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On 8/11/2020 at 11:28 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

I don't think its really an air pollutant to be concerned about however. Its pretty reactive, so it wouldn't take too long before even that mushroom cloud would disperse and react to form ozone or whatever.

Maybe environmentalists set it off to replenish the ozone layer

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NYTimes put together another one of their fantastic visual storyboards on the explosion. There's one part where they breakdown the explosion as it occurred frame-by-frame, as well as a incredible survey of the damage on one apartment tower. Also included are a few more key details on how fucked up the situation was in that warehouse and the level of corruption that allowed it.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/09/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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crash_davis

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there were articles and reports after the explosion about the possibility of hezbollah shipping that fertilizer bomb making material across Europe. there was an article about a London bust capturing tons of ammonium nitrate. i'm too lazy to find those articles.

anyway, it's reported that fertilizer had been there sitting quarantined in that warehouse for 6 years. well if it was quarantined and wasn't being used, then why did the warehouse doors need to be fixed?

I want the truth!

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found one of the articles.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/08/06/Hezbollah-affiliates-stored-ammonium-nitrate-in-northwest-London-Cyprus-Report

 

Hezbollah ammonium nitrate stocks in London, Cyprus

Stocks of ammonium nitrate linked to Hezbollah have been discovered in the UK and Cyprus.

According to the Telegraph, the UK’s MI5 and the Metropolitan Police found three metric tons of ammonium nitrate in northwest London in autumn 2015, after raiding properties belonging to “radicals linked to Hezbollah.”

A man in his 40s was arrested but later released, said the Telegraph, after a tip-off from a foreign government.

The material had reportedly been stored in ice packs, which “provide the perfect cover” because they are easy to transport and hard to prove that they are used for explosives, according to a source who spoke to the Telegraph.

In a similar case, a Hezbollah member was caught with more than 65,000 ice packs in Cyprus.

Hussein Bassam Abdallah, a dual Lebanese and Canadian national, was arrested by police in Cyprus in 2015 and admitted he was a member of Hezbollah’s wing during interrogation, reported the Telegraph.

“Abdallah said the 8.2 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored was for terrorist attacks. He pleaded guilty and was given a six-year prison sentence in June 2015,” added the paper.

He was reportedly also found with a forged British passport, suggesting that he may have been linked to the UK case.

 

 

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well, this is not suspicious at all. 

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/huge-explosions-rock-jordan-zarqa-casualties-reported-200911044813762.html

Huge explosions rock Jordan's Zarqa, no casualties reported

Authorities say the explosions occurred at a military warehouse where ''unuseable' mortar bombs were being dismantled.

No injuries have been recorded so far, he said, adding that initial investigations show "the explosion was caused by an electric circuit in army ammunition depots that are in an isolated and unpopulated area and under camera surveillance".

However, an army source told Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity that some of the weapons at the site were precision-guided anti-aircraft missiles.

Jordan's army acknowledged that there had been an explosion "in one of the ammunition depots which is being dismantled near the city of Zarqa".

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