Posted on 08/04/2020 3:26:20 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
This is a munitions plant going off on Obamas watch at 2 AM on a Sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCDHiMSxkQ
We have tons of Lebanese and Syrian Christians here.
We have tons of Lebanese and Syrian Christians here.
Ahh thx for the update.
Bkmk
Do you think Muslim terrorists would take OSHA safety training seriously?
Maybe a safety stand down day.
My late grandfather, who was in the Army, was stationed in Beirut in the 50’s as an attache. My Mother went to an American school there for a while. Her memories of the region was simply always saying how magnificent it was and then came Islam filth years later.
The orange smoke is consistent with ammonium nitrate burning.
“At 8:12 am , small rolls of kelly green smoke and orange smoke are shooting up from the ship...” City on Fire by
Bill Minutaglio pg 77 Texas City explosion 1947
Anyone got that 'world's smallest violin picture?
2.7 kilotons of ammonium-nitrate produces nothing like 2.7 kT of explosive yield. Actually, as a measure of explosive energy one kiloton is exactly one-billion calories, the kiloton moniker is merely a convenience. The explosive energy of ammonium nitrate is 230 cal/gm which would make 2.7 kilotons of ammonium-nitrate equivalent in yield to about 0.62 kilotons.
https://www.nature.com/articles/195277a0
I am extremely skeptical of the “ammonium nitrate” explanation. The more plausible explanation is that the warehouse was a Hezbollah ammunition depot, and that that ammunition was intended for Israel. Unless they could divert it to use against U.S. troops in the area.
A ton of ammonium nitrate has a yield of .23 kilotons.
Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. A famously pleasant and beautiful city. Then came ...
Next time you might want to store it out in the desert somewhere, not a major city. The Bekka Valley maybe?
No, as other posters have already pointed out, the whole point was to store it in populated areas which the Israelis would not attack.
Reverse psychology? So, how did that work out for ya?
I noticed the Lebanese prime minister, in his initial address on the catastrophe, called the victims "martyrs", which kinda gives the game away.
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