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https://youtu.be/dtWvvjC4R6s From this angle, one can see and hear the fireworks exploding before the main powder magazine goes bang.
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Beirut is now a fireworks producer, huh? Or they could buy from China for next to nothing. I have a problem with the "fireworks" narrative.
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Fireworks? "I don't think so Tim"
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Fireworks? "I don't think so Tim"
No schit. lol
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"Fireworks"? Yeah, right.
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I just read that there were some large ammunition dumps in that area.
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Fireworks come in different styles. That boom wasn't the product of celebration fireworks.
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Retired cat herder.
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Yikes!
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If dem's fireworks, their VFW hall must be a rockin' bunch of guys.
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Just read a report that there was a benzene storage facility at that spot. RS
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Interesting. Expansion like a sonic boom in the right conditions. Vapor front obscuring the flame front.
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[quote=steve4102]Fireworks my ass. .......... Beat me to it.... I'm guessing some military ammo storage facility or some other kind of military ordnance.
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Wonder what Mossad knows about all that..?
May never know.
For sure, if they actually are involved...
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Looks like a high order explosion to me and I’m not sure fireworks could go high order.....
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"Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General Security, said the explosion might have been caused by highly explosive material that was confiscated from a ship some time ago and stored at the port. Local television channel LBC said the material was sodium nitrate." Pulled that off of FoxNews website. Sounds like a fire got out of hand and got into some fireworks, and the other material was ignited.
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Looks like it was as explosive as that fertilizer plant explosion in Waco a few years ago.
Twern't no bottle rocket warehouse.
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Mustafa don’t cross the red wires with the black wire....Too late. 😬😎
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They say everything happens for a reason. For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
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Death toll will probably be in the hundreds, if not thousands.
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