Explosion in Beirut

[E4 No More]

6 minutes ago, Garufa said:

I wonder if it contributed to the blast.  Those things blow up too.

I know. We had a couple of them blow-up in Kansas City when I was much younger. I read somewhere were it was mostly empty, and stored 85% of Lebanon's grain.

Edited August 5, 2020 by E4 No More

[Omega]

1 hour ago, bersaguy said:

I wonder what the 3 guys were doing in that picture of them at the warehouse before the explosion. It was never explained what they were doing there. Could they have been terrorists planting a device that detonated the stuff from remote position after they got a good safe distance away?

I think those guys were photographed sometime before the explosion, probably around 13' or 14' when it was first confiscated.

1 hour ago, E4 No More said:

I'm surprised a lot of the grain storage building is still standing when it was that close to the blast.

Maybe it's like the atomic bombs in Japan that left structures standing at GZ, the last went up and out.

48 minutes ago, Garufa said:

I wonder if it contributed to the blast.  Those things blow up too.

Maybe, they did say they were mostly empty, which may be worse as a full one doesn't explode, it's the dust in the air.

[TGO David]

I believe this explains the water plume from the explosion...

[leroy]

Keep your eye peeled right here...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/massive-explosion-rocks-beirut-port-fireworks-or-hezbollah-weapons-depot//#more

Somebody is sendin a message.

Watchin leroy...

[E4 No More]

53 minutes ago, TGO David said:

I believe this explains the water plume from the explosion...

Personally, I doubt it. The blast could move water to the ocean side of the building, but the cloud had water vapor all the way around it. You can tell by the video shot from the aspect showing the other side of the grain storage building. Also, Ammonium Nitrate makes a lot of water when it explodes, so the vapor cloud makes sense. JMHO

[gregintenn]

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

[Grayfox54]

In that one video that appears to be taken from up high in a building, if you look closely at the bottom of the smoke cloud, just before the explosion, you will see fireworks going off. 

[E4 No More]

23 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

I saw a video yesterday shot from the inland side of the explosion similar in angle as Dave's after picture. It showed what looked like fireworks going off in the fire right before the explosion. They were the crackly kind of mortar fireworks that would be hard to mistake for something else. It clearly wasn't a terror attack to me. Fireworks burning near stored Ammonium Nitrate is perfectly plausible. 

Edited August 5, 2020 by E4 No More

[AuEagle]

43 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

Whatever it was you're correct, It was really impressive.

[Capbyrd]

1 hour ago, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

I haven't seen any credible news source with information that it was a terrorist attack.  

It wasn't a fireworks factory but the warehouse that burned could have easily had fireworks in it.  A fire started in warehouse 9 of the port area.  It spread to warehouse 12 where the ammonium nitrate from an abandoned ship had been stored since 2014.  I posted a pretty detailed account of that debacle a few posts back.  

[Omega]

16 hours ago, Capbyrd said:

I haven't seen any credible news source with information that it was a terrorist attack.  

It wasn't a fireworks factory but the warehouse that burned could have easily had fireworks in it.  A fire started in warehouse 9 of the port area.  It spread to warehouse 12 where the ammonium nitrate from an abandoned ship had been stored since 2014.  I posted a pretty detailed account of that debacle a few posts back.  

I agree, this would not be a good target for a terrorist or military attack, though as it turned out, it did a lot of damage, IMO it didn't take out any important high value target.

[Capbyrd]

1 hour ago, Omega said:

I agree, this would not be a good target for a terrorist or military attack, though as it turned out, it did a lot of damage, IMO it didn't take out any important high value target.

Nope.  And the death toll isn't high enough given the amount of damage.  Terror attack just doesn't add up.  Government negligence and ineptitude makes all of the sense in the world. 

[Lumber_Jack]

I'm sure it was nice and stable after long term storage in cargo sacks

 

[gregintenn]

Now it is being reported that this could have been a bomb.

 

[Garufa]

9 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

Now it is being reported that this could have been a bomb.

 

By who?

[gregintenn]

2 minutes ago, Garufa said:

By who?

Russia Today. I know, I know! I will say they are usually more accurate than CNN or MSNBC.

[Erik88]

18 minutes ago, Garufa said:

By who?

Hannity says it's most likely Antifa. They traveled over from Portland. 

[The Big Guy]

On 8/5/2020 at 4:34 PM, gregintenn said:

Here's a perfect example of why I believe nothing the media produces.

So far, I've heard at least 3 explanations...a fireworks factory, ammonium nitrate from Russia, and a terrorist bombing.

I doubt any of them are correct.

It was a quite impressive sight, however!

I guess they started hiring weathermen... 

Edited August 8, 2020 by crake
double entendre

[xsubsailor]

 I realize that this was a tragedy and many people died or were hurt but sometimes I just can't help myself.

 

[Johnny Rotten]

1 hour ago, Garufa said:

By who?

CIA

remember

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings

payback!