“It seems to me more likely that Beirut authorities ordered the ship next to the ammonium nitrate warehouse in case they had to offload it.”
Yea, I’m thinking they were trying to unload it also. But why sit there so long? One theory (only conjecture on my part) was that they could have been warned that an ‘accident’ might happen if that ship started to unload, since it’s obviously where the explosives were heading. Then it became a stalemate and maybe they forgot about the warning, or didn’t take it seriously.
More likely the ship was placed next to the munitions factory to supply fuel for the rockets. The explosion was the ammo dump not the ammonium nitrate.
The ship was the ammonium nitrate warehouse.
Jihad work accidents happen.