“Mr. President, I think we’ve found one of Saddam’s WMDs.”
Paging “Explosion spell!” girl...
Only 50?
There will be a lot more fatalities when they get the rubble cleared. Some of these buildings - apartment buildings and offices - were literally obliterated.
They haven’t even begun the body count, IMO.
That is, of the ones they could find.
I think we will never know the exact number of deaths. I suspect many at ground zero were vaporized. And the long term effects of the nitrogen dioxide and dust and other crap being inhaled.
Unless this is a very unpopulated area, and the workers in the area got the day off, I expect that casulties will be ten times this, when all is said and done.
“Officials said the city’s hospitals were filled to capacity.”
So, anyone that’s been hurt and isn’t in a hospital already, needs to quarantine for 14 days at home so they can flatten the curve.
*Rolleyes*
A previous shortage of bomb and missle technicians leading to an enormous stockpile of explosive materials.
They seem to celebrate July 4th a month or so late.
The blast was so loud that people could hear it in Cyprus.
Crikey!
Bad handling, the stuff should have been cut and moved
periodically. But hey, it’s happy where it was...unhunh.
A lot of AN industrial explosions over time so it
wasn’t unknown. just sloppy.
Trump said he has heard it was an attack..wait for the media to call this an accident because ya know how it is, whatever Trump says, they gotta say the opposite
“Facts on this dangerous depot, which has existed since 2014 or the past six years, will be announced.”
= = =
Just who has been drooling and licking their chops, planning and waiting . . . . . . ?
Meanwhile, proper military protocal stores their explosives in smaller quantities and at separated distances.
“Video taken by residents showed a fire raging at the port, sending up a giant column of smoke, illuminated by flashes of what appear to be fireworks. Local TV stations reported that a fireworks warehouse was involved.”
Yea right. You don’t film firecrackers going off from 5 miles away, as was the case with many of the videos. They look silly.
My thought is that The Jew (Bibi) is doing a bit of final ‘housekeeping’ before leaving office and having to hand the keys to a Leftist. He’s probably thinking that, as happens here all the time, that the country’s voters needs to ‘cleanse their guilt’ by having a Leftist in power, and then they’ll will FINALLY learn what that means (for maybe a decade, at best). During that time, he doesn’t want Israel being wiped off the map.
“The president of Lebanon said on Twitter that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was stored in a warehouse for six years without safety measures.”
Nice. No lesson learned from Texas City 1947.
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Lots of Lebanese Christians in our area of the country. Run some of the best restaurants, too. (That is, before the COVID)
MSM will say ISIS resurgence.
“Local television channel LBC said the material was sodium nitrate”
Rocket propellant.
Hizbollah facility.
There was a fire burning out of control there, when secondary detonations began occurring - then the Mother of All Secondary Detonations occurred.