Interesting but still implies accidental and not military unless you want to say Russia sailed the ship in to blow it up.
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.
“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.
The dates (in this story) seem mixed between today (August 2020 when the explosion occurred from explosive mixtures stored in the warehouse) and July 2014) when the ship was confiscated.
Clearly, the ship was registered and the cargo purchased and shipped by a Russian-Ukrainian criminal group (possibly supported by Putin’s, while Obama-Biden-Clinton-Kerry were in charge of national security!) trying to get the nitrate to a terrorist group in (????) via Syria-Lebanon.