View Full Version : Big Boom in Lebanon :[
A massive explosion at the docks.
There are a bunch POV video clips in the article.
Happenstance?? IDK
Prayers for the dead :[
MASSIVE Explosion Shakes Lebanon’s Capital Beirut
August 4, 2020
LEBANON — A large explosion rocked Lebanon’s capital Beirut Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread panic and extensive damage to the surrounding area.
According to witnesses, the blast hit at the city’s port. There was no immediate word on a possible number of casualties.
https://breaking911.com/massive-explosion-shakes-lebanons-capital-beirut/?fbclid=IwAR2JZowxiOlB4yd3efQkdXbwMRtmFnLg1jg3DFl7 6s6WRnNFiz99vIUTZso
https://www.facebook.com/TheBigPlantation/videos/1002765846820380/?t=32
After watching several of the POV vids, I suspect this was a cement or grain silo dust explosion.
frostfire
08-04-2020, 13:11
one POV was taken from out in the sea (sputnik YT channel) with several allahu comments, video already started prior to and pointed at the blast, and no surprise expression at all. Makes you go hmmmmm
Makes me wonder if it involved submerged maritime at the port area. That appears like a huge water vapor expansion in the beginning. I should have paid more attention to my post blast investigation class :boohoo
Still trying to piece the puzzle..
Looks like it was a cargo ship docked and unloading or one of the silos next to the dock.
There was one video clip from the East end of the dock area, inside the blast zone. You can see the white cloud appears then dissipates almost immediately. I think it was water vapor atomized(sic) by the concussion.
Some screen captures.
PS: Does anyone remember the color chart to match chemicals??
Been a lot of strange "activity" around middle eastern ports with explosions as of late...
I read somewhere else, it may have been stuff in storage taken from another ship awhile ago. Something about arms and stuff to hezbolah...however, by the looks of that explosion, it would have to be a whole lot of "stuff"...
I dont know shit about this but that explosion had to have been in the multiple kt range.
They're saying 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that was removed from a ship quite awhile ago. Ironically, I think that this may well go down as the largest urban explosion since Nagasaki, 75 years ago tomorrow.
Texas_Shooter
08-04-2020, 18:31
In one of the videos looking out towards the sea and to the right of the silos, you could see what appeared to be fireworks going off. Shortly (seconds later) the massive explosion happened.
https://youtu.be/CtuQEhTVxyw?t=3
Watch the video 15 seconds after where it starts for that view of the explosion. Look at the warehouse and what was happening over the roof of that warehouse.
It could be chemicals or canisters cooking off as well. It wouldn't be the first time that a fireworks facility or fireworks cooked off like that. Back in 2016 at the San Pablito Market fireworks explosion happened. https://youtu.be/jaLS2aFDxZw In the video you can see the same tell tale signs even through the smoke as you can see in the Beirut Video footage.
And then there's this: Netanyahu 2018 (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/flashback-netanyahu-warned-united-nations-iranian-missile-stockpiles-beirut-back-2018-video/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons)
Ret10Echo
08-04-2020, 21:35
Seems this might be more a Texas City than 9/11
Lack of safety standards and general stupid with unstable materials.
So it goes.
Seems this might be more a Texas City than 9/11
Lack of safety standards and general stupid with unstable materials.
So it goes.
I think you may have it, but it only takes a little outside influence with jihadis to get someone to become an ink-spot martyr??
Grabbed a couple more pictures this AM. Finally a POV from the East side of the dock area.
Definitely looks like a dock-side creator.
TOMAHAWK9521
08-05-2020, 08:50
It reminds me of the cache of ammonium nitrate that was detonated in Mosul in early 2008. The story we got was whoever was guarding the cache probably got spooked and hit the clacker when Iraqi police were kicking in the doors of a neighbor structure in search of "the usual suspects".
IIRC, the amount of ammonium nitrate that detonated was estimated to be up in a ridiculous number of tons and leveled a number of city blocks. Guys up in Mosul initially thought it was a Daisy Cutter. Like Beruit, it looked like a massive brown mushroom cloud. Among the wreckage in the blast zone was found an injured imam that the Iraqi police were looking for.
