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04-08-2020, 08:07 PM
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Huge explosion in Lebanese port

A large blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has caused widespread damage and injured hundreds of people, the Lebanese Red Cross says.

It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port region. Videos posted online showed a column of smoke followed by a large mushroom cloud.

Hospitals are said to be overwhelmed and many buildings have been destroyed.

Lebanon's internal security chief said the blast happened in an area housing highly explosive materials.

A BBC journalist at the scene reported dead bodies and severe damage, enough to put the port out of action. Reuters news agency quotes sources as saying 10 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage.

The explosion comes at a sensitive time for Lebanon, with an unprecedented economic crisis reigniting old divisions. Tensions are also high ahead of Friday's verdict in a trial over the killing of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

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One of the very first journalists who reported on Al jazeera stated that she was watching television and went to her window when she heard a plane or jet hovering overhead, later in her report she said there had been jets hovering around for the last few weeks ! Her apartment was blown to smitherines, I have listened to her report three times now, making sure I heard correctly what she said. There have been other reports from people in the hills above Beiruit also saying they heard jets before and after the explosion.
Another reporter said it housed Ammonium Nitrate , which I think would explain the pink colour.
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Yes, I saw that on the news, really dreadful. We await to see what caused it.
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Been watching it on the news .... hospitals are having to turn the injured away.
The explosion looked pretty devastating.
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That was some blast.....
But I wonder why such large amounts of explosives were stored so close to the city and heavily populated areas......
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Originally Posted by Puddle Duck ->
One of the very first journalists who reported on Al jazeera stated that she was watching television and went to her window when she heard a plane or jet hovering overhead, later in her report she said there had been jets hovering around for the last few weeks ! Her apartment was blown to smitherines, I have listened to her report three times now, making sure I heard correctly what she said. There have been other reports from people in the hills above Beiruit also saying they heard jets before and after the explosion.
Another reporter said it housed Ammonium Nitrate , which I think would explain the pink colour.
Ammonium Nitrate eh?

Oh well, that's a good few car bombs that won't be going pop, but that explosion, or rather those explosions - I've seen the videos - they were HE - not low velocity stuff.

As for jets, if it were an air strike it must have been based on very good intel. If it were an incursion same applies. If home grown then still very good intel and a very competent individual or group.
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Origianally for use to produce fertilizer, but as that was declared illegal, it got stuck in the warehouse on the docks because the legal process to send it back to where it came from has so far taken 6 yrs.
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Origianally for use to produce fertilizer, but as that was declared illegal, it got stuck in the warehouse on the docks because the legal process to send it back to where it came from has so far taken 6 yrs.
Wouldn't that be 'Potassium Nitrate' Puddle Duck'? One of the main ingredients of black powder, together with sulphur and charcoal....Made loads of the stuff in the past.....
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Wouldn't that be 'Potassium Nitrate' Puddle Duck'? One of the main ingredients of black powder, together with sulphur and charcoal....Made loads of the stuff in the past.....
Ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer that was widely used by the fenien filth aka IRA, Provo's etc to make car bombs in Ulster in order to kill and maim British people in their home land.

Mixed with ****** it is a slow burn low yield explosive that has to be triggered by a HE initiator that is set off by a very fast detonator.
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger ->
Ammonium Nitrate eh?

Oh well, that's a good few car bombs that won't be going pop, but that explosion, or rather those explosions - I've seen the videos - they were HE - not low velocity stuff.

As for jets, if it were an air strike it must have been based on very good intel. If it were an incursion same applies. If home grown then still very good intel and a very competent individual or group.
Has all the hallmarks of a super efficient Israeli pre-emptive strike
hasnt it then Todgy??
Very effective if so as it sets lebanon back several years now and
increases inter arab tensions as well, as if they needed increasing
at the moment
! But you must have noticed that there was allready a largeish fire
burning BEFORE the explosion took place, so it looks more likely
to be an accident due to negligence imo?

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