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Al Arabiya: Beirut Explosion was a Hezbollah Weapons Depot
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 08/04/2020 3:26:20 PM PDT by EyesOfTX

At least 70 people have now been confirmed to have been killed, with over 3,700 injured as the casualty toll continues to mount from the massive explosions that rocked Lebanon’s capital of Beirut on Tuesday. The explosions took place at the city’s shipping port, and the cause is still under investigation.

Many residents with views of the port began using their cell phone to take video of a massive smoke plume that was being caused by hundreds of smaller explosions coming from a warehouse along the docks. Videographers miles away were then rocked when a massive explosion devastated the area immediately around the port and broke windows up to 15 miles distant.

Immediate speculation centered around the likelihood that the warehouse from which the hundreds of smaller explosions emanated may have been filled with fireworks, and that those explosions then caused a ship also loaded with fireworks to explode. But Al Arabiya reported late Tuesday afternoon that the warehouse was actually an arms depot for the terrorist group Hezbollah, which unfortunately essentially runs the national government.

VDO.AI

Government officials claimed the depot held “explosive materials” that had been seized by the government in recent years. From a report at the New York Times:

“Highly explosive materials,” seized by the government years ago, were stored where the explosions occurred, said Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s general security service, according to the National News Agency.

President Michel Aoun later confirmed that explosive substances were held there. Neither of them said what those materials were, but General Ibrahim warned against getting “ahead of the investigation” and speculating about a terrorist act.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab said in a televised statement, “Facts on this dangerous depot, which has existed since 2014 or the past six years, will be announced.”

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Here are photos and a video taken of the port shortly after the explosion:

Here is a compilation of various citizen videos taken of the incident:

Pray for the people of Beirut.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: abbasibrahim; ammoniumnitrate; beirut; fakenews; hamas; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; jerusalem; jordan; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; mediabias; qasemsoleimani; syria; trump; trumpwinsagain; waronterror
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To: EyesOfTX

What eva, it go Boom


21 posted on 08/04/2020 3:48:19 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special: Half Baked: 50c)
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To: rigelkentaurus

this is lebonon


22 posted on 08/04/2020 3:49:22 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: All

How long till inflamed youth by radical Imams... in Lebanon will blame the “zionists”?


23 posted on 08/04/2020 3:49:25 PM PDT by Marinario
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To: HollyB; All

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=Beruit&src=typed_query

https://mobile.twitter.com/im_Indra07/status/1290730378009796608


24 posted on 08/04/2020 3:49:28 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: fhayek

Nope. Grain silos, too. /s


25 posted on 08/04/2020 3:49:31 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Shark24

With that blast wave and plume, it looked like a tactical nuke.


26 posted on 08/04/2020 3:51:08 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

No EMP. Not a nuke


27 posted on 08/04/2020 3:54:41 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Steely Tom

“2.7 kilotons”

Well, it would be 2.7 kilotons if it were 2700 tons of TNT. ANFO is only about 80% as powerful as TNT, so more like 2.2 kilotons.


28 posted on 08/04/2020 3:55:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EyesOfTX

Earlier today I was asked what I thought about Beirut. I said he was the best slugger in baseball!


29 posted on 08/04/2020 3:56:14 PM PDT by stuckinloozeeana
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To: EyesOfTX

https://twitter.com/i/status/1290678696395911169
OMG...


30 posted on 08/04/2020 3:57:59 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: EyesOfTX

“Highly explosive materials,” seized by the government years ago, were stored where the explosions occurred, said Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim,


Highly explosive? I would have never guessed that.


31 posted on 08/04/2020 3:59:23 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Chickensoup

Lebanon is essentially a puppet state of Iran though.


32 posted on 08/04/2020 4:00:36 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: carriage_hill

Looked just like West Tx to me


33 posted on 08/04/2020 4:00:58 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special: Half Baked: 50c)
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To: Marinario

I think the locals there, the regular folks, are already blaming Israel/U.S.


34 posted on 08/04/2020 4:02:49 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: EyesOfTX

That’s a lotta virgins


35 posted on 08/04/2020 4:06:28 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: HollyB

“2700 tons Ammonium nitrate in 2nd blast.”

If it was sodium nitrate (as another report indicated: https://www.wsj.com/articles/lebanon-struck-by-blast-at-beirut-port-11596556605 ), I’m guessing it was propellant for the manufacture of rockets and missiles - a specialty of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.


36 posted on 08/04/2020 4:08:58 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: EyesOfTX

IMHO it was self evident that this was some sort of weapons cache.

Fireworks does not go BANG like THAT !!


37 posted on 08/04/2020 4:11:27 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: fhayek

Alleged weapons depot. Anecdotal explosions.

/MSM


38 posted on 08/04/2020 4:17:30 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: 2banana

France’s turn now
...


39 posted on 08/04/2020 4:24:29 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Boogieman

I think Lebanon has been showing some signs of independence recently. Maybe the Iranians wanted to take them down a notch.

They were very proud of their rebuilt downtown, which of course is a ruin now. In one photo, I saw the interior of a new shopping mall, where young women in modern clothes were bleeding and sobbing...or crushed under display cases or lying dead in the aisle. Very, very sad.


40 posted on 08/04/2020 4:27:57 PM PDT by livius
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