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From:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53656220

Officials are blaming highly explosive materials stored in a warehouse for six years.

President Michel Aoun tweeted it was "unacceptable" that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was stored unsafely.

Bruce

Holy moly that was a big firecracker

that tall bldg must have been built pretty well. imagine being in that when the blast went off.

Fox News said it was munitions, seized from ships, stored in a wharehouse

The orange cloud looked typical of nitrous oxide generated from ammonium nitrate, nitric acid.

WTF storing munitions at a port long term!

I was in Dar Es Salaam in 2011 when the munitions dump went up (for the third time!) out near the airport. From a distance the air blast was impressive, but nothing like that Beirut blast would have been.

Stored that much ammonium nitrate for 6 years in a Port zone with lots of traffic? Sounds legit.

Spin or fact?

Interesting.

DF

Looking for a 1 800 Mossad number....

DF

I swear you can see that tall building swaying immediately after the big blast..

Wow that twernt no firework explosion. Damn that was a big kaboom! Had to be a bomb to shut down the port and hurt them financially. Looks like all warehouse were desrtroyed for at least a mile

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the fire was set, or deliberate.

Having that much highly explosive material in one place just has to be tempting to the opposition..

Quick.. Hide the body parts.

2750 tons of explosives? That's about 15% of the Hiroshima bomb.

That secondary was impressive. I just consider it more paybacks for our Marine barracks bombing, even almost 40 years later

Da Joos did it.

#Mossad

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...or, maybe to destroy potential trails leading back to Obama / Clinton administration's under-the-table deals?

"No Achmed, not the red wi....."

Or 270 MOAB bombs.

Three kiloton explosion.
In a major population center just WOW.

There are a bunch of Muzzies would like to accomplish same in a few western cities.

That’s a concrete silo. It may be standing now, but I bet there’s enough structural damage we don’t see and they’ll have to tear it down.

I just read that it appears to have been many tons of agricultural fertilizer that were stored in a warehouse there. If so, was it old fertilizer that became unstable or did it have some help igniting?