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MASSIVE Explosion Shakes Lebanon’s Capital Beirut
Breaking 911 ^ | 4 August 2020 | Various

Posted on 08/04/2020 10:42:26 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi

Watch video below.....


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 4ththread; ammoniumnitrate; beirut; beruit; bomb; didyousearch; explosion; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; lebanon; terrorism
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To: caww

Yes, it does. Mushroom cloud and shock wave. Wow.


21 posted on 08/04/2020 11:05:30 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: caww

Looked like 5 or 6 other smaller fires in the area, and perhaps another smoke flume.


22 posted on 08/04/2020 11:06:50 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Texas Eagle

23 posted on 08/04/2020 11:06:57 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

24 posted on 08/04/2020 11:08:14 AM PDT by caww
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To: Erik Latranyi
Explosion + Beirut
25 posted on 08/04/2020 11:08:31 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Anybody claiming “credit” for the blast?


26 posted on 08/04/2020 11:08:35 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hiya kids, hiya, hiya!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

how close to Russian assets?


27 posted on 08/04/2020 11:08:37 AM PDT by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

bomb making facility accident

it does happen


28 posted on 08/04/2020 11:08:50 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: caww

I’ve never seen anything like this. The shock wave is phenomenal.


29 posted on 08/04/2020 11:09:00 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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30 posted on 08/04/2020 11:09:49 AM PDT by deport
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To: Erik Latranyi

Two new Taco Bell’s?


31 posted on 08/04/2020 11:10:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: basalt
word so far was it was a fireworks warehouse...

Do muslins celebrate the 4th of August?

32 posted on 08/04/2020 11:10:45 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: redcatcherb412

Do muslins celebrate the 4th of August?
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They may now ......


33 posted on 08/04/2020 11:11:40 AM PDT by deport
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To: Trumpnado2016

Bad falafel batch.


34 posted on 08/04/2020 11:12:37 AM PDT by Noumenon (The fight's on. Let's not lose.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Broad acreage around the blast blew through a lot of buildings like this....many injured.


35 posted on 08/04/2020 11:15:01 AM PDT by caww
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To: Erik Latranyi

Reports say hospitals nearby can’t treat injured because they’re so damaged.


36 posted on 08/04/2020 11:16:33 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: SE Mom

Blew out a vast swath of buildings....deaths surely and lots of injuries.


37 posted on 08/04/2020 11:16:39 AM PDT by caww
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To: Erik Latranyi

I’m no expert but that vapor cloud just prior to the explosion looks like a bleve to me.


38 posted on 08/04/2020 11:17:04 AM PDT by turfmann
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To: Erik Latranyi

Wow. That was a huge explosion. What was the building right next to it? Was it something people would be in or was it a bunch of storage silos? Incredible that it looked to still be standing. Really hope it was silos and not an apartment building or hotel or office building. Otherwise the death toll is going to skyrocket. Makes me think of the Texas City explosion in 1947. That killed at least 581 people and was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster


39 posted on 08/04/2020 11:20:02 AM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: Erik Latranyi

I just finished a book on the Halifax Harbor explosion of 1917 where a ship with 3,000 tons of high explosives detonated in the harbor. That video gives me a better sense of what the explosion must have looked like.

The book mentioned that it was the largest man-made explosion (however inadvertent) until the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.


40 posted on 08/04/2020 11:20:29 AM PDT by KamperKen
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