That is one big bada boom.
It will be interesting to see where this goes
Well, that's one technique to create more harbor space.
Maybe not the best but ........
Old Dog New Trick
08-05-2020, 09:49
JJ’s two pictures above needed some perspective.
Apparently I don’t the ability to attach a screenshot from Beirut. So go look at google maps to see the before landscape.
That's a big crater. It's hard to judge until you see the people standing at the edge of it.
JJ’s two pictures above needed some perspective.
Apparently I don’t the ability to attach a screenshot from Beirut. So go look at google maps to see the before landscape.
Couple more pics
After looking at these, I think the center mass was on the dock.
We will never know if it was an "accident" or someone became a jihadi martyr,,
UNLESS al Arabiya published his name? :munchin
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/08/05/Ammonium-nitrate-in-storage-facility-at-site-of-Port-of-Beirut-explosion-Minister.html
2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate
Ba Da BOOM
The Reaper
08-05-2020, 14:43
Shades of Texas City, Batman!
Interesting event.
Could have been the Iranians, or the Israelis. Or an accident.
Who does it harm the most and who stands to benefit most from it?
TR
TOMAHAWK9521
08-05-2020, 20:25
Certification, sometimes it's necessary.
Old Dog New Trick
08-05-2020, 21:13
Today in most places around the world and Japan is the 75th anniversary of dropping the bomb.
I hope for the Lebanese people this was just a terrible accident and not an escalation of regional conflict.
My dad used to send tourists to Beirut in the 70s when it was a jewel of the East. So sad...
Report this AM about a Russian ship that stopped in the port several years ago full fertilizer and being abandoned.
A Russian ship's cargo of dangerous ammonium nitrate was stranded in Beirut port for years, By Mary Ilyushina, Katie Polglase and Ali Younes, CNN, Updated 7:10 AM ET, Thu August 6, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/europe/lebanon-russian-ship-blast-intl/index.html
A fireworks warehouse next to 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate. Seems crazy until you remember what part of the world we are talking about. It was probably started by some dumb ass smoking or welding right next to all that stuff.
A fireworks warehouse next to 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate. Seems crazy until you remember what part of the world we are talking about. It was probably started by some dumb ass smoking or welding right next to all that stuff.
for that matter, it could have been someone smoking WHILE welding
Old Dog New Trick
08-06-2020, 10:56
for that matter, it could have been someone smoking WHILE welding
It was a self correcting error.
“Don’t bother running, you’ll just vaporize tired!”
Mustang Man
08-09-2020, 19:43
Shades of Texas City, Batman!
Interesting event.
Could have been the Iranians, or the Israelis. Or an accident.
Who does it harm the most and who stands to benefit most from it?
TR
The Chinese and Israelis, they've increasingly been collaborating in business. Assuming the explosion was a weapons/explosives cache, Israel gets its security and China can invest and develop in another port in the Mediterranean. China is now investing and profiting from the development of the Piraeus port in Athens (51% ownership of one of the biggest European ports!). Greece was in financial difficulty and China came, the same will probably happen in Lebanon. China has also been investing in Israeli ports, the Beirut explosion will be another opportunity to expand influence and profits in the Mediterranean.
Already, Shanghai International Port Group is building a new container port in Haifa, which some U.S. officials believe could be used to conduct surveillance on the U.S. 6th Fleet whenever it ports at a nearby Navy base. Chinese companies are building another Israeli port in Ashdod and a light rail project through the greater Tel Aviv area, which will run a few hundred yards from the Israeli military headquarters. Meanwhile, Chinese companies invested some $400 million in Israeli start-ups in 2018 and $243 million in 2019, according to IVC Data and Insights.
So far, Israel’s concern about strategic threats has been more limited to foes in the region: namely, the so-called Shiite crescent that runs through Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Even though China supports Iran, Beijing has never been viewed as a factor in the Middle East that could weigh against Israeli security interests.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/16/us-israel-china-deals/