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Beirut
« on: August 04, 2020, 11:18:07 AM »


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Re: Beirut
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2020, 11:45:43 AM »
I've seen like 5 different angles of the fireworks mushroom cloud and that's just crazy.
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Re: Beirut
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2020, 02:04:51 PM »
like tianjin. it's nuts.

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2020, 02:14:19 PM »
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Re: Beirut
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2020, 02:29:26 PM »
 some are suggesting that it is potentially a Hezbollah arms depot that erupted.


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Re: Beirut
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2020, 02:35:47 PM »
keeping an arms depot next to/on a harbor would be like a super galaxy brain idea.

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2020, 02:50:05 PM »
Supposedly "seized" AN is one narrative.

Lots of criticism of storage and lack of security and oversight. 


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Re: Beirut
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2020, 02:54:14 PM »
keeping an arms depot next to/on a harbor would be like a super galaxy brain idea.

Hezbollah has long been accused of maintaining arms stores in Urban settings. 

Port location would be efficient logistically.

If eliminated by a state actor this could get interesting.


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Re: Beirut
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2020, 03:15:14 PM »
keeping an arms depot next to/on a harbor would be like a super galaxy brain idea.

Hezbollah has long been accused of maintaining arms stores in Urban settings. 

Port location would be efficient logistically.

If eliminated by a state actor this could get interesting.

I wouldn't disagree with this but it sure would be dumb to try and defend that spot considering they really don't have much of a navy

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2020, 03:28:58 PM »
keeping an arms depot next to/on a harbor would be like a super galaxy brain idea.

Hezbollah has long been accused of maintaining arms stores in Urban settings. 

Port location would be efficient logistically.

If eliminated by a state actor this could get interesting.

I wouldn't disagree with this but it sure would be dumb to try and defend that spot considering they really don't have much of a navy
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Re: Beirut
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2020, 04:13:43 PM »
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The cause of the explosions was not immediately known but a top official, General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, said confiscated explosive materials had been stored at the city's port.

"It appears that there is a warehouse containing material that was confiscated years ago, and it appears that it was highly explosive material," he said.

Whatever was in the warehouse was "apparently explosive", folks

That was incredible footage of the blast wave moving out from the explosion

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2020, 04:16:40 PM »
There has to be hundreds dead right?

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2020, 04:17:48 PM »
Initial reports say 30.

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2020, 04:41:23 PM »
This one brought me into the pit....wowza.  What can even make an explosion that big in that small of a storage area?

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2020, 04:49:20 PM »
Initial reports say 30.
AP is now reporting 60 but I don't see how it could be less than 100's with the amount of debris and the size of that blast wave.
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Re: Beirut
« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2020, 04:53:33 PM »
This one brought me into the pit....wowza.  What can even make an explosion that big in that small of a storage area?
Fertilizer. Murrow Building in OKC came to mind when I saw the initial reports and blast videos.

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2020, 04:56:26 PM »
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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that those responsible for an explosion at a “dangerous” warehouse in Beirut port area that rocked the capital would pay the price.

“I promise you that this catastrophe will not pass without accountability. ... Those responsible will pay the price,” he said in a televised speech. “Facts about this dangerous warehouse that has been there since 2014 will be announced and I will not preempt the investigations”.

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2020, 04:57:49 PM »
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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that those responsible for an explosion at a “dangerous” warehouse in Beirut port area that rocked the capital would pay the price.

“I promise you that this catastrophe will not pass without accountability. ... Those responsible will pay the price,” he said in a televised speech. “Facts about this dangerous warehouse that has been there since 2014 will be announced and I will not preempt the investigations”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-primeminsiter/lebanon-pm-says-those-responsible-for-beirut-explosion-will-pay-the-price-idUSKCN2502M3

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Re: Beirut
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Re: Beirut
« Reply #19 on: August 04, 2020, 05:15:05 PM »
2020 really is the year where it would be best to eliminate murphy's law type things if possible. 

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #20 on: August 04, 2020, 05:19:51 PM »
It is easily the largest non-atomic explosion I've ever seen on film. Just insane.

I agree it has to be something like ammonia nitrate or the like, I would imagine munitions would more explode in waves, not all at once. Like OKC was just a ryder truck of that crap, that is like silos of it.

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Re: Beirut
« Reply #21 on: August 04, 2020, 05:30:06 PM »
OKC was 2.5 tons compared to 2750 tons.


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Re: Beirut
« Reply #22 on: August 04, 2020, 05:33:07 PM »
OKC was 2.5 tons compared to 2750 tons.


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Yeah just read that (finally have a little time to catch up). Makes sense on the literal several orders of magnitude difference
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Re: Beirut
« Reply #23 on: August 05, 2020, 06:33:45 AM »
Just catching up on the videos, holy god.

I am trying to learn from this as I am 100% the person that would have my face glued to the window watching the explosion.

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« Reply #24 on: August 05, 2020, 07:08:34 AM »
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