The real crime is why did the port authorities allow a fireworks to be stored right next door. That’s really dumb, yes?
It killed them dead?
That’s the worst way to kill them
In Jordon it registered as a 4.5 earthquake.
I am not buying this ‘fireworks storage’ baloney
What are the odds they were assembling a fertilizer bomb meant for Israel and it went kablooey?
The main grain storage facility was destroyed:
So lebanese authorities state that the explosives were confinscated from a ship in that port...if a nation, any nation wanted to bomb Beruit on the sly, send in a ship laden with explosives, let it be confiscated. Then, recruit a suicide bomber to touch that baby off, terrorist problem solved.
I thought that Ammonium Nitrate needed some type of other explosion, an initiator, to cause the Ammonium Nitrate to detonate. I’ve heard there were “fireworks” stored near the AN. Would fireworks really initiate an AN detonation? Something seems fishy about this whole thing.
Killing someone dead is apparently WAY worse than just killing them!
I thought the FEds killed Timothy McVeigh.
Before picture of the warehouse interior through doorway...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8595359/Lebanese-authorities-repeatedly-warned-danger-hazardous-chemicals.html
The triggering “device” appeared to be a large burn off of munitions prior to the 2kt blast. Golly, wonder who would stock a warehouse full of missiles, warheads, and ammunition in the heart of Beirut?
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=Uae&src=typed_query&f=live
And now there’s a big fire in UAE at a marketplace/industrial park. Also a large food warehouse in Najaf up in flames.
Lots of fire in the ME.