Posted on 08/26/2020 2:08:35 PM PDT by rktman
Since the devastating explosion of a store of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port on August 4, Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets in shock, outrage, and grief.
Above all, they have demanded answers: Where did the nearly 3,000 tons of explosive chemicals come from, and who owned it? Why did the rickety ship that brought the hazardous material to Lebanon end up stranded in the city’s port in late 2013? And how could the impounded chemicals sit for over half a decade in an unsafe warehouse before tragedy finally struck?
In Lebanon itself, the causes of the disaster appear to be tied to bureaucratic ineptitude. Just two weeks before the warehouse exploded, Lebanon’s president received an urgent report from the country’s security services warning him that the situation was critically dangerous.
The international side of the affair, on the other hand, quickly became lost in a maze of corporate and financial intrigue. Igor Grechushkin, the Russian man variously described as the owner or the operator of the Moldovan-flagged MV Rhosus, is said to have abandoned the vessel in Lebanon after declaring bankruptcy. The vessel’s deadly cargo had been purchased from the country of Georgia by a Mozambican firm that produces commercial explosives, via a British middleman trading firm linked to Ukraine.
The ownership of the Rhosus, and the companies that ordered the nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate to be transported halfway around the world in a rickety ship, are obscured by layers of secrecy that have stymied journalists and officials at every turn. Even the Lebanese government does not appear to know who actually owned the ship.
(Excerpt) Read more at occrp.org ...
[ are obscured by layers of secrecy ]
I am unaware of such an operation. If such an operation truly did exist, I would not be disposed to talk about it.
The source - OCCRP-is a Soros-backed website.
Every page of the OCCRP website features the same bottom section listing the icons of four of the organization’s top funders, including Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Indeed, OCCRP provides a hyperlink to the webpage for Soros’s Open Society at the bottom left corner of every page on OCCRP’s own website.
[British middleman trading firm linked to Ukraine.]
“It’s called ‘a scam’ old boy” - “The Doomsday Gun”
(not the exact video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu7trHtyOkQ
Good catch!
Thanks. I was sure another brilliant FReeper would have some info.
It was being used to attack and kill Israelis.
Follow the money...
Beirut big bang
demurrage - a charge payable to the owner of a chartered ship in respect of failure to load or discharge the ship within the time agreed.
Someone was paying rent on that space in the warehouse. Where are the auditors?
Every page of the OCCRP website features the same bottom section listing the icons of four of the organization’s top funders, including Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The more you look around the USAID looks like it’s in bed with soros open society fronts
It was not just “ammonium nitrite fertilizer,” based on the red cloud, as anybody versed in these matters already knows.
Bfl
[I am unaware of such an operation. If such an operation truly did exist, I would not be disposed to talk about it.]
(clears throat) Sir, I am unaware of any such operation. Nor would I be disposed to talk about it, if it indeed in fact exist.
(been a couple of weeks since I watched that clip)
hank you. The threads run deep, don’t they?
Now, about that next rickety ship that pulls into US waters and heads up the Hudson River - Before docking, how can it be inspected for 15,000 tons of fertilizer + 15,000 tons of fuel oil. And one detonator in the bottom.
I know nothing really about law but this statement keeps popping up and it bothers me because it seems we are all being lied to about this. Im having a really hard time believing that there arent laws in every country that cover this. Doesnt it seem like any ship "abandoned" in any countrys port would immediately become the property of that state? If I were in league with the Chinese then I could just park a couple of tanker bombs in the port of some big American city and "abandon" them until the time was right? Would Russia, China, Germany, or England put up with something like that if I parked my bomb there?
I’ve been expecting a nuclear weapon in the cargo of s ship, brought near a port of an America city since 9/11/2001. /adjusts tinfoil hat
Liquified natural gas. BIG BOOM!
Watch out for dump trucks heading to the harbor.
And guys each carrying a roll of quarters. On the lift. Hoping for it to rain like dogs and cats.
Oh, and a refrigerator that shows the temperature, but isn’t plugged in. /mostly joking.
Mostly.
What was the lottery last night? 6991?
Thanks RACPE.
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