Beirut fireworks storage explodes

[Phil C. McNasty]

Beirut fireworks storage explodes. I call bullshit though, I bet any money it was Israel.

Story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital

 

[Twister]

Beirut fireworks storage explodes. I call bullshit though, I bet any money it was Israel.

Story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital

I doubt those are fireworks, I think they would go off in a different way and you would see rockets and flares going off all over the place. They said there was also a depot of benzene (highly inflammable) in the area.

 

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Ignore the twitter comments just more video showing the explosion from different angles.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290718820580167680

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290679335616237568

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290737869104062469

 

[Ubersense]

It looked like a series of smaller explosions that led to a fire and caused deflagration. The colour of the initial explosive seems to be a clue.

 

[mandrill]

Guys on Twitter shit-posting after watching that video. One "expert" claimed that you couldn't build a bomb out of fertilizer, as someone had claimed.

Irish guy told him to fuck off and said he was "insulting Irish cultural tradition". (A number of very case-specific IRA references followed).

 

[downbound123]

Guys on Twitter shit-posting after watching that video. One "expert" claimed that you couldn't build a bomb out of fertilizer, as someone had claimed.

Irish guy told him to fuck off and said he was "insulting Irish cultural tradition". (A number of very case-specific IRA references followed).

Oklahoma City bomb was fertilizer....

 

[mandrill]

Oklahoma City bomb was fertilizer....

Also fully discussed.

The current spec is that some genius in Beirut Harbour stockpiled the Middle East's entire nitrate fertilizer reserve right next door to the Middle East's biggest storage facility for fireworks because what could possibly go wrong...

 

[The Oracle]

Also fully discussed.

The current spec is that some genius in Beirut Harbour stockpiled the Middle East's entire nitrate fertilizer reserve right next door to the Middle East's biggest storage facility for fireworks because what could possibly go wrong...

If true that is just insane........

 

[downbound123]

what could possibly go wrong...

I think a guy named Murphy provided the answer to that question

 

[Indiana]

Great idea for a storage location

 

[shack]

Beirut fireworks storage explodes. I call bullshit though, I bet any money it was Israel.

Israel would have already been blamed.

 

[jcpro]

Whatever it was it was not fireworks or fuel storage. The pressure wave and the color suggests nitrates based explosion. We'll know soon enough. Can't hide something this big.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

No way was that just fireworks. This is the most likely explanation.
Either Israeli's blew it up because they saw it as a threat, or it was an accident

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290674948705587200

 

[kstanb]

always check belingcat in these occasions

What Just Blew Up In Beirut? - bellingcat

Shortly before 6 PM Beirut time reports began flooding Twitter of a fire and a series of explosions in Beirut. It rapidly became evident that event was far more than a small industrial fire. Shortly after, videos and images of a vast explosion flooded onto social media. The video below is a...

www.bellingcat.com

 

[mandrill]

Whatever it was it was not fireworks or fuel storage. The pressure wave and the color suggests nitrates based explosion. We'll know soon enough. Can't hide something this big.

One of the amateur videos clearly showed fireworks going off before the larger, second explosion.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

One of the amateur videos clearly showed fireworks going off before the larger, second explosion.

Bullets can look similar to firecrackers when they explode in a fire

 

[Valcazar]

always check belingcat in these occasions

What Just Blew Up In Beirut? - bellingcat

Shortly before 6 PM Beirut time reports began flooding Twitter of a fire and a series of explosions in Beirut. It rapidly became evident that event was far more than a small industrial fire. Shortly after, videos and images of a vast explosion flooded onto social media. The video below is a...

www.bellingcat.com

Excellent advice.

We're going to have a couple of days of everyone on social media suddenly becoming an explosives expert.
Ignore them and see how it shakes out.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Article from 2018

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-n

etanyahu-addresses-2018-un-general-assembly-1.6512874

 

[mandrill]

Bullets can look similar to firecrackers when they explode in a fire

No, Phil. Just no.

 

[basketcase]

Lebanese PM suggested the warehouse was storing masses of ammonium nitrate.

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