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  • Lebanon incident
     OP - August 04, 2020, 06:10 PM

    One of many videos on social media - reports suggest it involves fireworks factory in beirut.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1290674216623366144
  • Lebanon incident
     Reply #1 - August 04, 2020, 06:30 PM

    https://mobile.twitter.com/timourazhari/status/1290710100697653248
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    Lebanon’s Interior Minister Mohammed Fehmi says that highly explosive ammonium nitrate was stored in the port and says the Lebanese people should ask Customs about why it was there



    Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/joeyayoub/status/1290670781920432129
  • Lebanon incident
     Reply #2 - August 04, 2020, 06:53 PM

    add govt negligence to the list and it's recipe for state implosion.

    Quote from:
    Lebanon is currently undergoing:
    a political crisis
    an economic collapse
    Covid Pandemic
    and now the port of Beirut and the grain stores have been destroyed.


    https://mobile.twitter.com/AbsoluteRecoil/status/1290718511812100097
  • Lebanon incident
     Reply #3 - August 05, 2020, 01:43 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrzCQBQ2hs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07_KdDdcVfM

    300,000 homeless, 100 dead and food stocks destroyed - latest news and video

    How come some one stores 3000 tons ammonium nitrate in a building close to the place for a long time?

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Lebanon incident
     Reply #4 - August 06, 2020, 05:14 AM

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    A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday's huge explosion, Lebanon's government says.

    The blast killed at least 135 people and injured more than 4,000 others. A two-week state of emergency has begun.

    President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse.

    Customs chief Badri Daher said his agency called for the chemical to be removed, but "this did not happen".

    "We leave it to the experts to determine the reasons," he said.


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    What triggered the explosion?
    The ammonium nitrate had reportedly been in a warehouse in Beirut port for six years after it was unloaded from a ship impounded in 2013.

    The head of Beirut port and the head of the customs authority both told local media that they had written to the judiciary several times asking that the chemical be exported or sold on to ensure port safety.

    Port General Manager Hassan Koraytem told OTV that they had been aware that the material was dangerous when a court first ordered it stored in the warehouse, "but not to this degree''.

    Lebanon's Supreme Defence Council has vowed that those found responsible will face the "maximum punishment" possible.

    Economy Minister Raoul Nehme told the BBC: "I think it is incompetence and really bad management and there are a lot of responsibilities from management and probably previous governments. We do not intend after such an explosion to stay silent on who is responsible for what."

    House arrest would apply for all port officials "who have handled the affairs of storing [the] ammonium nitrate, guarding it and handling its paperwork" since June 2014, Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad said.

    The ammonium nitrate arrived on a Moldovan-flagged ship, the Rhosus, which entered Beirut port after suffering technical problems during its voyage from Georgia to Mozambique, according to Shiparrested.com, which deals with shipping-related legal cases.

    The Rhosus was inspected, banned from leaving and was shortly afterwards abandoned by its owners, sparking several legal claims. Its cargo was stored in a port warehouse for safety reasons, the report said.


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53670839
  • Lebanon incident
     Reply #5 - August 06, 2020, 04:15 PM

    Beirut blast: Tracing the explosives that tore the capital apart

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    Beirut, Lebanon - It was only after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut that most people in Lebanon learned about the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar at the city's port. The detonation of the material - used in bombs and fertilisers - sent shockwaves through the Lebanese capital, killing scores of people, injuring thousands, and leaving much of the city a mangled mess.  Analysis of public records and documents published online show senior Lebanese officials knew for more than six years that the ammonium nitrate was stored in Hangar 12 of Beirut's port. And they were well aware of the dangers it posed.

    The cargo of ammonium nitrate arrived in Lebanon in September 2013, on board a Russian-owned cargo vessel flying a Moldovan Flag. The Rhosus, according to information from the ship-tracking site, Fleetmon, was heading from Georgia to Mozambique.

    It was forced to dock in Beirut after facing technical problems at sea, according to (PDF) lawyers representing the boat's crew. But Lebanese officials prevented the vessel from sailing, and eventually, it was abandoned by its owners and crew - information partially corroborated by Fleetmon.

    The ship's dangerous cargo was then offloaded and placed in Hangar 12 of Beirut port, a large grey structure facing the country's main north-south highway at the main entrance to the capital.

    Months later, on June 27, 2014, then-director of Lebanese Customs Shafik Merhi sent a letter addressed to an unnamed "Urgent Matters judge", asking for a solution to the cargo, according to documents shared online.

    Customs officials sent at least five more letters over the next three years - on December 5, 2014, May 6, 2015, May 20, 2016, October 13, 2016, and October 27, 2017 - asking for guidance and warning that the material posed a danger, Badri Daher, the current director of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI on Wednesday.

    They proposed three options: Export the ammonium nitrate, hand it over to the Lebanese Army, or sell it to the privately-owned Lebanese Explosives Company.......
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    Customs officials sent at least five more letters over the next three years - on December 5, 2014, May 6, 2015, May 20, 2016, October 13, 2016, and October 27, 2017 - asking for guidance and warning that the material posed a danger, Badri Daher, the current director of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI on Wednesday.

    They proposed three options: Export the ammonium nitrate, hand it over to the Lebanese Army, or sell it to the privately-owned Lebanese Explosives Company.....


    it is strange .. ship abandoned and chemical left there is stored   .. FOR WHAT?? .....no one cares about the letters  So the question is who are they and why are they storing that large amount of Ammonium Nitrate  there that killed around 135 innocents and wounded  as many as 5,000 ??


    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • Lebanon incident
     Reply #6 - August 08, 2020, 09:21 PM

    Thread on today’s protests: https://mobile.twitter.com/joeyayoub/status/1292180263506710531
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