Large explosion in Beirut - hundreds reported injured

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Ammonium nitrate in the warehouse is a very explosive thing.Such as West Fertilizer Company explosion In 2013.4.17 and Texas City disaster in 1947,Oppau explosion in 1921.The largest non nuclear explosions are basically ammonium nitrate explosions

[Nobel Hobos 2]

That's a fair point. But if the smaller explosion set off the bigger one ... (a) what set off the smaller explosion? and (b) why was there any noticeable delay between the first and second explosion?

Fireworks for the first explosion is kind of plausible. A rocket from the burning pile of fireworks flew into the stacked bags of Ammonium Nitrate, there being no walls in the way, and the pile which somehow got soaked in a oil, then detonated.

Or it could be Israel. Picking their moment to dispossess Lebanon of bomb-making material. Time will tell ... or as with my previous claim that Israel has nuclear weapons, time will not tell all that well at all. Israel is pretty slick.

Its pretty common knowlege that Israel has nuclear weapons lol. They dont even deny that anymore

Thankyou.

Do you also accept that the Israeli concept of "right to self defence" would encompass:
(a) Israel having a first-tier military including nuclear weapons "for self defence", and
(b) None of Israel's neighbours having the means to make IED's or missile warheads ... any such being proof of hostile intent?
?

[-Astoria-]

I've never had this happen in a Zoom call.

Translate, please.

[Cedoria]

It exploded twice.Even flour can explode in an enclosed space. Maybe some of them exploded first, and then caused a bigger explosion

That's a fair point. But if the smaller explosion set off the bigger one ... (a) what set off the smaller explosion? and (b) why was there any noticeable delay between the first and second explosion?

Fireworks for the first explosion is kind of plausible. A rocket from the burning pile of fireworks flew into the stacked bags of Ammonium Nitrate, there being no walls in the way, and the pile which somehow got soaked in a oil, then detonated.

Or it could be Israel. Picking their moment to dispossess Lebanon of bomb-making material. Time will tell ... or as with my previous claim that Israel has nuclear weapons, time will not tell all that well at all. Israel is pretty slick.

Nobody denies they've got nuclear weapons anymore. Though conspiracy theorists like to pretend that.

Regardless, it seems most likely it was a couple of stupid decisions that caused an accident when a fire started. If the stuff's been there since 2014 it could've happened on any day.


No reason to think it's a terrorist attack barring more information. if it were, I suspect the Lebanese authorities would've said already.

[Mestovakia]

I've never had this happen in a Zoom call.

Translate, please.

The woman he was talking to was in the path of the shockwave.

[The New California Republic]

I've never had this happen in a Zoom call.

Translate, please.

Watch the video. No translation needed...

[Big Jim P]

I saw several vids. That was on HELL of an explosion. The lack of an extremely bright initial flash is the only thing that keeps me from thinking "nuke".

If it did happen in a fireworks factory or warehouse, a fuel-air effect could explain it.

I am sure we will blame hezzbollah (sp?), while everyone else blames the U.S. or (more likely) Israel. In fact, Israel was the very first thing that came to my mind.

[Region of Dwipantara]

Considering the title, I assume the data hasn't been updated.

Holy shit. 300.000 people displaced, more than 4000 injured, more than a hundred dead, electrity is out.

The blast, so powerful it could be felt more than 150 miles away in Cyprus, leveled whole sections of the city near the port of Beirut, leaving nothing but twisted metal and debris for blocks in Beirut’s downtown business district.

The waterfront neighborhood normally full of restaurants and nightclubs was essentially flattened. A number of crowded residential neighborhoods in the city’s eastern and predominantly Christian half were also ravaged.

Nearly all the windows along one popular commercial strip had been blown out and the street was littered with glass, rubble and cars that had slammed into each other after the blast. The buildings that remained standing in the blast area looked as if they had been skinned, leaving only hulking skeletons.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytime ... n.amp.html

[Vassenor]

I saw several vids. That was on HELL of an explosion. The lack of an extremely bright initial flash is the only thing that keeps me from thinking "nuke".

If it did happen in a fireworks factory or warehouse, a fuel-air effect could explain it.

I am sure we will blame hezzbollah (sp?), while everyone else blames the U.S. or (more likely) Israel. In fact, Israel was the very first thing that came to my mind.

There was no evidence the explosion was an attack. Instead, many Lebanese blamed it on decades of corruption and poor governance by the entrenched political class that has ruled the tiny Mediterranean country since the civil war.

So no, they're not blaming the US or Israel.

[Vassenor]

Considering the title, I assume the data hasn't been updated.

Holy shit. 300.000 people displaced, more than 4000 injured, more than a hundred dead, electrity is out.

The blast, so powerful it could be felt more than 150 miles away in Cyprus, leveled whole sections of the city near the port of Beirut, leaving nothing but twisted metal and debris for blocks in Beirut’s downtown business district.

The waterfront neighborhood normally full of restaurants and nightclubs was essentially flattened. A number of crowded residential neighborhoods in the city’s eastern and predominantly Christian half were also ravaged.

Nearly all the windows along one popular commercial strip had been blown out and the street was littered with glass, rubble and cars that had slammed into each other after the blast. The buildings that remained standing in the blast area looked as if they had been skinned, leaving only hulking skeletons.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytime ... n.amp.html

300K made homeless in a city with a population in its metro area of just 2.2 million.

