Dona Ferentes
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Beirut blast is Massive
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At least one Australian killed in the blast. Embassy staff are OK.
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Video footage impressive with shockwave
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Makes you wonder what sort of responsible government would have such a large quantity of explosives stored at a commercial city port.
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Responsible, in the Middle East ?
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Ammonium nitrate?
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It is a fertiliser, but also a high explosive.
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Confiscated explosives.
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Probably not as many Australians there as would we be normally, due to the virus lockdowns and limited international travel.
With the amount of Australians of Lebanese descent, in normal circumstances, I would guess many would travel there in our winter.
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Looks like it was much more than just ammonium nitrate.
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What a horrible thing for them to endure.
On top of everything else.
Imagine a nuclear weapon, easily 10* the force of this, for a small one...
Spare a thought for the firefighters and their families and friends who will never see them again.
Life literally shredded.
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Well it would take a lot of anfo, to make a bang that big.
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And how would the FO be introduced in this case. The fire looks like a diversion.
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Lets hope that this doesn't greater civil unres
Let's hope tensions don't escalate; not going to be easy for DFAT to get the embassy staff and Australian citizens out of Lebanon.
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A few days ago, there was a report on Beirut on the french tv, with covid restrictions in europe/middle east, the economy is in full collapse, inflation rampant, no more price in shops, changing too quickly:
parents feeding babies in bread soaked in water, no electricity unless you go thru a parallel network etc
This is not going to help and something as simple as replacing windows for 100s of thousands will not happen.
Last info i have is that a stockpile of seized weapons etc years of war supplies exploded
Let's have a thought for them.always had a good feeling on Lebanon and its people.a country too kind hosting palestinian refugees by the millions and ultimately wiped out by its kindness
A lesson
parents feeding babies in bread soaked in water, no electricity unless you go thru a parallel network etc
This is not going to help and something as simple as replacing windows for 100s of thousands will not happen.
Last info i have is that a stockpile of seized weapons etc years of war supplies exploded
Let's have a thought for them.always had a good feeling on Lebanon and its people.a country too kind hosting palestinian refugees by the millions and ultimately wiped out by its kindness
A lesson
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Loads of speculation on Beirut. Last radio report had the fertiliser, fireworks, Gas bottles in the list. Get a fire, and have one gas bottle pop and that'd set it off.
Ammonium nitrate was used by farmers to blow stumps when I was young.
Ammonium nitrate was used by farmers to blow stumps when I was young.
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The Tianjin explosion in China was 800T of ammonia nitrate.
Lebanon had 2700T stored.
Doesn't add up. The blast should have been much, much bigger.
Lebanon had 2700T stored.
Doesn't add up. The blast should have been much, much bigger.
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Maybe a ship in the harbour was carrying the fertilizer and had a fuel leak, that would be nasty and would make a bang.
Here is a report from CNN, suggests a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/...xplosion-ammonium-nitrate-intl-hnk/index.html
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Apparently the fertiliser had been there for years.
Have a suspicion the Mullahs & Hezbollah are on the receiving end of this.
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I actually looked at the Chinese explosion this morning and compared, Beirut is MUCH bigger and if you look, there are far less flame..so personally doubt it is fertiliser;
but explosion will differ based on compression: did it happen in a closed or open space etc
I think a bit too big to be the israelis
