Posted on 08/07/2020 8:02:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Lebanese President Michel Aoun says there are two possibilities behind Tuesday’s blast — either negligence or “external intervention” by a missile or a bomb.
Aoun said Friday that he asked France for satellite images to see if there were warplanes or missiles in the air at the time of the blast.
The blast is believed to have been caused when a fire touched off 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored at the port since it was taken from an impounded ship in 2013. The cause of the initial fire is not known.
Aoun told journalists that he received information on July 20 about the stored material and “immediately ordered” military and security officials to do what was necessary. He did not elaborate. He said several governments in charge since 2013 received warnings about the material.
He said the investigation is concentrating on 20 persons. He rejected an international investigation into the blast, saying that it will make us “lose the truth.”
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Makes sense.
Negligence is present in any case. Don’t store millions of pounds of high explosives in a strategic location (your main port) in your capital city.
Captain Obvious is President of Lebanon. Who knew??
“Aoun told journalists that he received information on July 20 about the stored material and “immediately ordered” military and security officials to do what was necessary. He did not elaborate. He said several governments in charge since 2013 received warnings about the material.“
Some military or security official realized he had to use or lose his megabomb?
Big government is quite useless. Even in America, Obama and Cuomo both failed to stock up on virus response necessities. Politicians are idiots.
Raise the “terrorism” possibility to deflect from the sheer incompetence and stupidity of leaving a seized cargo of dangerous ammonium nitrate in a common warehouse, in the literal center of commerce of your country - for 7 years!
Aoun said Friday that he asked France for satellite images to see if there were warplanes or missiles in the air at the time of the blast.
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The US may have that kind of ability, but I don’t think France does.
There was clearly a fire prior to the explosion. There were clearly aerial explosions visible and audible prior to the explosion in close proximity to the warehouse.
Bulk ammonium nitrate can explode when exposed to fire.
This is what happened in West Texas albeit on a much smaller scale. It has happened previously and it will happen again because people do not take storage precautions and zoning seriously. The idea that Hezbollah would get rid of a material that is the most common oxidizer for improvised explosives is laughable. They controlled the port and they control Lebanon.
It’s the middle east, gotta always leave “the Joos” as an option.
Warplanes didn’t deposit all of the ammonium nitrate into the warehouse six years ago and he knows it. The Lebanese president is just playing to the crowd, which in Beirut includes Hezbullah, to see if he can gain something politically or financially from the tragedy. The whole reason the fuel for the explosion was there in the first place was because of negligence and corruption. Someone didn’t want to pay a bribe to get the cargo released, so there it sat.
Do not fool yourself. France has imaging satellites. Seeing an aircraft is not particularly challenging for any imaging satellite. Identifying the aircraft, who knows.
I suspect this will remain as murky as the Seth Rich murder.
it was at the will of their pos allah want it ?
so be it
That’s my read on it as well.
So he's ruled out aliens?
I’m sure the massive grain elevator next to the ammo dump had nothing to do with it...
AN is not a “high explosive” in the technical sense. It has explosive potential when stored improperly & exposed to fire. Multiple examples have been cited in this thread & elsewhere.
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