Unseen footage shows moment of Beirut explosion in 4K slow motion_(?)

https://www.newsflare.com/v ^ | 8/9/2020 | https://www.newsflare.com/v

[Steven W.]

Netanyahu told the world about those sites two years ago before the UN

[logi_cal869]

“You could clearly see the fireworks going off”

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Between that and the ammonium nitrate, it’s turned out to be a rather good cover story, hasn’t it???

[logi_cal869]

Or, as I have posited prior, rocket fuel and rockets in various stages of manufacture/storage for their indigenous manufacturing program. After all, they have to make it somewhere and a port building pretty much eliminates an Israeli strike, in consideration of contents.

“Fireworks” and the AN make for a pretty awesome cover story.

Then again, it “could” be just AN. /s

(if you listen carefully to the audio you can hear what sounds like rocket motors cooking off; fireworks don’t make such a sound).

[Hatteras]

Before the blast, the place looks like hell...

[libstripper]

Wondering.... could this have been the largest man made explosion ever? With the exception of nuclear explosions, volcanic eruptions, etc, I’m not aware of explosion greater. Anyone know of one?
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This one was about 2 kilotons, about 1/6 of the Hiroshima bomb. In WW I there was one in Nova Scotia that was about as big and another in Texas City, TX in that range. From what I’ve read this is one of the three or four largest non-nuclear explosions ever.

[Sans-Culotte]

Wow.

[Swordmaker]

I captured the following single frame, 1/30th of a second, exactly following the initial flash that was the initiating explosion. Note that the grain storage elevators just to the left of the fireball are approximately 150feet tall. Note also that the initial fire is approximately a block behind the fireball.

The signature spherical fireball is that of a coordinated timed detonation, not a connected series of detonations of Ammonium Nitrate bags/barrels/containers exploding. The fireball would be different for such a series of explosions, unless they were connected by detcord or timers. A few would be either delayed by seconds, or perhaps even minutes.

[Vince Ferrer]

I hope the videographer survived.

[bitt]

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[sport]

Mark

[Thud]

The only one since World War Two was Texas City - another ammonium nitrate explosion. Definitely Halifax in Candada during World War One, and possibly Port Chicago during World War Two. And possibly Pearl Harbor around 1944.

[freedumb2003]

>>But it sure was more than fireworks. The force of that blast was astonishing<<

By now pretty much EVERYONE knows it was 2,275 tons of ammonium nitrate offloaded in 2013 from a ship originally bound for an explosive factory in Mozambique.

Within 30 minutes of the blast the info about the nitrate was out, but at that time the conjecture was it was fertilizer.

[freedumb2003]

bfl.

Nice clean grab.

[matthew fuller]

So you are saying that the explosion was NOT an accidental ANFO explosion, but a deliberate, “coordinated timed detonation”?

[rlmorel]

Yes...I was the third poster in on that thread when it broke...the “fireworks” think just had the stink of a cover...

[Swordmaker]

So you are saying that the explosion was NOT an accidental ANFO explosion, but a deliberate, “coordinated timed detonation”?

It doesn’t look like it. It’s not just Ammonium Nitrate for sure. Highly doubtful it is “rocket fuel,” and even more doubtful it is separately packaged either of those. Something else went up.

When someone makes a ANFO bomb, they wire the detonators and time them to go off simultaneously, timed to go off exactly at the same moment, so the blasts are a single explosion. Each bag/barrel has it’s own detonator. The builder doesn’t rely on chance that each will go off by proximity to another explosion. If this were “accidental,” that’s what had to have happened... each merely detonated due to proximity to the next. That doesn’t result in a cohesive spherical fireball such as we see in the footage. None of them would be likely to detonate in so coordinated a manner.

[Swordmaker]

So you are saying that the explosion was NOT an accidental ANFO explosion, but a deliberate, “coordinated timed detonation”?

Ammonium Nitrate by itself is neither explosive nor easily burned. It has to be mixed with an accelerant, such as fuel oil before it becomes dangerous. When it does, watch out. It is both flammable and explosive. . . But it requires a detonator of some kind.

Ammonium nitrate is commercially available both as a colorless crystalline solid and processed into prills for specific applications. Soluble in water. Does not readily burn but will do so if contaminated with combustible material. Accelerates the burning of combustible material. Produces toxic oxides of nitrogen during combustion. Used to make fertilizers and explosives, and as a nutrient in producing antibiotics and yeast.

I have a problem with the idea this was “fertilizer” . . . First: Sitting around in storage since 2013 right next to the very humid port. Such storage for a hydrophilic chemical such as AN would tend to make it far less dangerous. Secondly, Ammonium Nitrate only becomes explosive when it is mixed with a combustible material which when ignited can disassociate the Nitric Oxide in the Ammonium Nitrate (an oxide) providing the oxidizer which vastly accelerates the combustion. How does 2,750 tonnes of fertilizer get properly mixed with sufficient combustible material, such as 6% fuel oil (165 tonnes, 330,000 liters), to make enough to form the right mix, just “sitting there” abandoned for seven years??? How and by whom did the AN get mixed with FO or some other fuel, even molasses can be used. As mentioned, ANFO usually requires a “booster” explosive such as dynamite to detonate. Something SMELLS to high heaven about that scenario.

[Texan4Life]

Thanks for the link.

Here’s one for you:

Italian Explosives Expert: The Beirut Blast’s Massive Red Cloud is Indicative of Lithium Metal Which is a Propellant in Military Missiles — IT WAS AN EXPLOSIVES STORAGE FACILITY

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/italian-explosives-expert-beirut-blasts-massive-red-cloud-indicative-lithium-metal-propellant-military-missiles-explosives-storage-facility/

https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1292475515308310530?s=20

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