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Holy crap! This was a massive explosion caught on video. This page has a couple of videos from different locations. The shock wave is incredible, especially in the video that's lower down the page. As far as I know they haven't determined the cause yet.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/explos...capital-beirut
There are some videos and stories on YouTube as well.
Someone smoking in the shitters?
That sure doesn't look like a conventional explosion or accidental explosion.
The explosion happened in the port filled with shipping containers.
How many terrorists novels include shipping containers with bombs? Was it a shipping container intended for somewhere else or was Beirut it's destination...? One has to wonder.
A lot more than the 10 deaths the media is reporting. There are videos of trees laid over and cars tossed about like toys.
Damage is being reported 10km away from the explosion.
The color of the smoke reminded me of one time when a rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral and all the fuel was burning up.
Maybe a tanker in the port?
Sounds like a fireworks warehouse. In some videos, you can see the firecrackers going off before big kaboom
The airport 6 miles away is reporting a partial roof collapse. That would take a whole bunch of fireworks...
Big BadaBoom
I saw little spots of light (looked like camera flashes) inside the smoke prior to the explosion. After reading it was possibly related to a location where fireworks were stored it made sense seeing those flashes. But, yeah...that's a metric shit-ton of fireworks making a blast that big.
Fireworks on top maybe
A bomb plant on the bottom
a "bomb plant" or "A bomb" plant? [tinhat][tinhat][Flower]Quote:
Originally Posted by roberth
ETA: Before you get your flamethrowers out, I was just playing with the words...
Port of Beirut warehouse destroyed is what I see from various videos. I'm gonna guess somebody blew up some rockets used for terror. Ammunition going off before the rocket propellant ignites. Probably was a real nice stash of weapons.
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/hizballah.html
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Have they blamed Israel yet?[LOL]
Who knows what it was, but I wouldn't bet a penny that it was fireworks.
Fireworks storage places have gone up before. They have MANY more smaller explosions and even some that make it into the air and can clearly be seen as fireworks. They don't just all explode at the same moment sending a shockwave for miles. They carry on for a bit.
Flashes maybe small arms munitions popping off? I agree with bushmasterboy there.
That was either some sort of munitions depot or there was a large weapon of some sort.
I too have seen the reports that it was a weapons facility.
I've also seen some reports that there may have been some ballistic missile development going on at that location. <--- That sounds like something that could result in this sort of explosion.
Israel announced within minutes that it wasn't them..Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc45
People 150 miles away in Cyprus say they heard it.
He who smelt it dealt it?Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
Haha. Perhaps.Quote:
Originally Posted by CS1983
Apparently Hezbollah has supposedly quite a large rocket inventory. We will probably never get a accurate forensics report on this incident. I'm sure a good photo interpreter could calculate what the materials were, from the explosions crater. My personal opinion is these were rockets/missiles made in another country and arrived in Beirut by ship. I'm just glad they did not get deployed. The building next to the warehouse was grain silos with a capacity of 120,000 tons of grain. So besides the damage to the city, the largest supply of food is gone. The gold market reacted by pushing gold prices way over $2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fateh-110
https://missilethreat.csis.org/count...ocket-arsenal/
The vapor cloud is amazing.
Allegedly 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate were stored in close proximity to fireworks.
Ooops.
Watch how it tears apart the adjacent buildings (especially in the third video: https://i.imgur.com/12ipPDc.mp4). I don't understand how the person filming in the first video is still alive.
LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by crays
Maybe one of their wayward children touched off a Bic for his cigarette.
Last I checked, no gore, just some bloody people, so don't fear the link but don't browse elsewhere either. Lots of compilations of video's.
https://www.bestgore.com/murder/afte...eirut-lebanon/
No way in hell that was fireworks
If diesel leaked on the fertilizer it would sort of blow like that. But the orange mushroom cloud, rocket fuel. MSM is going to feed us BS. I'd say the rockets came from Russia, Iran or North Korea(China). The target was Israel. The owners were Hezbollah, 10% of Lebanons .gov
I would not be the least surprised if Iran has small(tactical) nuclear weapons. Gonna be a shit show now, big excuse for a Middle East war. Russia has always had a plan to invade Middle East oilfields since the start of the Cold War. Fertilizer, my ass!
https://www.livescience.com/6413-fer...ombs-work.html
Checkout the building on the right in this video. Gets shredded. So does the cameraman by the looks of it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ItsSkagg/...56921092431874
OuchQuote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
I'm amazed at some of the comments here. Everyone knows, or should know since ourmasters, erlying news agencies, um totally honest mainstream media tells us that the Lebanese people are absolutely non-violent, peaceful people and that the lies of Hezbollah are nothing more that some made up boogeyman by the right-wing conspiracy theorists.
This was nothing more than a simple fireworks factory (so these genteel people can celebrate) accidentally blowing up. If we've told you once, we've told you a million times that M80's are just too dangerous. In hindsight, putting the fireworks factory next to an ammonium nitrate storage plant (used solely for agricultural purposes) wasn't the best of ideas or planning.
Shheesh. Where do you people get your silly ideas.
[If you couldn't tell, this post was made dripping with sarcasm]
Well, they saw yellow/orange smoke from nitrogen dioxide in Texas City before that ship blew; possibly much bigger explosion than this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
That reddish-brown cloud reminds me of a nitrazine type of rocket fuel burning. Please don't hassle me about chemistry, my neural linkages aren't what they used to be.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycRVAcZC5R4
Maybe it was a Hezbollah fireworks factory. The kind they like to entertain the Israelis with.Quote:
Originally Posted by theGinsue
Chemical explosion in Henderson, NV. The big one starts at 4:30.
https://youtu.be/QJQlbLshax0?t=268
That NV was pretty darn big. That video led to another, first video here is supposedly 800 tons of ammonium nitrate that went up in a shipping yard in China.
https://youtu.be/u5SF4SlqNDQ
Only if they find an empty vest or two, scattered about the city.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
LIKEQuote:
Originally Posted by BPTactical
The shock wave creating a cloud as it moved away from the explosion was pretty impressive.
Reminded me of Pepcon 1988:
http://youtu.be/_KuGizBjDXo
Beat me to it before I could get 4 pages into this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
That first video is a closer seat to the entertainment than I'd want!Quote:
Originally Posted by CS1983
A 300 foot crater was made in the dock. Basically a big chunk is water again. That explains the white ball of the explosion. The white ball blast is seawater vaporized. If a tanker full of oil or LNG was there it would have been a much larger blast. As for the chemistry, a fuel has to be added to the ammonium nitrate to explode.
So the official story is the fireworks breached a fuel supply and flooded the ammonium nitrate? Hahaha
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Saw some nasty images of people killed by the overpressure. The death toll has to go much higher.