Lebanon Explosion

[Traxion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmZg3A0tFw

This was 120# of Tannerite. The explosion was heard 60 miles away. Perfect scenario with a pretty sealed structure. They underestimated how long it would take to clean it up, was a major PITA driving around the field picking up pieces of bin. I simply cannot imagine what 2750 tons of it would be like!

 

[NDSportsman]

Probably not a good idea to store that much ammonium nitrate in one location......;:;badidea

 

[feather_duster]

can you get a few of those in Portland??

 

[ELLS]

 

[Migrator Man]

Not sure why they would have that much stored there and why the government would know that and not make sure it is secure. Does Lebanon even have that much use for fertilizer or was that ammonium nitrate there for hezbolah to make bombs? That fertilizer is heavily regulated if not totally banned from most countries because it can be made into bombs. Who is still making it and why was it being stored there? The world uses Urea for fertilizer because of these hazards.
This really isn’t adding up......

 

[eyexer]

I’m sure the government knew full well it was there. And I would guess it was theirs lol

 

[Obi-Wan]

here is what they are saying

https://www.businessinsider.com/bei...rate-was-impounded-in-2014-reports-say-2020-8

The ship had been sailing from Georgia to Mozambique with ammonium nitrate in September 2013 when it had technical difficulties that forced it into the port at Beirut, the summary said.
After an inspection by Port State Control, an arm of the International Maritime Organization, the ship was forbidden from continuing its voyage.
"Shortly afterwards the vessel was abandoned by her owners after charterers and cargo concern lost interest in the cargo," the Baroudi & Associates summary said.

Baroudi & Associates said it took on a legal case to force authorities to let the ship's crew go home "given the 'dangerous' nature of the cargo."
"Owing to the risks associated with retaining the ammonium nitrate on board the vessel, the port authorities discharged the cargo onto the port's warehouses," the summary said.
The summary was published in 2015 by The Arrest News, a newsletter from a Spanish maritime-law firm called Ship Arrested. Both the newsletter's editor and the law firm confirmed the account as being from Baroudi & Associates.
As of the summary's publication, the cargo and the ship remained in port.

 

[eyexer]

That would make sense

 

[guywhofishes]

the clerics arranged for this "dangerous shipment" to be kept in Lebanon for handy dispersal on an as-needed basis

 

[SDMF]

Was the explosion strictly to blow up the explosives, or was there something else in that building that needed getting rid of?

Pallets of cash? Stores of precious metals intended as payment? Servers full of bit-coins? (I really have no idea how those work)? Tons of opium/heroine? Some sort of armament? Centrifuges for enriching uranium, (Iran had some of those explode 4-6wks ago)?

 

[fireone]

Hezbollah.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...will-not-escape-blame-for-blast?sref=kyF8UQ5E

 

[guywhofishes]

Hezbollah is a creation of the “peaceful Muslim” clerics.

 

[snow]

dumbass jockies,above ground nuke test,somehow Trump will be blamed

 

[Ruttin]

 

[Shockwave]

Looks like they got themselves a new fishing hole.

 

[westwolfone]

dumbass jockies,above ground nuke test,somehow Trump will be blamed

Last night news said they had fireworks stored in the same facility.

 

[Ruttin]

Last night news said they had fireworks stored in the same facility.

The news...hahaha good one!

 

[gone_fishing]

 

[SDMF]

Last night news said they had fireworks stored in the same facility.

Here's everything you ever needed to know about the "News" and their search for truth vs. "scooping" the competition:

 

[Mort]

Whether its true or not, after what I've read on this. You have someone welding in a building with Fireworks and ammonium nitrate in the SAME building....uh hmmmmmm thats a big big big no no, they don't seem be very safety conscious hory shet. and this is the end result.....just unbelievable, sad. Just cannot get over the fact somebody would be this stupid. Then again, we don't know all the variables, I'm sure something was left out of the equation.