2020-08-05 at 4:03 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
doubt it, initial estimates are a bit under 100
2020-08-05 at 4:14 AM UTC
Israel denying involvement with increased tensions between Israel and Lebanon.
Looks a bit fishy, but knowing how cia/mi5/mossad operates, along with the stupidity of most people, they could've simply gotten Intel that the shit was at critical mass and therefore capable of detonation through combustion without a shockwave.
Use others mistakes against them.
2020-08-05 at 4:17 AM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
Originally posted by Technologist
There’s gonna be a million reasons why people think this happened, and we still may never know what actually happened.
The news I’ve seen thus far said it wasn’t terrorism, but that it had to do with some form of corruption. That amount of those chemicals should have never been kept in a city.
It was Mossad...
The explosions coincide with mounting tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, which maintains a facility at the port and has long been accused by U.S. officials of using it to smuggle weapons into the country. The incident follows a spate of mysterious blasts at Shiite militia weapon-storage sites in Iraq last year, which Iraqi and Israeli officials have said Israel was responsible for, and more recently a string of explosions at military sites and sensitive locations in Iran, which regional intelligence officials have said Israel, at least in part, was behind.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/major-explosion-rocks-beirut/2020/08/04/53ff4dd6-d666-11ea-a788-2ce86ce81129_story.html
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2020-08-05 at 4:20 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
LOL wtf it was 2750 pouns of ammonium nitrate and had been stored that way for 6 years
yeah, definitely possible someone took advantage of the situation
2020-08-05 at 4:45 AM UTC
Dregs
African Astronaut
[that freakishly double-edged allmouth]
Tony May, a former explosives investigator for the US Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, told CNN that video of the blast in Beirut offers important clues to what happened.
"I've done a lot of accident investigations with the government, both national and international, and it is clear to me that this was a large amount of explosives or energetic material stored in a building that caught fire and that fire propagated to the explosives, causing the accident," said May, who now works as a security and explosives consultant.
No yellow smoke: May said when he was in Baghdad, the telltale sign of an ammonium nitrate explosive was a yellow smoke cloud. The pink or red cloud that was seen, he said, was "not consistent with ammonium nitrate."
However, May said that doesn't necessarily mean ammonium nitrate wasn't involved. It could just mean there were "other items as well," he said.
White flashes: The white flashes seen in different parts of the video may indicate that smaller explosions were occurring in the lead-up to the large shockwave, May said.
So in this niggers opinion is wasn't A.N. fuck off. Oh wait...another "tragedy" that we'll never get the truth on
2020-08-05 at 5:01 AM UTC
Just noticed, the Texas City disaster happened roughly the same year cia was created along with Israel becoming a country. Weird
2020-08-05 at 6:26 AM UTC
Mysterious fires and explosions in Iran so far in 2020.
"Israel discovered that Iran and its Quds Force have been exploiting civilian maritime channels, and specifically the Port of Beirut," Danon said. "The Iranian regime is transferring weapons in various ways. They use commercial companies, mainly from Europe, to support Hezbollah and develop its missile program. Unfortunately, the port of Beirut has become Hezbollah's port," he lamented.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/23/the-port-of-beirut-has-become-hezbollahs-port-israeli-un-envoy-reveals/
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2020-08-05 at 6:36 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Yeah I was thinking of making a thread about that.
There were rumours that israel was trying to kick off a war before the US election because they didn't want to risk doing it if Trump was out of office, but I dismissed them as dumb because Biden is likely to be just as pro-israel as Trump is.
Given the scale of sabotage in Iran and the uptick in attacks on Syria, they do appear to be trying to provoke a response. If this was actually an attack and not an accident, it will be taken very seriously because the explosion destroyed a lot of food reserves and crippled the port where 80% or so of it comes into the country (Lebanon produces very little domestically). They were already suffering from shortages.
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2020-08-05 at 6:39 AM UTC
Number13
African Astronaut
[dispute my snotty-nosed seagull]
I saw on the news that Israel had said they definitely didn't do it which supposedly they don't do, according to the program ITV news at least.
A big ol coinkydink
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2020-08-05 at 6:42 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
I'd doubt there will be any conclusive evidence unless there are security cameras there that store data offsite. 1300 or so kilos of explosive do a good job of making evidence disappear
2020-08-05 at 8:47 AM UTC
Finally a real terrorist attack for once
