[Delta 21]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/lebanon-pm-hassan-diab-on-beirut-blasts-2-750-tonnes-of-ammonium-nitrate-exploded-2274291

Who / why stockpiles over 6 years of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in a busy seaport, next to a fireworks factory?

[Bookshelf]

The Pentagon got it wrong. Again.

[robowombat]

Not saying it wasn't sabotage, but this is the Middle East where incredible carelessness in handling dangerous substances is the norm not the exception. Definitely an Alfred E Neuman culture.

[calico_thompson]

Who / why stockpiles over 6 years of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in a busy seaport, next to a fireworks factory?

Why, there may be a famine and a need to grow crops. Who, the peaceful Bedouins trying to eke out a quiet, pastoral existence. Also, ammonium nitrate is more stable than dynamite and more accessible in A-bomb quantities than TNT.