On September 23, 2013, a ship from Moldovia traveling to Mozambique has to stop in the Port of Beirut due to technical problems. Upon customs examining the cargo, the vessel is forbidden to leave the port. Eventually, the cargo, 2,750 pounds of Ammonium Nitrate, is transferred to a nearby warehouse/silo near the dock, sitting there for more than half a decade. Flash forward to 2019 where Hezbollah now controls the ports, and can essentially bribe or threaten officials into looking the other way while they smuggle military goods through the port. Having taken control of the air fields, the northern ports are essentially in the hands of both the secular/moderate parties and Hezbollah. Then that ammonium nitrate massively explodes to the Northeast of downtown Beirut, taking out the port authority, which is under the control of the secular customs administration that has been targeting Hezbollah. Everyone points fingers at all the probable suspects that blow things up in the region, but circumstantial evidence strongly supports an accidental explosion.
Ammonium Nitrate explosion, a gargantuan one. The red color of the cloud is indicative and typical. News has stated 2750 Tons of it. That's roughly equal in explosive force to 1155 tons of TNT. Sooner or later cities are going to figure this one out. Having large quantities of ammonium nitrate stored at pier-side, the bulk of the city right u against the port is a seriously not good idea. Especially when you leave it there for years and years and sort of forget about it.
Exactly ammonium nitrate used to produce fertilizer it contains nitrogen. That is the same stuff that Timothy McVeigh used to blow up the government building in Oklahoma.
How is that any difference than here? Companies want to do business, both companies and workers don't want to drive a long way to go to work, places like this explode regularly, some highly volatile plants are right next to schools large housing tracts. Places like Port Neches, Texas, or corroded natural gas pipes in California for recent explosures around schools and homes, and many others and all of massive failures that allowed the disasters.
Enjoy the moment, I was speculating, like most of the planet in the next couple hours, that's why I started my post with these words......(ya ready???)... "Rumor has it" Enjoy every little ''victory'' you can imagine. Do you think storing 2,7550 or so tons of a potential high explosive in a port since 2014 was a good idea? (you did not think this out much, didja?
Oh I saw those three weasel words, alright, but it was The Fat Back who promulgated the dumb 'rumour' here.
Should I get mad and triggered now so you can bait and report? Rumor is spelled "rumor" but I'm enthralled I have a fan, thanks!!!
I read consumer grade has "long" contained elements rendering it, non explosive. It's highly regulated after McVeigh.
Maybe MSNBC can call it a gentle explosion. Look where the Lebanese decided to place this thing. Those civil engineers are right on the ball.
Yes. Only the USA drops the 'u' out of words like 'rumour' and 'colour' etc etc. We have one instance down here of an exception with our 'Labor' Party, your Democrat equivalent. To work manually is to 'labour' down here.
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Mac You can keep the singing goat.