[-Astoria-]

Translate, please.

Watch the video. No translation needed...

I'm back, &...holy shit.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Considering the title, I assume the data hasn't been updated.

Holy shit. 300.000 people displaced, more than 4000 injured, more than a hundred dead, electrity is out.

300K made homeless in a city with a population in its metro area of just 2.2 million.

It's a hell of a place

[Region of Dwipantara]

So no, they're not blaming the US or Israel.

Already struggling with an economic collapse, a political crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, many in Lebanon demanded answers to serious questions: why such a dangerous cache of material was allowed to be stored at the port, who knew it was there and why nothing was done to better secure the site?

“As head of the government, I will not relax until we find the responsible party for what happened, hold it accountable and apply the most serious punishments against it,” Prime Minister Hassan Diab said.

Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s general security service, told the state-run news agency that “highly explosive materials” had been seized by the government years ago and were stored near the blast site. Although the possibility that the explosives had been intentionally set off was being probed, he warned against getting “ahead of the investigation” and speculating that it was a terrorist act.

Seems like at least for now, the Lebanese government also assumes that negligence is the primary suspect.

[State of Turelisa]

I saw several vids. That was on HELL of an explosion. The lack of an extremely bright initial flash is the only thing that keeps me from thinking "nuke".

If it did happen in a fireworks factory or warehouse, a fuel-air effect could explain it.

I am sure we will blame hezzbollah (sp?), while everyone else blames the U.S. or (more likely) Israel. In fact, Israel was the very first thing that came to my mind.

I'm certain the ignition of mass fireworks is the cause. In the videos which I've posted, there are fireworks to be seen exploding inside the plumes of smoke before the colossal explosion.

[The New California Republic]

I'm certain the ignition of mass fireworks is the cause. In the videos which I've posted, there are fireworks to be seen exploding inside the plumes of smoke before the colossal explosion.

No. This rumour needs to be nipped in the bud.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

300K made homeless in a city with a population in its metro area of just 2.2 million.

It's a hell of a place

It's a wonder they don't emig-- oh, right. A lot of them did.

[SD_Film Artists]

If these allegations are true, obscene bureaucracy was the culprit.

Written requests to judges pleaded for the AN to be either exported, donated to the Lebannese military or sold to a civil explosives company; the response was a resounding 'meh'.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/ ... 16684.html

[Vassenor]

I'm certain the ignition of mass fireworks is the cause. In the videos which I've posted, there are fireworks to be seen exploding inside the plumes of smoke before the colossal explosion.

No. This rumour needs to be nipped in the bud.

So what triggered the main explosion then if it wasn't the burning cache of fireworks?

[Region of Dwipantara]

That's a fair point. But if the smaller explosion set off the bigger one ... (a) what set off the smaller explosion? and (b) why was there any noticeable delay between the first and second explosion?

Fireworks for the first explosion is kind of plausible. A rocket from the burning pile of fireworks flew into the stacked bags of Ammonium Nitrate, there being no walls in the way, and the pile which somehow got soaked in a oil, then detonated.

Or it could be Israel. Picking their moment to dispossess Lebanon of bomb-making material. Time will tell ... or as with my previous claim that Israel has nuclear weapons, time will not tell all that well at all. Israel is pretty slick.

Its pretty common knowlege that Israel has nuclear weapons lol. They dont even deny that anymore

Nah, Israel officially adopt a policy of deliberate ambiguity. Although there had been some negligence to this doctrine over the years.

[The New California Republic]

I saw several vids. That was on HELL of an explosion.

Did you see the one filmed from a boat? It's the only one where you clearly see the clouds being dispersed by the blast. The only other place I have seen that happen is nuclear weapons tests.

[The New California Republic]

No. This rumour needs to be nipped in the bud.

So what triggered the main explosion then if it wasn't the burning cache of fireworks?

There could be a whole host of things in the warehouse, but saying this in its entirety was all fireworks exploding, as Turelisa is saying, doesn't fit with the statements that ammonium nitrate was being stored in the warehouse.

[SD_Film Artists]

So no, they're not blaming the US or Israel.

Trump is blaming someone, though who or why that is is a mystery. The only reason he gave was that his "great generals seemed to feel that it was" "Based on the explosion". So basically his generals nodded their heads at the vaguely attack-like nature of the blast and that means it's officially an attack.

https://youtu.be/eFKxlZq-mAQ

[Nobel Hobos 2]

I'm certain the ignition of mass fireworks is the cause. In the videos which I've posted, there are fireworks to be seen exploding inside the plumes of smoke before the colossal explosion.

No. This rumour needs to be nipped in the bud.

The bright sparks seemed like electrical discharge to me. Of course the video's not that good.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

So no, they're not blaming the US or Israel.

Trump is blaming someone, though who or why that is is a mystery. The only reason he gave was that his "great generals seemed to think that it was" "Based on the explosion". So basically his generals nodded their heads at the vaguely attack-like nature of the blast and that means it's officially an attack.

https://youtu.be/eFKxlZq-mAQ

Those dastardly international terrorists Black Lives Matter.

[Australian rePublic]

Poor Lebanon. I feel for them. As if there wasn't enough shit happening in that country. What else could go wrong this year? I shudder to think