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.
What eva, it go Boom
this is lebonon
How long till inflamed youth by radical Imams... in Lebanon will blame the “zionists”?
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Nope. Grain silos, too. /s
With that blast wave and plume, it looked like a tactical nuke.
No EMP. Not a nuke
“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.
Earlier today I was asked what I thought about Beirut. I said he was the best slugger in baseball!
“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.
Lebanon is essentially a puppet state of Iran though.
Looked just like West Tx to me
I think the locals there, the regular folks, are already blaming Israel/U.S.
That’s a lotta virgins
“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.
IMHO it was self evident that this was some sort of weapons cache.
Fireworks does not go BANG like THAT !!
Alleged weapons depot. Anecdotal explosions.
/MSM
France’s turn now
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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.
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