crowds or individuals, but whether the military would decide to use such a weapon during such a dangerous operation rather than rely on lethality, well, that's not known.

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It's Monday, the 12th of January.

Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, new reporting from Iran indicates coordinated state violence against protesters, with the regime shutting down the Internet nationwide to conceal the scale of their crackdown.

Later in the show, Hamas claims it's ready to dissolve its governing authority in Gaza under a U.S.

brokered plan.

But, as you might imagine, key details on governance, enforcement, and timing remain unresolved.

Now, if you'll recall, Hamas also claimed for years, leading up to their 7 October 2023 attacks against Israel,