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.
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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